Kirill Käro Explained

Kirill Käro
Birth Name:Kirill Valerievich Käro
Birth Date:1975 2, df=y
Birth Place:Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:2002–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.

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.

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
YearTitleRoleNotes
2009Help Gone Mad
2011Insignificant Details of a Random EpisodeShort
Boris GodunovDmitry Andreevich Kurbsky
2015The FencerAleksei
2022PlastZhenya
2022Who's There?Pyotr
2022Terrible DadNikita Osipov
2022Dalyokiye blizkiye
2022Pryamoy efirAlexandr

Television

List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown
YearTitleRoleNotes
2007LiquidationSlava2 episodes
2013–17The SnifferThe Sniffer24 episodes
2015IzmenyKirill16 episodes
2017–19PsikhologiniMikhail Slutskiy22 episodes
2018–19Better than UsGeorgy Nikolaevich Safronov16 episodes
2019RasplataNikita Dolin8 episodes
To the Lake[9] Sergey8 episodes
2020–21PassengersAndrey8 episodes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 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 . 1 July 2024 . et.
  2. Web site: Кирилл Кяро биография. Биография Кирилл Кяро. Личная жизнь Кирилл Кяро. – Свободная Пресса . svpressa.ru . 1 July 2024 . ru.
  3. Web site: Кирилл Кяро. 13 October 2020. tele.ru. ru-RU.
  4. Web site: "Nuuskija" staar Kirill Käro: Moskvas olen ma täielik eestlane, Tallinnas aga venelane . Õhtuleht. Nataly. Koppel. 4 June 2014. 31 August 2019. et.
  5. Web site: Actor Kirill Käro: Personal Life, Biography, Film . sw.unansea.com . 2019.
  6. Web site: ActorKirill Käro . ivi.ru . 2019.
  7. Web site: Better than Us . Netflix . 2019.
  8. Web site: To the Lake . netflix.com . 2020.
  9. Web site: Kirill Käro Filmography (extracts) . kinoglaz.fr . 2019.