Acting

Filippa Lagerbäck

Biography

Lagerbäck is a television presenter in Italy and has been working in the country since 1998 both for RAI and Italia 1. Starting her career as a model, she moved to Milan where she started working for an Italian television station. In 1996 she starred in the film Silenzio si nasce, directed by Giovanni Veronesi, and from 1998 to 1999 starred in the television series Fiorello. The following year she hosted the Italian version of Candid Camera on RAI with Marco Balestri, Alessia Merz and Samantha De Grenet and the Italia 1 show Strano ma vero with Gene Gnocchi and Cristina Parodi. Lagerbäck hosted the music show Controvento on Italia 1 in 2001 and Circo Massimo on Rai 3 in 2002. In 2004 Lagerbäck was approached by Swedish television to host the reality show The Farm on TV4. In 2010 she returned to Swedish television hosting Drömmen om Italien (English: The Dream of Italy), also on the same channel. Since 2005 she has co-hosted the Rai 3 show Che tempo che fa with presenter Fabio Fazio, introducing guests of the show. In 2012 she began hosting the La7D show That's Italia along with Pino Strabioli.