Antonia Grietje "Tooske" Ragas-Breugem (née Breugem; born 3 June 1974), is a Dutch actress and television host. She played a stewardess in 06/05, a movie by Theo van Gogh about the murder of Pim Fortuyn. She was video jockey (VJ) at TMF Netherlands and presented two seasons of the Dutch and German version of Idols.
Tooske Ragas | |
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 Ragas in 2013 | |
| Born | Antonia Grietje Breugem 3 June 1974 Zwolle, Netherlands |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, television host |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
Early life
editBreugem was born in Zwolle into a Dutch Reformed family, and has two elder brothers, Jaap and Jan-Pieter.
Career
editSince her first appearance on television in 1995 on the Soundmixshow, Tooske's career showed a lot of aspects of the Dutch entertainment industry. She was Miss Overijssel, the province she hailed from, in 1996, placed fourth in the Miss Netherlands competition, and was singer in the group Bogy Bogy for two years. Later, she became VJ at TMF Netherlands and MTV, which she was from 1998 until 2002. In 2002, she switched to the larger television channels and became co-host of Idols Netherlands together with Reinout Oerlemans for two seasons at RTL4.
In 2005, Breugem switched from RTL to the Dutch public television broadcasting association AVRO where she presented the Junior Songfestival, the presentation of the Televisierring and Help, ik word vader! ("Help, I'm becoming a father").[1] Together with Marco Schreyl she presented the third and fourth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German Idols version.[2][3]
In 2006, she switched again, and this time to the commercial broadcaster SBS, where she presented Je wordt bedankt ("Thanks!") in 2006[4] and Het Beste Idee van Nederland ("The best idea from the Netherlands") in 2007.
Tooske is also known in Germany, but although the Dutch know her as Tooske Breugem, by her maiden name, the Germans know her generally as Tooske Ragas, after her husband. Officially she uses Tooske Ragas-Breugem.
Rages appeared in a 2015 episode of the game show De Jongens tegen de Meisjes. She appears in the 2022 film Het Feest van Tante Rita.[5] In 2024, she appeared in the 24th season of Wie is de Mol?.
Personal life
editOn 3 June 2002, Breugem married American Keith Davis, but the couple split up in December 2003. On 25 June 2005, she married the Dutch actor Bastiaan Ragas,[6] who was her co-star in the musical 3 Musketiers. On 13 February 2007, their first daughter was born.[7] Their second daughter was born on 28 May 2008. The third daughter was born on 7 April 2010.
References
edit- ^ "Nieuw AVRO-programma voor Tooske" [New AVRO program for Tooske]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 31 March 2005. Archived from the original on 3 April 2005.
- ^ Report on Tooske's presentation by the Telegraaf (in Dutch) [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Duitsers willen Tooske opnieuw" [Germans want Tooske again]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 1 July 2006. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007.
- ^ Telegraaf reporting on Tooske's presentation of Je wordt bedankt (in Dutch) [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Edsilia Rombley speelt eerste grote filmrol in nieuwe muzikale kinderfilm". NU.nl (in Dutch). 16 May 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Tooske en Bastiaan in Frankrijk getrouwd" [Tooske and Bastiaan married in France]. radio.nl (in Dutch). 26 June 2005. Archived from the original on 20 June 2008.
- ^ "Meisje voor Bastiaan en Tooske" [Girl for Bastiaan and Tooske]. NU (in Dutch). 13 February 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
External links
edit- Tooske Ragas at IMDb