Carola Häggkvist

Acting

Carola Häggkvist

Born

1966-09-08 (60)

Place of birth

Hägersten, Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Carola Maria Häggkvist (born 8 September 1966), also known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music. Her debut album, Främling (1983), sold around one million copies and remains the biggest-selling album in Swedish music history. She has also worked as a songwriter. During her career, she has recorded many top-selling albums and singles and is referred to as Sweden's most prominent female singer. Some of her biggest hits are "Främling", "Tommy tycker om mig", "Fångad av en stormvind", "All the Reasons to Live", "I Believe in Love", …

Known for

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Idol poster
6.0

The first season of Sweden's Idol premiered in August 2004 and continued until its grand finale on 26 November. It is a spin off of Britain's Pop Idol.

Idol

2004

Melodifestivalen poster
6.2

Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".

Melodifestivalen

1959

På spåret poster
6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

Skavlan poster
5.0

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

Skavlan

2009

Så ska det låta poster
6.3

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

Så ska det låta

1997

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Lars Wallin - The Prince of Glamour poster
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Gala gowns, passion, discipline, magic, glitter, sweat, and tears. A film about fashion designer Lars Wallin, one of Sweden’s most celebrated couturiers.

Lars Wallin - The Prince of Glamour

2026

E-Type: The way I wanna live poster
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For over 30 years has E-Type been the undisputed king of euro disco in Sweden. For at least as long, he has been the eternal bachelor, living the Stockholm life without a wife and children. Now his life has turned 180 degrees.

E-Type: The way I wanna live

2023

Mellons makt poster
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Every year the Swedish entertainment industry is taken over for weeks by a single television show trying to find Sweden's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen has grown into a center around which a large portion of the Swedish music industry revolves and is financed by. Is it really reasonable that so much power is wielded by a single production?

Mellons makt

2024

Amadeus - more than a son poster
7.5

A close personal portrait of Amadeus Sögaard, the son of Carola Häggkvist and Runar Sögaard. Amadeus describes his upbringing and his career as an elite football player in Sweden.

Amadeus - more than a son

2021

Carola! poster
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With access to unique footage, the film *CAROLA!* offers a glimpse into the life of Carola Häggkvist. She is the artist who has been adored by audiences for decades and who fascinated Ingmar Bergman so deeply that he watched her wedding on repeat. She is also the person who, having been directed by others since the age of 16, has now—at 60—taken control of her own life. She is Carola, and she never ceases to fascinate.

Carola!

2026

Herreys  - guldbröderna poster
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A nostalgia trip back to the 80s when the Herrey brothers created hysteria with their win in Eurovision 1984 with the song Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley. It's about what it was like to deal with the fans, the press and the sudden celebrity. This year marks 40 years since their breakthrough, and it's time to make new music and get on the stage again.

Herreys  - guldbröderna

2024

TV4:s Nyårskarameller 2024 poster
7.0

A colorful full evening from Nalen in Stockholm led by Tilde de Paula Eby. Together with a star-studded list of viewer favorites and double husbands, we look back at the past year and take the first steps into 2025. We are visited by, among others, Peter Haber, Valter Skarsgård, Renée Nyberg, Pär Lernström, Mauri Hermundsson, Tina Nordström, David Hellenius and David Sundin.

TV4:s Nyårskarameller 2024

2025

TV4:s Nyårskarameller 2023 poster
6.0

Tilde de Paula Eby and Edvin Törnblom welcome us to a star-studded evening and offer treats from the past year. On site are Benjamin Ingrosso, Carola, Robert Gustafsson, Marko Lehtosalo and many more! In addition, Agneta Sjödin shares her favorites from the caramel archive. We also peek into 2024's crystal ball and are treated to exciting news and exclusive previews.

TV4:s Nyårskarameller 2023

2024

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Idol poster
6.0

The first season of Sweden's Idol premiered in August 2004 and continued until its grand finale on 26 November. It is a spin off of Britain's Pop Idol.

Idol

2004

Melodifestivalen poster
6.2

Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".

Melodifestivalen

1959

På spåret poster
6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

Skavlan poster
5.0

Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

Skavlan

2009

Så ska det låta poster
6.3

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

Så ska det låta

1997

Hellenius Hörna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hellenius Hörna

2010

Robins poster
7.8

Robins is a Swedish late-night talk show which premiered on SVT2 on August 23, 2006. The host is the young stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson from Malmö. The show's format is similar to that of other late-night shows, Robin makes jokes about recent news, shows sketches, and talks to a guest in the studio. One of the most popular sketches in the show features Robin appearing as Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimović.

Robins

2006

Allsång på Skansen poster
5.4

Allsång på Skansen is a Swedish tv show held at Skansen, Stockholm, every summer on Tuesdays. The audience is supposed to sing-along with musical guests to well-known Swedish songs. The show started in 1935 on a small scale - about fifty people in the audience. Today about 10 000–25 500 people come to each performance.

Allsång på Skansen

1979

Dansk Melodi Grand Prix poster
NR

Dansk Melodi Grand Prix is an annual music competition organised by Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio, which determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and thirteen top-five placings.

Dansk Melodi Grand Prix

1978

Renées brygga poster
NR

TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.

Renées brygga

2015

Stjärnorna på slottet poster
7.0

Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

Stjärnorna på slottet

2006

Så mycket bättre poster
6.5

"Så mycket bättre" is the Swedish version of the format "Beste Zangers". This is asinging reality show where each artist attempts to do their own version of another artists well-known songs, with each person getting an episode featuring all of their songs being performed by the other musicians. The artists spend eight days together at a hotel in Gotland, where they attempt to put their own stamps on the songs.

Så mycket bättre

2010

Sveriges bästa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sveriges bästa

2016

Hver gang vi møtes poster
6.5

"Hver gang vi møtes" is a Norwegian reality television show broadcast on the Norwegian TV 2 television station in 2012. It is structured in similar format to the Swedish series "Så mycket bättre" that had been launched in 2010.

Hver gang vi møtes

2012

BIANCA poster
NR

Unfiltered and unexpected when Bianca Ingrosso invites Swedish and international stars to Sweden's new big talk show - BIANCA.

BIANCA

2022

Moraeus Med Mera poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Moraeus Med Mera

2011

Klassfesten poster
NR

In "Klassfesten" Swedish celebrities compete against each other in knowledge from their own time in primary school. Each week, two celebrities are pitted against each other in subjects ranging from history and music to PE and mathematics. During the competition they also share memories from their time in school.

Klassfesten

2017

Agnetas Nyårskarameller poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agnetas Nyårskarameller

1995

Benjamin's poster
NR

Popstar and food enthusiast Benjamin Ingrosso invites Swedish celebrities to dinner.

Benjamin's

2021

Vilket liv! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vilket liv!

2022

Babben & Co poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Babben & Co

2007

Slå på ring poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Slå på ring

2001

Guds gäng poster
NR

Sebastian Stakset, a former criminal and leader of the band Kartellen. For three years, documentary filmmaker Teodor Hultberg has followed Sebastian’s new life as an evangelical Christian preacher and his work helping and saving society’s most vulnerable. It is a story about trying to leave one’s old life behind—a tale of great sacrifices, difficult choices, betrayal, and an unshakable belief that God and Jesus can turn anyone into a better person.

Guds gäng

2026

Kvällspressen poster
7.5

The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.

Kvällspressen

1992

Asbjørn Brekke-show poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Asbjørn Brekke-show

2012

Vår älskade låtskatt poster
NR

"Stad i ljus," "Säg mig var du står," "Goliat," "Inget stoppar oss nu," "Händer mot himlen," "Utan dina andetag," and many more. Swedish pop history is filled with songs that have made the leap from the charts to the Swedish national soul—songs we sing in karaoke bars on Fridays, in the stands at football matches on Saturdays, or in church choirs on Sundays. Together with the artists and songwriters who provide the soundtrack to our lives, we will tell the stories you might not know behind the songs you most certainly recognize.

Vår älskade låtskatt

2026

Mauri och Morberg - på en liten resa poster
8.0

The unlikely duo Mauri Hermundsson and Per Morberg embark on a world-wide journey full of surprising adventures, culinary experiences and strange encounters. There is everything from laughter and mischief to pain and sadness as they take on countries such as Japan, Argentina and South Africa. Will Mauri succeed in his goal of becoming friends with Per or will their differences be too great?

Mauri och Morberg - på en liten resa

2025

Late Night Concert poster
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In the vacuum created by the absence of live music, TV4 and Live Nation invite you to a unique music experience together with some of Sweden's most popular artists.

Late Night Concert

2020

No artwork available
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Mammagalan är en helt ny gala på den svenska tv-himlen. Samma dag som vi firar våra egna mammor med rosor och kärleksgåvor får vi en unik utblick i världen där vi kan möta mammor med helt andra förutsättningar. Det här är en kväll där världens mammor står i centrum. Där vi får möta det magiska och underbara med moderskapet, men också mödrars utsatthet i stora delar av världen. Vi kommer att se kämpande mammor, lyckliga mammor, mammor som saknar hopp och mammor där livet har vänt till det bättre. Under galan kommer Det stora mammapriset att utses, populära artister att uppträda och vi får följa mammor i Tanzania, Sydafrika och Bangladesh i dokumentära inslag. Under kvällen kommer svenska folket ha möjlighet att bli månadsgivare – och därmed stötta Läkarmissionens långsiktiga arbete att förändra framtiden för mammor i världen!

Mammagalan

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Voice Sverige

2012

Behind the camera