Loretta Schrijver

Loretta Maxine Schrijver (16 May 1956 – 27 March 2025) was a Dutch television presenter.

Life and career Youth, education and early career Schrijver was born in New York; her father was a textile entrepreneur, and the family moved back and forth between the Netherlands and the US, depending on the business fortunes of her father's companies. A few months after her birth, they moved to Amsterdam, and a few years later to Los Angeles. She returned definitively to the Netherlands when she was eight, and lived in The Hague, Venlo, and Zandvoort until settling in Amsterdam, where she finished secondary school (gymnasium). After graduation she spent time in Paris, improving her French at the Alliance française. She had surgery in 2021, but it returned in October 2023 and had metastasized. She died of cancer on 27 March 2025, at the age of 68.