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Kirill Käro

Kirill Käro
Käro in 2019
Born
Kirill Valerievich Käro

(1975-02-24) 24 February 1975 (age 49)
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationActor
Years active2002–present

Kirill Valeryevich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is an Estonian Russian actor.[1] He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake (2020).

Biography

Early years

Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union.[2] His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher.[3] His first cousin, once removed, is actor Volli Käro.[4] After graduating from secondary school at Lasnamäe in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow.[5] Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.[3]

Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004.[5]

Career

Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in The Sniffer, for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor.[6]

In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series Better than Us.[7]

In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series To the Lake. The show was acquired by Netflix and broadcast in October 2020.[8]

Selected filmography

Film

List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown
Year Title Role Notes
2009 Help Gone Mad
2011 Insignificant Details of a Random Episode Short
Boris Godunov Dmitry Andreevich Kurbsky
2015 The Fencer Aleksei
2022 Plast Zhenya
2022 Who's There? Pyotr
2022 Terrible Dad Nikita Osipov
2022 Dalyokiye blizkiye
2022 Pryamoy efir Alexandr

Television

List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown
Year Title Role Notes
2007 Liquidation Slava 2 episodes
2013–17 The Sniffer The Sniffer 24 episodes
2015 Izmeny Kirill 16 episodes
2017–19 Psikhologini[9][7] Mikhail Slutskiy 22 episodes
2018–19 Better than Us[9][7] Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov 16 episodes
2019 Rasplata Nikita Dolin 8 episodes
To the Lake[8][9] Sergey 8 episodes
2020–21 Passengers Andrey 8 episodes

References

  1. ^ "Eestis sündinud vene näitleja Kirill Käro: Tallinnas pere juures käimiseks olen teinud vähemalt kümme koroonatesti" [Estonian-born Russian actor Kirill Käro: I have taken at least ten corona tests to visit my family in Tallinn]. Kroonika (in Estonian). Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Кирилл Кяро биография. Биография Кирилл Кяро. Личная жизнь Кирилл Кяро. – Свободная Пресса". svpressa.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Кирилл Кяро". tele.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. ^ Koppel, Nataly (4 June 2014). ""Nuuskija" staar Kirill Käro: Moskvas olen ma täielik eestlane, Tallinnas aga venelane" (in Estonian). Õhtuleht. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Actor Kirill Käro: Personal Life, Biography, Film". sw.unansea.com. 2019.
  6. ^ "ActorKirill Käro". ivi.ru. 2019.
  7. ^ a b c "Better than Us". Netflix. 2019.
  8. ^ a b "To the Lake". netflix.com. 2020.
  9. ^ a b c "Kirill Käro Filmography (extracts)". kinoglaz.fr. 2019.
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