Tõnu Mikiver (2 August 1943 Loksa – 21 March 2017

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) was an

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n actor.

Career

In 1965 he graduated from the

Tallinn State Conservatory The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (''Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia'') began as a mixed choir of the Estonia Society Musical Department (EMD) on the eve of World War I. The assembly of the Estonia Society created the Tallinn Higher Musi ...

's Performing Arts Department. From 1965 until 1977, he worked at Estonian Youth Theatre and from 1977 until 2007, at the

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. Besides theatre roles, he has played also in several films.

Family

His older brother was an actor

Mikk Mikiver Mikk Mikiver (4 September 1937 – 9 January 2006) was a prominent Estonian stage and film actor and theater director. Biography Mikiver was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated from the State Conservatory of Tallinn in 1961. He then went ...

Selected filmography

* 1980: '' Metskannikesed'' (feature film; roll: Anti) * 1995: '' Tallinna legendid'' (animated film; in role: voice) * 2008: '' Tuulepealne maa'' (television series; in role: Einar Soodla) * 2010: '' Punane elavhõbe'' (feature film; in role: Eduard Janovitš) * 2012: '' Eestlanna Pariisis'' (feature film; in role: Endel)

References

1943 births 2017 deaths Estonian male stage actors Estonian male film actors Estonian male television actors 20th-century Estonian male actors 21st-century Estonian male actors Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni People from Loksa Soviet male actors {{Estonia-actor-stub