Nour El-Refai
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Nour El-Refai in 2014
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| Born | 14 November 1987 |
| Occupation | Television presenter, comedian, actress |
Nour El-Refai (born 14 November 1987) is a Swedish actress and comedian. She became known for her participation in the candid-camera show Raj Raj in 2007 and hosted Melodifestivalen 2014. El-Refai has also appeared in several movies such as Kronjuvelerna and Johan Falk: Spelets regler.
El-Refai was born in Lebanon and her family moved to Sweden to live in Eslöv just a few months after her birth. She is of Syrian and Lebanese heritage. Her family moved a few years later to Norra Fäladen in Lund. She grew up in a single parent family with her mother, as her father left after a divorce just weeks after the arrival of the El-Refai family in Sweden. Nour has had no contact with her father since.
El-Refai today lives in Traneberg, .
El-Refai was the victim of a sexual assault just before the start her television career. The man who assaulted her was later sentenced to four months imprisonment.
El-Refai first came into prominence in 2006, when she had a role in the crime drama movie Beck – Det tysta skriket.
Along with Cecilia Forss she hosted the candid-camera show, Raj Raj, which was broadcast on TV400 during 2007. In one notorious segment, she flashed her breasts to a man in Humlegården, which is famed for male flashers, and she was reported to the police. Charges were pressed and later she was sentenced to pay a fine for indecent exposure. El-Refai and Forss had cooperated previously in the TV3 humour show Hus i helvete.
In 2008, El-Refai was assigned as a reporter on stage for the Melodifestivalen 2008; the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. She interviewed the singers after they went off stage following their performances. During the same year, she acted in the Morgonsoffan television show also on SVT. She acted in the Henrik Schyffert comedy show Sverige Pussas och Kramas on Kanal5.
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