Kalju Orro
Date of birth: 1952-03-27
Place of birth: Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Kalju Orro (born March 27, 1952) is an Estonian stage, film and television actor, acting instructor, lecturer, theatre producer, and pedagogue. Kalju Orro was born in Tartu, where he attended primary and secondary schools. He is a 1970 graduate of Tartu 17 Vocational School. Afterward, he enrolled in the Vanemuine Drama Studios in Tartu, graduating in 1971. In 1972, he enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) under instruction of actor and theatre pedagogue Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1976. Among his graduating classmates were Merle Karusoo, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Urmas Kibuspuu, Lembit Peterson, Aare Laanemets, Jüri Krjukov, Anne Paluver, Külliki Tool, Priit Pedajas, Eero Spriit, and Peeter Volkonski.
Movie Credits
Spring
1970-01-05
Paunvere parish school students Arno and Teele, Toots and Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik experience feeli
How the King Wished to Go to the Moon
2024-04-27
A story about a king, who one day decides he needs to get to the moon, no matter what it takes.
The Curse of the Werewolf
2005-01-01
Liina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist versio
Green Cats
2017-11-20
This is a story of two old folks, who have spent most of their lives behind prison walls. Now, as se
Mindless
2006-10-06
A rich businessman moves to countryside to give his life a meaning.
Fish Day
1989-12-17
Human life in the absurd of the everyday
Justice
2009-05-01
A stranger who wanders to a desolate farm is captured and accused of arson. If the man is guilty, it
Wishes from the Well
2022-12-09
The story of a man caught between the gears of life, who has to find the missing pennies to buy medi
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992-12-18
A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The
Daisy Petal Game
1978-09-11
A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The actio
Touched by the Unknown
2005-01-01
Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seem
Truth and Justice
2019-02-22
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spitefu
On the Water
2021-09-10
Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian to
Surmatants
1991-11-07
A historical costume drama where the fragments of the adventurous lives of Bernt Notke, one of the m