Name
Pääru Oja
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1989-05-16 (37 years old)
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]
Biography
Pääru Oja (born May 16, 1989) is an Estonian stage, film, voice, and television actor.
Pääru Oja was born in Tallinn, the youngest of two sons. His father is actor Tõnu Oja and his older brother is Estonian Theatre Festival CEO and theatre manager Kaarel Oja, who is married to actress Ursula Ratasepp. His uncle is actor, director and theatre instructor Rein Oja. He attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn before being accepted to the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, where he graduated from in 2012 under course supervisor Elmo Nüganen. Oja's diploma roles included Father of Toulon in Peter Barnes' Red Noses (2010), Joseph Wykowski in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and Argante in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid (2011). Among his graduating classmates were: Henrik Kalmet, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Priit Pius, Märt Pius, Liis Lass, Piret Krumm, Maiken Schmidt, and Kaspar Velberg.
Known For
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Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who...
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Johannes, a young Ingrian Finn, grows up in Soviet Estonia with his liberal student mother...
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A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with unc...
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Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, wor...
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- 2016 The Spy and The Poet as Siim
- 2018 Mihkel as Mihkel
- 2020 The Last Ones as Rupi
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- 2020 Goodbye Soviet Union as Uncle Kolja
- 2020 Dawn of War as Peeter Parik
- 2020 Look What You Made Me Do
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- 2019 EnsV ( 1 episode ) as Velts
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- 2024 Valhalla Project ( 6 episodes )
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