Sylvana Simons

Sylvana Simons
Sylvana Simons speaking at De Balie, Amsterdam
Born	Silvana Hildegard Simons (1971-01-31) January 31, 1971 (age 46) Paramaribo, Suriname
Occupation	Politician, actor, and television personality
Known for	Founder of Artikel 1

Silvana Hildegard "Sylvana" Simons (born 31 January 1971) is a Dutch politician, actress and television presenter. In December 2016 she founded the political party Artikel 1.

Simons grew up in Hoorn, Netherlands, and studied at the and a barber school, worked as a dancer for singer CB Milton and then mainly concentrated on radio and TV. In December 2016 she founded the Dutch political party Artikel 1.

In 1995, she began her television career as a VJ on MTV. There she presented a soul and R & B program. In 1999 she moved to SBS 6 where she presented The Bus and Sexquiz on the Beach. In 2000 she moved to RTL 4 where she presented a large number of programs. After Char had been taken off the air, Sylvana had no more new programs on RTL. They then made two programs for the NPS, Sylvana's Choice (2009-2010) and Sylvana (2010).

In 2005, she played a supporting role in the film Zoop in Africa.

In 2012 she was a participant in the AVRO-program Strictly Dancing, where she lost in the final against . From 2012 she has been seen occasionally on De Wereld Draait Door.

In 2015 she once presented the B2B-program Een Zaak Van De Gemeente on RTL7.

At Radio 538 she had a talk show on Sunday afternoons from 1999 to 2001 and was heard every Friday at Noordzee FM with the program Sylvana en Sylvana’s Soul. In 2009 and 2010 she presented every weekday from 14:00 to 16:00 on the radio program Sylvana's Choice on NPS Radio 6. A television program was also made under the same name. The program was restarted in 2015 but then stopped in 2016 when NPO Radio 6 stopped broadcasting. Sylvana presented a program in February of that year on Sublime FM.