Eero Spriit

Actor

Eero Spriit

Born September 4, 1949 in Pärnu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]12 films

Eero Spriit (born September 4, 1949), is an Estonian actor, theatre producer and director, and film and television producer. Spriit's career as an actor began in the early 1970s.

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Eero Spriit was born as one of two children in Pärnu to journalist, satirist, and politician Edgar Spriit and journalist Ester Spriit (née Tartu). His parents divorced when he was young and his father married dancer and dance pedagogue Elonna Goretski. From this union, he has a half-brother, Egon Spriit. In 1972, he enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn to study acting under course supervisor Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1976. Among his graduating classmates were Merle Karusoo, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Aare Laanemets, Kalju Orro, Jüri Krjukov, Anne Paluver, Priit Pedajas, Lembit Peterson, Külliki Tool, Urmas Kibuspuu, and Peeter Volkonski.

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Purge posterFirst watchPurge20126.8as MilitiaA supporting role in one of the best-rated films of their career.Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house.View film

Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. 2024How the King Wished to Go to the MoonUncle
  2. 2018Fire LilyDoctor
  3. 2014Zero PointPrincipal
  4. 2013Daisy Petal Game 2Olev (segment "Silver Wedding")
  5. 2012PurgeMilitia
  6. 2003Made in EstoniaVäino
  7. 1997All My LeninsLenin VI (Monk)
  8. 1991Surmatants
  9. 1984Two Couples and Lonelinessepisood
  10. 1982The TriangleViktor (voice) (uncredited)
  11. 1977Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
  12. 1973Don Juan in TallinnDon Spoletti