Kirill Valeryevich Käro (russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is a Russian-Estonian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of '' The Sniffer'' (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the

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sci-fi series ''

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'' (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series ''

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'' (2020).

Biography

Early years

Kirill Käro was born in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

, Estonia. His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher. His first cousin, once removed, is actor

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. After graduating from secondary school at

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in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the

Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute The Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (russian: Театральный институт имени Бориса Щукина) is a Russian drama college in Moscow, formed in 1914 as part of the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 2002 it was granted the Academy ...

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. Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan (russian: Армен Борисович Джигарханян; hy, Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան, Armen Borisi Jigarkhanyan; ; 3 October 1935 – 14 November 2020) was a Soviet, Armenian, and Rus ...

. Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004.

Career

Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in '' The Sniffer'', for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor. In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series ''

''. In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series ''

''. The show was acquired by

and broadcast in October 2020.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Käro, Kirill Male actors from Tallinn 1975 births Living people Estonian male film actors Estonian male television actors Estonian male stage actors 21st-century Estonian male actors Estonian people of Russian descent Estonian expatriates in Russia