Eline Van der Velden

Eline Van Der Velden (born May 12, 1986) is a Dutch comedian, writer, actress and producer based in London, England.

She was nominated by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for the Lovie Awards and won Best Online Comedy in 2013 for two of her submitted entries. The People's Lovie Award also went to her sketch Match.com Parody, winning against Yahoo Screen's Mansome and BBC's People Just Do Nothing in the people's vote.

She has created multiple online shows such as Sketch My Life with London Hughes and Emily Hartridge and the Match.com Parody.

She has been working with online video content for the last 8 years in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and London. With successes both on YouTube and other platforms such as Dailymotion or Blip.tv, before becoming managing director of Makerschannel.co.uk, the first curated video platform in Europe in 2015. Makers Channel has been recently acquired by Belgian media company, De Persgroep, due to its success in the Netherlands.

Currently, she is the founder of a production company, Particle Productions, a full service digital agency focussed on video content.

In 2016, she could be seen as the face of Dutch Shampoo Andrelon and is known for her character Miss Holland. In 2016, Miss Holland made headlines as she asked the British public to teach her the National Anthem.

As an actress she has starred in Dutch TV series De Troon, Beatrix and the Golden Calf winning series Overspel. In Belgium she appeared opposite Jamie Dornan in Flying Home.

Eline is currently starring in BBC Three series "Putting it out there" where she challenges social perceptions of body hair, heels, spit, personal space and authority figures.