Buddy Vedder
Dutch actor and television presenter
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- Buddy Vedder (born 26 August 1994) is a Dutch actor and television presenter.
- He played lead roles in the musicals Murder Ballad (2020), Saturday Night Fever (2024–2025) and Soldier of Orange ( Soldaat van Oranje , 2026).
- Career Vedder presented the Kids Top 20 television show from 2015 to 2018.
- He left the show to focus on presenting television shows.
- He also won the award for Beste Jeugdpresentator at the 2018 Zapp Awards and 2019 Zapp Awards.
Buddy Vedder (born 26 August 1994) is a Dutch actor and television presenter. He is known for playing the role of Rover Dekker in the soap opera Goede tijden, slechte tijden. He played lead roles in the musicals Murder Ballad (2020), Saturday Night Fever (2024–2025) and Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje, 2026). Vedder is also a jury member in the television show The Masked Singer.
Career
Vedder presented the Kids Top 20 television show from 2015 to 2018. He played the role of Rover Dekker from 2015 to 2017 in the soap opera Goede tijden, slechte tijden. He left the show to focus on presenting television shows.
Vedder won the award for Beste Zapp-presentator at the 2017 Zapp Awards. He also won the award for Beste Jeugdpresentator at the 2018 Zapp Awards and 2019 Zapp Awards. In 2018, he presented the Kinderprinsengrachtconcert held on the same day as the Prinsengrachtconcert.
In 2019, he presented the show Te leuk om waar te zijn with Britt Dekker and Donnie as team captains. In the show, two teams need to decide which short videos are real and which are fake. In the same year, he became a jury member in the television show The Masked Singer. Vedder played a lead role in the musical Murder Ballad in 2020. He won the Favoriete Ster Jeugdprogramma award at the 2020 Zapp Awards. He played a role in the 2020 film Misfit 3: De Finale directed by Erwin van den Eshof. Vedder presented the game show Deal or No Deal in 2021 and 2022.
Since 2022, Vedder and Jamai Loman present the talent television series Holland's Got Talent. He played the role of Judas Iscariot in The Passion 2023, a Dutch Passion Play held every Maundy Thursday since 2011.
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