William Spetz

William Spetz (born 4 April 1996 in Umeå) is a Swedish television personality and actor.

Career
Spetz became known after posting comedic videos on YouTube at the age of 15. He went on to appear in two comedic children's shows Williams lista and Scener ur ett tonårsliv which aired on SVT Play.

Spetz started blogging at the age of 12 at the blog portal Blogspot. Owing to a lack of interest, he asked the paper Västerbottens-Kuriren if he could start a youth blog at their blog portal. In May 2010, Spetz began video blogging at the YouTube channel "Lilla bloggen". In 2014, Spetz was a travelling reporter for Musikhjälpen and travelled to Mozambique. Spetz has also been a panellist at Intresseklubben on SVT.

He was one of the co-hosts alongside Gina Dirawi for the final of Melodifestivalen 2016.

In 2016 he wrote and starred in a one-man autobiographical show, Mormor jag vet att du är i himlen, men har du tid en timme? ("Grandma, I know you're up in heaven, but do you have a minute?"), an ode to his deceased grandmother. It was shown on SVT in 2019.

Personal life
Spetz is from Umeå. His mother moved to Sweden from Pakistan as a child.

He is openly gay.

Filmography

 * 2019 – Quicksand  (Netflix series) as Samir Said
 * 2019 – Filip och Mona (SVT series) as Filip
 * 2020 – Dag för dag (film) (film) as Simon
 * 2023 – Tore (Netflix series) as Tore