Katrin Välbe
Katrin Välbe (until 1929 Jekaterina Poska; October 31, 1904 – July 5, 1981) was an Estonian actress. Katrin Välbe was born Jekaterina Poska in Võru to Gabriel and Lydia Poska. Her father was a lawyer and her uncles included statesman Jaan Poska, politician Mihkel Poska, and Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church clergymen Nikolai and Paul Poska.
After graduating from secondary school, she initially enrolled at the University of Tartu in 1922 to study medical sciences, leaving after one year. In 1930, she graduated from the Drama Theatre School in Tallinn, having studied under drama pedagogue Hilda Gleser.
From 1931 until 1944, she worked at Tallinna Töölisteater, from 1945 until 1946 at Noorsooteater, 1946 until 1949 at Estonia Theatre, and from 1949 until 1951 and again from 1952 until 1971 at Estonian Drama Theatre. Besides theatrical roles, she also performed as a film actress beginning in the early 1950s, as well as appearing in radio plays and several television films.
In 1958, Välbe was awarded as Meritorious Artist of the Estonian SSR.
Acting
Movie
Summer
as Parish Clerk's Wife
1976
Movie
Naughty Curves
1959
Movie
A Woman Heats the Sauna
as Aita
1979
Movie
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
1977
Movie
The Sun and the Rain
as Commandant
1960
Movie
Bonycrone and Captain Drum
as (voice)
1979
Movie
Forest Captain
as Woman with a Monkey
1972
Movie
Kui saabub õhtu
as Innkeeper's wife
1955
Movie
Ice Run
as Maris Jõgel
1963
Movie
In the Backyard
as Veika
1957
Movie
Between Three Plagues
as Beggar at Church (uncredited)
1970
Movie
Underwater Reefs
1959
Movie
Gladiator
as Reet
1971
Movie
Windy Beach
as Anu
1971
Movie
Traces
1964
Movie
Pöördel
as Anu Vutt
1957
Movie
Little Requiem for Harmonica
1972
TV
Pimedad aknad
1969
Movie
Watercolors of One Summer
as Juula
1967