Mari Lill

Born: 1945-12-21

Mari Lill (born December 21, 1945) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress whose career began onstage in the late 1960s. Mari Lill was born in Tallinn to Felix Lill and Asta Lill (née Multer) just after the end of World War II and the Soviet occupation and annexation of Estonia. Her father Felix was arrested by Soviet authorities and spent several years sentenced to forced labor in the gulag system in Siberia when she was still an infant. He was later able to return to the family when Mari was quite young. Lill is the middle child of three siblings; she has an older sister Kadri, and her younger brother was glass artist Ivo Lill. Lill grew up and attended schools in the district of Nõmme and spent time visiting her grandmother on the island of Saaremaa. After graduating from secondary school, Lill studied acting under the supervision of course instructor Voldemar Panso at the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). Her diploma production was in the role of Helen Keller in a 1967 staging of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker. She graduated in 1968. Among her graduating classmates were actors Helle-Reet Helenurm, Katrin Karisma, Raivo Trass, Enn Klooren, Jaan Tooming, Peeter Jakobi, and Kalju Komissarov.


Placeholder

Firebird

as Old Lady
Released: 2021-10-29

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring...

Movie page

Autumn Ball

as Cashier #1
Released: 2007-09-13

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

Movie page

Free Money

as Granny Aino
Released: 2023-09-08

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

Movie page

Fire Lily

as Carer
Released: 2018-05-11

The mystical and thrilling drama asks what sort of reality can give our life meaning. The film...

Movie page

The Maggot Feeder

as Spider (voice)
Released: 2012-11-01

A man decides to kill his wife because she can’t have children. He builds a stone house on the...

Movie page

Games for Teenagers

as Robi's Mother
Released: 1985-11-28

A sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.

Movie page

Stolen Meeting

as Asta
Released: 1989-06-05

A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation...

Movie page

Jüri Rumm

as Madam Mihkel
Released: 1994-05-26

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

Movie page

Alien 2 or: The Return of Valdis in 17 Episodes

as Handbagless Old Lady
Released: 2024-04-01

Valdis returns after 20 years, his memory restored, but his hometown transformed. Despite the...

Movie page

The Monster

as Old Lady
Released: 2021-11-12

A story about young Cathy and her conjured up monster with an appetite for people. Fun at first,...

Movie page

Class Reunion

as Old Lady
Released: 2016-02-19

Three middle aged men are going to their high school reunion after 25 years and the troubles...

Movie page

Libarebased ja kooljad

as Kupeldaja
Released: 1998-06-05

Based on the tales of Chinese writer Pu Songling, the film depicts the romantic relationships of...

Movie page

Kratt

as Grandma
Released: 2020-11-13

Children are left at grandma's house without their smartphones. Real life seems rather boring...

Movie page

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

as Anton's Wife
Released: 1977-06-08

The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet...

Movie page

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

as Kai Savolainen (Virgin)
Released: 2017-11-25

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

Movie page

The Little Witch

as The Little Witch
Released: 1975-02-15

The little witch is already 127 years old, but that's no age for a real witch! She lives with a...

Movie page

Come Back, Lumumba

as uncredited
Released: 1992-08-12

Aurora, the new head of the culture centre in a small Estonian town, and her ward, nicknamed...

Movie page

Old Man Wants to Go Home

as Maile
Released: 1991-12-01

Toomas Simmo is a simple worker who has seen a lot of injustice and carelessness in his life....

Movie page

Revenge Office

as Krista Tuvi
First aired: 2009-04-30

A group of women create a organisation named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women...

TV Show page

Wikman's Boys

as Mrs. Laasik
First aired: 1995-01-08

Wikman's Boys is a 1994-year drama serial about the Wikman Private Gymnasium students from 1937...

TV Show page