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Biography
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.
Early life
Eline was born in the Dutch island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles to Dutch businessman Steven van der Velden and physiotherapist Quirine van der Velden. Eline moved to the United Kingdom at age 14 to study drama and musical theatre at The Arts Educational School, Tring Park. After high school, she focused on Physics in college and graduated with a Master's in Science (Physics) from Imperial College London in 2008.
Languages
Specialized in accents and languages, she speaks English (UK and US), Dutch, German and French as well as perfected accents in all four.
Awards and recognition
Miss Holland won the Best Online Comedy at the 2013 Lovie Awards, judged by Stephen Fry. The Match.com Parody video won Best Online Comedy People's Lovie Award, the people's vote. Her digital series Miss Holland and Match.com Parody Date 1 were also featured in the 2013 Google Lovie Letters.
Miss Holland was featured in the Dailymail in 2016 asking Londoners to recite the National Anthem. She was the no.1 MotionMaker on DailyMotion, selected for the DailyMotion CinemaSelects. Her work was featured at the LA Webfest.