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Johann Urb was born in Tallinn, Estonia, on 24 January 1977 into the family of Tarmo and Maris. When Johann was 10, he moved to Finland with his mother and her new husband. They lived in several small towns until they finally settled in Tampere. At the age of 17 Johann moved to his father's in New York, where he soon started a modeling career. In 2001, he landed a small part in the movie Trai Đẹp Lên Sàn (2001). After that, he did a role in the short movie Fear of Feathers (2003) and appeared in one episode of CSI: Miami (2002). In 2004, he got a part in the short-running TV-show The Mountain (2004). After that, he appeared as a guest on several TV shows and appeared in more minor film roles. In 2008, Johann got his first big film role in the much-hated The Hottie & the Nottie (2008). In 2009, things seemed to go up when he made a short but memorable appearance as the sexy, heroic pilot in Roland Emmerich's disaster epic 2012: Năm Đại Họa (2009) and played a journalist in the fantasy TV series Eastwick (2009), which brought him critical recognition. At the moment, Johann has two romantic comedies in work.- Katariina Unt was born on 6 December 1971 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]. She is an actress, known for Lioness (2024), Undergods (2020) and Somnambuul (2003). She was previously married to Raivo E. Tamm and Indrek Sammul.
- Born in 1931, Narda became friends with Robert I. McCarthy when she was an eleven-year-old laundress for McCarthy's anti-aircraft battalion in Bonn.
In 1944, she was a child actress in Estonia. To escape the Russians, she, her grandparents, her mother and 2-year-old brother took to the sea bound for Sweden. Picked up as Germans, they were taken to Danzig. Amidst much confusion, because they spoke fluent German they were able to meld into the daily life there. The Onyx family later made their way to the American occupied forces at Bonn and sought refuge with the Swedish Red Cross. Later the family moved to Sweden; Narda resumed her acting career. Traveling to England where she worked for the Old Vic Company.
She then went to Canada to perform on stage and television. After appearing in some 70 television shows over the past six years, on October 20, 1961, she became an American citizen. While in Canada she met and married George Virand, also an Estonian refuge, where they moved to Hollywood. - Russian-Estonian actor Kirill Käro is active in Eastern Europe, especially in Russia, Ukraine and Estonia. He became widely known for the Ukrainian detective series Nyukhach (2013). Kirill Käro plays a man, who has an unusually sensitive sense of smell that allows him to investigate crimes by detecting and distinguishing trace amounts of various substances.
At the end of 2010, at the peak of the Netflix trend, Kirill Käro played in two genre Russian TV series, that were watched by the whole world. The first show is android thriller series Luchshe, chem lyudi (2018), about a world where androids serve humans in various positions, even replacing them in many menial jobs. The second show is the post-apocalyptic thriller series Epidemiya (2019) about the beginning of a terrible epidemic, where two families unite to survive in a new world, which coincided with the release date of the series in the year of isolation from Covid-19.
Kirill Käro's most successful project in his homeland, Estonia, is a sports biographical drama Miekkailija (2015) about an Estonian fencer Endel Nelis, where Käro played a notable supporting role, a friend of Endel. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe award in the Best Foreign Language Film category as a Finnish-German-Estonian co-production. - Pääru Oja was born on 16 May 1989 in Tallinn, Estonia. He is an actor, known for Undir halastjörnu (2018), Viimased (2020) and Lõks (2018).
- Ivan Triesault was born on 13 July 1898 in Reval, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia]. He was an actor, known for Câu Chuyện Về Notorious (1946), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and The Amazing Transparent Man (1960). He died on 3 January 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Born in 1916 as the eldest child of a German-Baltic aristocrat, Baroness Irene Isabella Margarete Pauline Caecila von Meyendorff actually never planned to become a movie star. When the Russian Revolution broke out, the family escaped to Germany, where Irene's mother Elisabeth left her conservative husband with the children to live a very unconventional life in the theatre circles of Weimar/Thuringia. In the early 1930's Irene came to Berlin to work as a cutter in the UFA film studios of Babelsberg. As a breathtaking beautiful, ice-cold blond young woman she would have been the ideal star for Alfred Hitchcock movies. But these were the 1930's and she lived in Nazi Germany. When she was discovered for the screen, her debut was only a mediocre swashbuckler movie - which unexpectedly made her a star. Her best part maybe was the noble Hamburg Patrician daughter Octavia in Veit Harlan's Opfergang (1944). She never was a sympathizer of the Nazi system. Her first husband, Dr. Heinz Zahler, was a member of the Kreisau Circle, a group of religious motivated anti-Nazi-bourgeois. Her beauty attracted Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, who got a harsh rebuff by her ("You would degrade me - and you would degrade yourself"). Joseph Goebbels's infamous nick name "Bock von Babelsberg" (the old horny goat of Babelsberg) was Irene's creation. After the war she only played minor parts in German films. In 1961 she met British actor James Robertson Justice, fell in love with him and left her second husband Pit Severin, a journalist from Hamburg, to follow James Robertson Justice to England. It was 1968 when she returned a last time to screen for a small part in the costume drama Mayerling (1968). She never was interested to continue her career. 8 years after James Robertson Justice's death in 1975, she met and later married philanthropist Keith Bromley. Even at the age of 70 she sailed to the Artic and the Orinoco River. On September 28, 2001, she died in Hampshire after a full, remarkable life.
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Popular singer and TV host. Member of the Estonian National Opera (both as a singer and as stage director). Enthusiast of Gilbert and Sullivan, whose work he often performs in the UK. Has released several albums in many countries. Has also written best selling novels in English and Estonian. Was presented to HRH Queen Elizabeth in 2006. The knight of the order of St. Stanislaus. Has produced and directed several stage successes at the Estonian National Opera. Established his production company FilMinistry OÜ in 2016, presenting the well received horror drama Behind the Random Denominator and the epic TV history drama The Whores, in 2017.- Anita Yoo is an Estonian actress. She was born and raised in Tallinn, Estonia. She is of Russian, Korean and Ukrainian descent. Anita moved to Shanghai, China at the age of nineteen to study Mandarin Chinese and attended Fudan University. She acted in over 30 projects internationally. She is May Lee in an Emmy and Golden Globes nominated FX TV show The Old Man. The show One Boat One World, where she played supporting character Phyl Decard, was number one show in television charts in China and had billions of views. She is now based in Los Angeles, California.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editorial Department
Mart Taniel was born in 1976 in Tallinn. He graduated in cinematography from the University of Tallinn and Prague's FAMU Film School. In 2017, Mart Taniel received the highest international honor given to cinematographers, the ASC Spotlight Award, for "November". That same film won Best Cinematography at the Tribeca IFF for its "particularly audacious [cinematography] and supreme command of its visual language." Mart Taniel is one of the most remarkable Estonian cinematographers. Several award-winning films have his handprint, including the Venice Orizzonti prize-winning "Autumn Ball" (2007, directed by Veiko Õunpuu) and "The Temptation of St. Tony" (2010, directed by Veiko Õunpuu), which premiered internationally at the Sundance IFF International Competition. Taniel is also the cinematographer of Rainer Sarnet's films "The Idiot" (2011) and "November" (2017). He shot "FREE RANGE/ Ballad on Approving of the World" (2013, directed by Veiko Õunpuu), which premiered at the Berlinale Forum and received the award for "most beautiful film" from the Estonian Cultural Endowment. Taniel's other awards include the Black Nights Film Festival and Estonian Cultural Endowment prizes for Best Cinematographer of the Year, the 2morrow IFF/Zavtra Glass Eye Award for cinematography and the Best Cinematography Award from the Transylvania IFF International Competition. "The Man Who Surprised Everyone" is Taniel's second cooperation with directors Natalya Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov. The film premiered in Venice IFF in 2018- Music Artist
- Writer
- Composer
Has a twin brother named Vjatseslav. In 1994, Stas (Stanislav) and Slava (Vjatseslav) were selected for the prestigious Kantilena male choir, where they studied vocal skills and toured European cities. When most of their peers did not even have documents, the brothers were already exchanging their first passports for new ones because they ran out of space for entry and exit border stamps. Stas and Slava will sing in Kantilena until 2001. The brothers were real hooligans in their teenage years. They were both expelled from several schools for bad behavior and had run-ins with the police for minor offenses. In 2005, at the age of 18, Stas and Slava founded their first rock band, Rockcrime. Stas was on bass guitar, Slava was on lead guitar. In 2006, by luck, the brothers took part in the Eurovision 2006 qualifying competition from Estonia and took 3rd place. In 2009, Stas and Slava left Rockcrime and founded their second band, Cantilena. The band performs mainly in Estonia. Sometimes it was possible to travel abroad to neighboring countries: Russia, Finland, Lithuania, and Latvia. The most outstanding achievements were joint performances with such rock monsters as Sepultura (2012) and Phil Anselmo (Pantera) & The Illegals (2014). By the way, if this can be considered an achievement, Cantilena once performed in the same city in the evening with Metallica and the guys even had an audience! Between 2009 and 2020, the group gave 84 concerts, released an EP album "Metallinn" (2010), recorded a full-length album "Violent Peace" (2012), and shot 4 videos for their songs. In 2019, Stas was casting for Christopher Nolan's film "Tenet", some of the episodes of which were planned to be filmed in Tallinn. Stas gets the role of a "public" in the concert hall, where the film begins. After unforgettable days on the set with cinema monster Christopher Nolan, Stas gets the idea to write his own movie... His dramatic script "Safe Waters" is available for request on the InkTip platform.- Jette Loona Hermanis was born in 1997 in Tallinn, Estonia. She is an actress, known for November (2017), Embodiment (2020) and On Air: Purity, Corruption & Pollution.
- Nelli Pshyonnaya was born on 1 January 1947 in Tallinn, USSR. She is an actress, known for Chuyện Tình Công Sở (1977), Knyaz Igor (1969) and Tungusskiy meteorit (2010).
- Aare Laanemets was born on 6 February 1954 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]. He was an actor, known for Suvi (1976), Ostrov sokrovishch (1972) and Kevade (1969). He died on 28 October 2000.
- Actress
- Manager
Miss Palmiste is a leading actress of the Estonian State Drama Theater, known also for her many roles in TV and films. She has won numerous awards, including The Best TV Actress for her portrayal of Madame Kukk in the award winning TV series The Whores, at the Kroonika Entertainment Awards 2018. She has often been selected as the most elegant Estonian actress. She has also appeared in musicals (such as Chicago) and in operetta (such as in Ball at the Savoy, at the Estonian National Opera).- Sound Department
- Producer
- Composer
Ivo Felt was born on 31 October 1968 in Tallinn, Estonia. He is a producer and composer, known for Tenet (2020), Mandariinid (2013) and Rat King (2012).- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Jüri Järvet (born as Georgi Kuznetsov) was a highly prolific and respected Estonian screen and stage actor. He was born in Tallinn. His mother moved to Moscow in 1920. Jüri stayed to live in family's friend who later gave him into an orphanage. At the age of five he was taken into a family with three children though his new parents didn't adopt him officially. In 1936 he changed his birth name to Jüri Järvet.
Jüri got his first acting experience in the fourth grade were he had a non speaking part in school play. His next role came in sixth grade. He also appeared in five real theatre plays at his school years but he was replaced when he turned sixteen thus making him too old for the parts. After high school he worked as a messenger in factory's office.
In 1941 during the Soviet occupation in Estonia, he was drafted into Soviet Red Army but was later demobilized. After war Jüri worked as a dancer in Noorsooteater but he felt that dancing isn't something he would like to do so in 1944 he started to study acting and in 1945 he got his first role. Beside his studies he also did editorial work in radio.
His most famous film roles came in 1970s as made title role in Grigoriy Kozintsev's powerful Korol Lir (1970) (King Lear). In 1972 he played Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Điều Tạo Nên Con Người (1972) and in 1979 he played the owner of the hotel in Grigori Kromanov's cult film _'Hukkunud Alpinisti' hotell (1979)_ (The Dead Mountaineer Hotel).
Jüri Järvet was married twice. In 1948-1958 he was married with actress Inna Taarna. In 1955 their first son Jüri Järvet Jr. was born. In 1958 he married with oncologist Astrid. Couple had daughter Jana in 1960. Jüri died on July 5th 1995 in Tallinn.- Elina Benenson was born in 1986 in Tallinn, Estonia. She is an actress, known for Lilja 4-ever (2002).
- Anastasiya Evgrafova was born on 17 October 1990 in Tallinn, Estonia. She is an actress, known for Vyzhivshie. Ogni (2021), Igra na vyzhivanie (2020) and Etyudy o svobode (2018).
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lenna Kuurmaa was born on 26 September 1985 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]. She is an actress, known for Kuhu põgenevad hinged (2007), Täitsa lõpp (2011) and IT-planeet (2011).- Actress
- Make-Up Department
Natalie Allikson was born on 9 October 2000 in Tallinn, Estonia. She is an actress, known for You Can Call Me John (2024).- Sound Department
- Additional Crew
Olger Bernadt was born on 1 July 1967 in Tallinn, Estonia. Olger is known for Kongen av Bastøy (2010), Kaikki synnit (2019) and Undergods (2020).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Writer
Martti Helde was born on 23 August 1987 in Tallinn, Estonia. He is an assistant director and director, known for Skandinaavia vaikus (2019), Risttuules (2014) and Superbia (2014).- Writer
- Director
- Animation Department
Priit Pärn was born on 26 August 1946 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]. He is a writer and director, known for Elu ilma Gabriella Ferrita (2008), 1895 (1995) and Eine murul (1987).- Natalya Sayko was born on 12 January 1948 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]. She is an actress, known for Sovsem propashchiy (1973), Lunnaya raduga (1983) and Vzryv zamedlennogo deystviya (1971).