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Ida Victoria Nowakowska-Herndon (born December 7, 1990) is a Polish-American actress, dancer and television presenter.

Ida Nowakowska
Nowakowska in 2021
Born	Ida Nowakowska Hernon (1990-12-07) December 7, 1990 (age 31) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish, American
Other names	Ida Victoria Nowakowska-Herndon
Occupation	Actress, dancer, presenter
Years active	2000–present
Notable work	Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 and 2020 as presenter
Television	TVP
Spouse	Jack Herndon ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	1

Early life and career

She studied in New York City at the Professional Performing Arts School and Steps on Broadway and performed at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2007, she was a finalist on the first season of the Polish version of So You Think You Can Dance and reached the Top 10 in the competition. Graduated from the School of Theater, Film and Television from University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in theater and political science. She returned as a judge for the ninth season in 2016.[1]

In 2019, she was a judge of the first season of Dance Dance Dance broadcast on TVP2 in Poland and is the host of Poland's Junior Bake Off. She will co-host the next edition of The Voice Kids that will premiere in February 2021, replacing Barbara Kurdej-Szatan in the role. On August 22, 2019, it was announced that Nowakowska would host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, alongside Aleksander Sikora and Roksana Węgiel, in Gliwice on November 24.[2]

On October 7, 2020, it was announced that Nowakowska would again host the contest, this time alongside Rafał Brzozowski and Małgorzata Tomaszewska, in Warsaw on November 29.[3] Ida is one of three presenters in the history of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest that has hosted the competition twice - previously only presenters from the Netherlands and Ukraine did. She is also the first to conduct the competition twice in a row. She also served as the Polish jury spokesperson in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 and 2022.

She Award 12 points with Senhit and Kalush Orchestra in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 and 2022.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1997	Bastard
2004	Out of Reach	Irena Morawska
2011	Suicide Room	Weronika

References

External links

Media related to Ida Nowakowska at Wikimedia Commons

• Ida Nowakowska at IMDb

Preceded by Evgeny Perlin, Zinaida Kupriyanovich and Helena Meraai	Junior Eurovision Song Contest presenter (2019, with Aleksander Sikora and Roksana Węgiel; 2020, with Rafał Brzozowski and Małgorzata Tomaszewska) 2019, 2020	Succeeded by Élodie Gossuin, Olivier Minne and Carla Lazzari

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