page_title: Virginie Efira
section_title: 1998–2008: Television anchor
hierarchical_section_title: Virginie Efira / Career / 1998–2008: Television anchor
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Virginie Efira au festival de Deauville
context_page_description: Virginie Efira is a Belgian-French actress and television presenter.
  Efira got her first leading role in the romantic comedy It Boy. She subsequently received critical praise for her performance in the comedy-drama In Bed with Victoria, for which she received a Magritte Award for Best Actress as well as a César Award for Best Actress nomination. She then appeared in Paul Verhoeven's psychological thriller Elle, the drama An Impossible Love and the comedy-drama Sibyl.
context_section_description: She was first hired by Club RTL (A Belgian TV channel in the RTL Group) to present a children's show called Mégamix. She went on to present other programmes in Belgium, including A la recherche de la nouvelle Star. In September 2002 she was offered the job of the presenter of Belgian's version of Star Academy.
  After casting to be a weather girl on France's M6 channel, she was soon pushed into the limelight as one of M6's main public faces, presenting shows such as Le Grand Zap, La saga des ..., Follement Gay, Absolument 80/90, Le Grand Piège and Drôles d'équipes. She was the host of Classé Confidentiel for one year, before replacing Benjamin Castaldi as the host of the popular musical reality show Nouvelle Star for the end of the show's fourth series. She also presents various shows on RTL-TVi (a spin-off channel in the RTL Group).
caption: Virginie Efira at the Deauville American Film Festival in 2010
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