Hanna Verboom made her motion picture debut in 2004 playing the female lead in the Dutch film Snowfever, directed by Pim van Hoeve and currently hosts the Dutch National TV channel BNN's weekly music show Top of the Pops. Born in the Netherlands, Verboom spent her early childhood in Kenya and the Sudan. After returning to the Netherlands she studied philosophy and economics at Amsterdam University, where she joined the student theater group and appeared in several plays with the company.