Wendy van Dijk

Wendy van Dijk (born 12 February 1971) is a Dutch actress, comedian and television presenter. She is best known for her portrayal of Ushi Hirosaki, a hapless Japanese journalist featured in both a series of Dutch television shows and a theatrical film.

Television

Van Dijk was born in Weesp in 1971 as the daughter of a market trader. Between 1996 en 1998, she presented, together with Renate Scholten and Matthias Scholte the SBS program Over de Rooie. Van Dijk presented the show Hart in Aktie between 2000 and 2006. In 2006, Van Dijk was a contestant on Dancing On Ice. In 2007 and 2008, she hosted the Dutch edition of Idols. The Netherlands edition of X Factor was the replacer of Idols, which Van Dijk has also hosted all 5 seasons of. Van Dijk co-hosted 9 seasons of The Voice of Holland together with Martijn Krabbé, from 2010 to 2019, as well seasons 1–9 of The Voice Kids. From 2011 on, she hosted all three seasons of the Dutch TV show Obese, in which she and professional coaches and doctors help morbid obese people to successfully lose weight in 3 months. Since 2013, Van Dijk has been hosting the game show Wie ben ik? (Who am I?).

In 2018, she moved from RTL4 back to her old network SBS6. At SBS6 she presents the shows Dance Dance Dance, SuperKids, Wie Het Laatst Lacht, Hart in Aktie, We Want More and the Dutch version of Flirty Dancing. In 2021, Van Dijk and Jan Versteegh presented De Dansmarathon, a show in which contestants need to dance for fifty hours to win 100,000 euros. Other Dutch celebrity duos also presented parts of the show. In 2025, she narrated the live event and television program The Passion.