Kristin Kaspersen

Kristin Kaspersen
Kaspersen in 2008
Born	30 September 1969 Oslo, Norway
Occupation	Television host

Kristin Kaspersen (born 30 September 1969 in Oslo) is a Swedish-Norwegian television host who is working for the Swedish media company TV4 Group, which is the owner of the television channel TV4. She is the daughter of Lill-Babs and Kjell Kaspersen and was raised in Stockholm. Kaspersen began her television career in the early 1990s after completing an internship on one of Robert Aschberg's programs. She has hosted many popular television shows since then, and is "one of Sweden's famous television faces" according to a 2009 article in Sydsvenskan. Kaspersen is one of the hosts of Nyhetsmorgon on TV4.

Kaspersen was born in Oslo, Norway, and is the daughter of Swedish singer and actress Lill-Babs and Norwegian football goalkeeper Kjell Kaspersen. She grew up in with her mother, but often visited her father in Oslo during her free time. Kaspersen made her first acting performance when she was eleven years old. She appeared in the musical Pippi Långstrump (based on ) at the theater Folkan in Stockholm alongside her older sister Malin Berghagen. Several more appearances in musicals followed in the next few years. In 1988, Kaspersen graduated from a gymnasium in Ljusdal. She worked as a bartender and a waitress in Stockholm and Oslo after her school years, as well as a flight attendant.

Between 1990 and 1991, Kaspersen was an intern at Robert Aschberg's television show Ikväll (aired on TV3). This led to a career in television, and she soon got a job as a weather girl on TV3 in Norway. Her debut as a television host came in 1992 with the Swedish show Station Åre (aired on ZTV), which she appeared on until 1993. In 1993, she hosted Sommar på Gröna Lund on TV4. As a result, she was awarded the "Lennart Hyland-prize" for "Sweden's most popular TV-personality" (becoming the youngest person to ever receive that award).