Hanna Verboom was born May 11, 1983 in Belgium. She made her motion picture debut in 2004 playing the female lead in the film "Snowfever". She currently hosts the Dutch National TV channel BNN's weekly music show "Top of the Pops". Born in Belgium, Verboom spent her early childhood in the African nations of Kenya and Sudan. After moving to The Netherlands, Hanna worked as a model and won the "Dutch Elite Model Look 2003". She also did majors in economics, philosophy, and a minor in film science at the Amsterdam University. There she joined the Amsterdam student theater group and convincingly showed her talent for acting in several plays with the production company. Besides her acting, Hanna is a painting artist and had her first work exhibited in the Amsterdam gallery in 2004.