Malin Akerman: Hollywood Actress Turned Eurovision Host – Everything You Need to Know

Swedish-Canadian Malin Akerman is one of those actresses who has played enough roles to know her face, but never got big enough to remember her name. However, she was often standing next to stars that you already know. Enter Stiller The heartbroken child (2007) for example, or Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in The proposal (2009). She was a strange sister 27 clothes, the 2008 romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl. In Couples escape since 2009 she played Vince Vaughn’s love interest. The same year she was in the movie Watchmen.

Thanks to her blonde look bomb and her comedic talent, Malin fits perfectly into the romantic comedy genre, which was very popular at the turn of the century. After 2010, the romcom fell into decline. Akerman continued to work widely, in the US and occasionally in Sweden, but she was unable to add any more feature films to her credit. In recent years she has performed in smaller but also more ‘dramatic’ productions. “Humor was a mask,” she says of the beginning of her career. “It was time to call it off.”

Completely bilingual

This week Akerman returns to the public as the presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö. She was born almost 46 years ago – her birthday is Sunday – in Stockholm. Both her parents are Swedish. When she was two years old, her father got a job offer in Canada and the family moved there. Four years later the Akermans separated and Malin’s father returned to Sweden. She stayed in Canada with her mother. Because she was raised in Swedish and lives in a country where English is spoken, the presenter is fluent in both languages. She also speaks French and Spanish.

As a seventeen-year-old, Akerman won a modeling competition in Canada. At that time she was already on her own two feet, she says in an interview, because she left her mother’s house at the age of sixteen, who had mental problems. As a model, Akerman starred in commercials. That’s how she got the idea to start acting. She moved to Los Angeles, where she made progress after several difficult years. She had her first named role in the thriller The circle in 2002.

The actress married drummer Roberto Zincone from the band Petalstones in 2007. They met when she sang with the band. The couple had a son Sebastian together in 2013, but they separated a few months later. Today the Eurovision host married actor Jack Donnelly. He is famous for his role in the BBC series Atlantis. Malin and Jack have done several TV movies together in recent years, such as A week in Paradise (2022) in Friends (2020). They live with her son in Los Angeles. However, for the actress, the area around Malmö, where the Eurovision Song Contest takes place, is a familiar area. Her father lives in Falstenbro, half an hour’s drive from Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city.

Malin will be seen again at the Petra Mede side on Thursday and Saturday. The women will then present the second semi-final, including Belgium, and the final on Saturday.