Katariina Unt

Born: 1971-12-06

Katariina Unt (born Katariina Lauk; December 6, 1971) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actress. Katariina Unt was born in Tallinn. Her mother is interior decorator Malle Lauk and her father is artist Tõnu Lauk, who works mainly with metals. The youngest of four siblings, she grew up mostly in Pärnu. She graduated in 1990 from Pärnu Hansa Secondary School, then completed her studies in Tallinn at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Drama School in 1994 (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). Her graduating classmates included Mait Malmsten, Ain Mäeots, Liisa Aibel, Ago Anderson, Indrek Sammul, and Andres Puustusmaa. Between 1994 and 2001, she was engaged at the Tallinn City Theatre. Following her departure, she worked for a while as a freelance actor, performing at the Estonia Theatre, Endla Theatre and the Kuressaare Town Theatre, among others. In 2007, she joined the VAT Theatre in Tallinn, where she still currently performs. Among her more memorable roles in theater were in works by: William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Madis Kõiv, Molière, Tadeusz Różewicz, Luchino Visconti, Tom Stoppard, Andrus Kivirähk, August Kitzberg and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, among many others. Katariina Unt made her film debut as Mari in the 1994 Jaan Kolberg-directed film Jüri Rumm. This was followed by a recurring role on the popular ETV drama series Õnne 13. In 2013, she appeared in the Kanal 2 paranormal-thriller television series Süvahavva. Her first large film role was that of Eetla in the 2003 Sulev Keedus-directed war drama Somnambuul (English: Somnambulance). Other popular roles were in films such as Katrin Laur's Ruudi (2006), Veiko Õunpuu's Sügisball (Autumn Ball, 2007), Sulev Keedus' Kirjad Inglile (Letters to Angel, 2011) and Rainer Sarnet's Idioot (The Idiot, 2011), a starring role as Viivi in the 2016 Mart Kivastik directed romantic drama Õnn tuleb magades opposite actor Ivo Uukkivi and in Rainer Sarnet's November, 2017, based on the novel by Andrus Kivirähk. In many of her earlier film and television appearances, she is credited as Katariina Lauk (her birthname) and Katariina Lauk-Tamm (while married to Raivo E. Tamm). In 1993 she married actor Indrek Sammul, the couple divorced in 1995. In 1997, she wed actor Raivo E. Tamm, however, the two would divorce in 2003. Unt and Tamm have a daughter. In 2011, she remarried once again, taking her husband's surname Unt.


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Deliver Us

as Train Attendant
Released: 2023-08-30

When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests...

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Undergods

as Female Supervisor
Released: 2020-11-21

An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy...

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November

as Luise
Released: 2017-02-03

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the...

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Autumn Ball

as Woman at the Literature Conference
Released: 2007-09-13

Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous...

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The Temptation of St. Tony

as Actor's Wife
Released: 2009-10-10

A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he...

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Letters to Angel

as Hildegard Vilt
Released: 2011-01-27

A man sent to Afghanistan years earlier converts to Islam, then returns home to fight a...

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Free Money

as Recycling Station Lady
Released: 2023-09-08

Where would you look for help if the bank refused your loan application, which you saw as so...

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Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

as Tato (Manslayer)
Released: 2017-11-25

The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago....

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Somnambulance

as Eetla
Released: 2003-09-19

Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching...

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Lost and Found

as (segment "Gene+Ratio")
Released: 2005-02-10

Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of "generation".

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The Curse of the Werewolf

as Liina Alter / Tiina
Released: 2005-01-01

Liina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist...

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Stairway to Heaven

as Young Ruth
Released: 2023-03-03

With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an...

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The Idiot

as Nastasja Filippovna
Released: 2011-10-09

A story of a naive man, whose direct behavior stirs in people moral unrest, rage and...

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Rothschild's Violin

as uncredited
Released: 1996-12-18

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story...

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Ruudi

as Karmen
Released: 2006-02-24

A family comedy about a 7-year-old boy, who's a devoted viking fan.

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The Polar Boy

as Mattias' Mother
Released: 2016-05-10

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey...

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When You Least Expect It

as Viivi
Released: 2016-10-13

There are two people who wake up in the same bed one morning, and neither of them has a clue who...

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Shift

as Mare
Released: 2011-04-13

When Miina, a seemingly well-off woman is caught shoplifting, the female officer truly uses her...

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Jüri Rumm

as Mari
Released: 1994-05-26

Jüri Rumm is a hot-tempered young peasant who is not afraid of either German barons or the...

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The Lion Blanket

as Berta
Released: 2020-10-16

Berta's sister Helena has gone missing and there is little hope of finding her. Berta visits the...

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