Stine Buer

Stine Merete Buer, born in 1971 and raised in Rælingen, is a Norwegian journalist, presenter, actress and comedian, known above all from the NRK comedy programme Melonas. After finishing upper secondary school in 1990 she took the theatre course at Romerike folkehøgskole, then studied French and art history at the University of Oslo, and trained as a journalist at Volda University College.

She was working with NRK television from the age of twelve, and through her teens she appeared in a run of programmes for children and young people, among them 4711 with Trond-Viggo Torgersen and Trond Kirkvaag in 1986. In the same years she acted at Chateau Neuf in productions including Pippi Longstocking and The Sound of Music.

In 1996 she took over from Vera Micaelsen as presenter of the NRK youth programme Go' elg, having first worked in its editorial team, and with Jan-Erik Larssen she fronted 65 live broadcasts up to 1998. She moved on to the youth programme Smørøyet, where she wrote and directed the series Søsterens verden, which won a Prix Jeunesse in 2000. Between 2000 and 2001 she presented Reser with Stian Barsnes-Simonsen, worked as stunt reporter and presenter at the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix final in 2000, and in autumn 2001 made the documentary Prinsessen på farten about Princess Märtha Louise with Marius Hoel, shown on the princess's thirtieth birthday.

She joined NRK's entertainment department in 2001, reported from the road for Sommeråpent in 2002, and that autumn became one of the three performers in Melonas, which ran for three seasons up to 2006. She later took part in Skal vi danse on TV 2 in 2010 and the cooking talent show Camp kulinaris in 2021.