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{{short description|Austrian television host and actress (born 1981)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2014}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Mirjam Weichselbraun
| image = 20160415 Dancing Stars 2378.jpg
| caption = Weichselbraun in 2016
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|9|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Innsbruck]], Austria
| occupation = Television presenter, actress
| known_for = Hosting ''[[Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)|Dancing Stars]]'', [[Life Ball]] and the [[Vienna Opera Ball]]
| partner = Ben Mawson (2013–present)
| years_active = 1999–present
| children = 2
| website = {{URL|mirjamweichselbraun.com}}
}}

'''Mirjam Weichselbraun''' (born 27 September 1981{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}) is an Austrian television host and actress, best known in Austria for presenting ''[[Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)|Dancing Stars]]'', [[Life Ball]] and the [[Vienna Opera Ball]]. She is best known, outside Austria and Germany, for co-presenting the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] in [[Eurovision Song Contest 2015|2015]].

==Career==
In January 2002, she joined the newly started music channel VIVA PLUS in [[Cologne]], where she hosted the show ''Cologne Day''.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} After only eight months she switched to [[MTV Central|MTV Germany]] in [[Berlin]] where she hosted the live show ''[[MTV Select]]'' until January 2005.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} In Germany, she has interviewed some of the most famous artists in the music business including [[Jon Bon Jovi]] and [[Nickelback]]. She presented ''[[Total Request Live|TRL Germany]]'' with [[Joko Winterscheidt]] (alternating with {{ill|Patrice Bouédibéla|de}} and {{ill|Karolin Oesterling|de}}) until April 2007.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

[[Image:Mirjam Weichselbraun ROMY2008.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Weichselbraun at the 2008 Romy Awards]]
Since 2003, next to her job on MTV, she has also been hosting the [[ZDF]] online-magazine for the game show ''[[Wetten, dass..?]]''. In 2004 she has, together with {{ill|Christian Clerici|de}}, hosted the live show ''{{ill|Expedition Österreich|de}}'' ''(Expedition Austria)'', and one year later the [[Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005|Austrian preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005]], as well as the dancing show ''[[Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)|Dancing Stars]]'' with [[Alfons Haider]] on [[ORF (broadcaster)|ORF]]. Her hosting of ''Dancing Stars'' earned her the Austrian [[Romy (TV award)|Romy]] television award in 2006 and 2008. In 2006, Weichselbraun and [[Wayne Carpendale]] presented the [[Dancing on Ice (German TV series)|German version of ''Dancing on Ice'']] on [[RTL Television|RTL]], which made her very popular in Germany.<ref>[http://www.rtl.de/tv/dancingonice_moderatoren.php Dancing on Ice - Moderators] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206014518/http://www.rtl.de/tv/dancingonice_moderatoren.php |date=6 December 2006 }} (German)</ref> Other hosting jobs include the [[Life Ball]], ''[[Kiddy Contest]]'', ''[[The Dome (TV program)|The Dome]]'' and the Romy awards presentation in 2008 and 2013.

In addition to her job as a show host, Weichselbraun has also lent her voice to Jan Dress' audio drama ''Letzte Tage, jetzt'' (Last days, now) and worked as an actress. In 2007 she played in the ORF movie ''{{Ill|Die Rosenkönigin|de}}'' and in one episode of the first season of ''[[Die ProSieben Märchenstunde]]'' (episode: ''Frau Holle – Im Himmel ist die Hölle los''). In 2008 and 2009 she appeared in two more films: ''[[H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel]]'' and ''{{Ill|Hangtime (film)|de|3=Hangtime – Kein leichtes Spiel|lt=Hangtime}}''. In 2009, she took the role of ''Sugar Kane'' in Peter Stones' musical ''Manche mögen's heiß (Some like it hot)'' at the [[Theater in der Josefstadt]].

In 2015, Weichselbraun co-hosted the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] alongside [[Alice Tumler]] and [[Arabella Kiesbauer]] in Vienna.<ref>{{cite web|last=Siim|first=Jarmo|title=Who gets to host Eurovision in Vienna?|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=who_gets_to_host_eurovision_in_vienna|publisher=[[European Broadcasting Union|eurovision.tv]]|accessdate=19 December 2014|date=19 December 2014}}</ref> In 2021, she hosted the second season of ''[[The Masked Singer Austria]]'' for Channel [[Puls 4]].

==Awards==
*[[Romy (TV award)|Romy Awards 2006]]: Special Jury Prize for ''Dancing Stars'' together with [[Alfons Haider]]
*2007 and 2008: Top Spot Award ORF as advertising favourite of the year<ref>[http://www.willkommen-oesterreich.tv/artikel.php?id=1071 ''Mirjam Weichselbraun zu Gast in Willkommen Österreich''] ''Willkommen Österreich'', 5 March 2012.</ref>
*Leading Ladies Award 2008
*[[Romy (TV award)|Romy Ceremony 2008]]: Romy as popular talk show host
*IPTV Award 2010: Viewership price for their backstage interviews ''Wetten, dass ..?''<ref>[[ZDF]]: [http://www.zdf.de/ZDF/zdfportal/web/ZDF.de/Wetten-dass../2942576/5360274/c4f1e1/Deutscher-IPTV-Award-f%C3%BCr-Wetten-dass..-Online.html ''"Deutscher IPTV Award" für Wetten, dass..?-Online – Zuschauerpreis für die von Mirjam Weichselbraun geführten Interviews''], 6 November 2010.</ref>
*[[Romy (TV award)|Romy Ceremony 2011]]: Romy as a popular show entertainer
*[[Romy (TV award)|Romy Awards 2012]]: Romy as a popular show entertainer along with [[Klaus Eberhartinger]] and diamond lapel ROMY
*2015: Tyrolean of the Year<ref>[http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2734772/ ''orf.at – ESC-Moderatoren Tiroler des Jahres'']. 2 October 2015.</ref>

==Personal life==
Weichselbraun has a twin sister. Their parents married late, so each girl could choose her own surname.{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}} Melanie Binder took her father's name, while Mirjam Weichselbraun took her mother's.

After a two year-relationship Weichselbraun split up with the singer [[Marque (artist)|Marque]]. She had also been in a relationship with the Sat.1 host Jahn Hahn, but they split after four years. Since 2013 she has been in a relationship with Ben Mawson, the manager of [[Lana Del Rey]]. She has two children with him, two daughters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.woman.at/a/mirjam-weichselbrauns-freund-ben-mawson-353228|title=Mirjam Weichselbrauns neuer Freund: Ben Mawson|date=22 February 2013|website=WOMAN.AT|accessdate=2 February 2021}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
[[Image:Life Ball 2013 - magenta carpet Mirjam Weichselbraun 03.jpg|thumb|200px|Weichselbraun at Life Ball 2013]]

===Actress===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class = "unsortable"|Notes
|-
| 2007
| ''{{Ill|Die Rosenkönigin|de}}''
| Marie Gruber
| TV
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Die ProSieben Märchenstunde]]''
| Chantal
| TV
|-
| 2008
| ''[[H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel]]''
| Sidney
| TV
|-
| 2008
| ''Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Alles anders''
| Agnes Ulmendorff
| TV
|-
| 2008
| ''{{ill|The Wall: The Final Days|de|Wir sind das Volk – Liebe kennt keine Grenzen}}''
| Bonnie
| TV
|-
| 2009
| ''{{Ill|Hangtime (film)|de|3=Hangtime – Kein leichtes Spiel|lt=Hangtime}}''
| Kathi
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Das Traumhotel]]'' (Episode: ''Malediven'')
| Greta Junghans
| TV
|-
| 2012
| ''Die Braut im Schnee''
| Dr. Thea Hollmann
| TV
|-
| 2012
| ''Unter Umständen verliebt''
| Steffi
| TV
|-
| 2012
| ''Es kommt noch dicker'' <br>(Episodes: ''Ein magischer Tag'', ''Der Tanzwettbewerb'')
| Ella Sandvoss
| TV
|-
| 2012
| ''Wir sind Kaiser''
| Fifi
| TV
|-
| 2012
| ''{{ill|Lost in Borneo|fr|La Princesse et le Baroudeur}}''
| Julia zu Hohenberg
| TV
|-
| 2013
| ''Herztöne''
| Dutch Princess
| TV
|-
| 2013
| ''Zweisitzrakete''
| Polizistin Sabrina
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Zur Sache, Macho!]]''
| Lisa Rammser
| TV
|-
|}

=== Dubbing ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Bee Movie]]''
| Vanessa Bloom
|}

===Presenter===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Channel
! Role
|-
| 2001
| ''Das Magazin''
| TV Tirol
| rowspan=3|Presenter
|-
| 2002
| ''Cologne Day''
| VIVA Plus
|-
| 2002–2005
| ''[[MTV Select]]''
| rowspan=2|[[MTV Central|MTV Germany]]
|-
| 2002–2007
| ''[[Total Request Live|TRL Germany]]''
| Co-presenter
|-
| 2003–2012
| ''[[Wetten, dass..?]]''
| [[ZDF]]
| Online presenter
|-
| 2004
| ''Expedition Österreich''
| rowspan=4|[[ORF1]]
| rowspan=5|Co-presenter
|-
| 2005<br>2007–2008<br>2010–
| ''[[Life Ball]]''
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005|Song.Null.Fünf]]''
|-
| 2005–
| ''[[Dancing Stars (Austrian TV series)|Dancing Stars]]''
|-
| 2006
| [[Dancing on Ice around the world|''Dancing on Ice'']]
| [[RTL Television|RTL]]
|-
| 2007–2008
| ''[[Kiddy Contest]]''
| rowspan=2|[[ORF1]]
| Presenter
|-
| 2008, 2013, 2019
| ''[[Romy (TV award)|Romy Television Awards]]''
| Host
|-
| 2008–2010
| ''[[The Dome (TV program)|The Dome]]''
| [[RTL II|RTL2]]
| rowspan=5|Co-presenter
|-
| 2010
| ''Die Hit-Giganten''
| [[Sat.1]]
|-
| 2010–2012
| ''Willkommen''
| [[ZDF]]
|-
| 2011–
| ''[[Vienna Opera Ball]]''
| rowspan=3|[[ORF eins]]
|-
| 2012–2013
| ''[[Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest|Österreich rockt den Song Contest]]''
|-
| 2012
| ''Hast du Nerven?''
| Presenter
|-
| 2012–2013
| ''[[Die Harald Schmidt Show]]''
| [[Sky Deutschland]]
| [[Sidekick]]
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Deutscher Filmpreis|Deutscher Filmpreis 2013]]''
| rowspan=2|[[ZDF]]
| Host
|-
| 2014
| ''Die Große Grillshow''
| Co-presenter
|-
| rowspan=2|2015
| ''[[Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015|Wer singt für Österreich?]]''
| rowspan=3|[[ORF eins]]
| Presenter
|-
| ''[[Eurovision Song Contest 2015]]''
| rowspan=2|Co-presenter
|-
| 2017
| ''Echt jetzt?!''
|-
| 2021
| ''[[Masked Singer|The Masked Singer Austria]]''
| [[Puls 4]]
| Presenter
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
*{{Official website|mirjamweichselbraun.com}}
*{{IMDb name|1711329|Mirjam Weichselbraun}}

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[[Category:Actresses from Innsbruck]]
[[Category:Austrian twins]]
[[Category:Austrian television presenters]]
[[Category:Austrian women television presenters]]
[[Category:ORF (broadcaster) people]]
[[Category:Mass media people from Innsbruck]]
[[Category:Austrian television actresses]]
[[Category:21st-century Austrian actresses]]

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