Mirjam Weichselbraun

Mirjam Weichselbraun, born on 27 September 1981, is an Austrian television host and actress. In Austria, she is best known for presenting television broadcasts such as Dancing Stars, Life Ball, and the Vienna Opera Ball. Internationally, outside of Austria and Germany, she is best known for co-presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015.

Weichselbraun began her broadcasting career in January 2002 when she joined the newly launched music channel VIVA PLUS in Cologne, hosting the show Cologne Day. Eight months later, she moved to MTV Germany in Berlin to host the live show MTV Select until January 2005. During her time in Germany, she interviewed music artists including Jon Bon Jovi and Nickelback. She also presented TRL Germany alongside Joko Winterscheidt, alternating with Patrice Bouédibéla and Karolin Oesterling, until April 2007. Starting in 2003 alongside her MTV duties, she hosted the ZDF online-magazine for the game show Wetten, dass..?.

Her hosting career in Austria expanded in 2004 when she presented the live show Expedition Österreich alongside Christian Clerici. The following year, she hosted the Austrian preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 and began presenting the ORF dancing show Dancing Stars with Alfons Haider. In 2006, she presented the German version of Dancing on Ice on RTL alongside Wayne Carpendale, which increased her popularity in Germany. Her other presentation credits include the Life Ball, Kiddy Contest, The Dome, and the Romy awards ceremony in 2008 and 2013.

In addition to hosting, Weichselbraun has worked as an actress and voice contributor. She lent her voice to Jan Dress' audio drama Letzte Tage, jetzt. Her screen acting work includes the 2007 ORF movie Die Rosenkönigin and an episode of Die ProSieben Märchenstunde. She subsequently appeared in the films H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel in 2008 and Hangtime in 2009. That same year, she played the role of Sugar Kane in Peter Stone's musical Manche mögen's heiß at the Theater in der Josefstadt.

In 2015, Weichselbraun co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna alongside Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer. In 2021, she hosted the second season of The Masked Singer Austria for Channel Puls 4.

Weichselbraun has received numerous accolades throughout her career. She earned Austrian Romy awards in 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2012, including a Special Jury Prize for Dancing Stars with Alfons Haider and a diamond lapel ROMY alongside Klaus Eberhartinger. She received the ORF Top Spot Award as advertising favourite of the year in 2007 and 2008, a Leading Ladies Award in 2008, an IPTV Award in 2010 for her Wetten, dass..? backstage interviews, and was named Tyrolean of the Year in 2015.

Weichselbraun has a twin sister, Melanie Binder, who took their father's surname while Weichselbraun took her mother's. She was previously in a two-year relationship with the singer Marque and a four-year relationship with Sat.1 host Jahn Hahn. Since 2013, she has been in a relationship with Ben Mawson, the manager of Lana Del Rey, with whom she has two daughters.