Mari Lill

Acting Dec 21, 1945 (81 years old) Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

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.

24 Acting Credits

Mari Lill

Acting

Firebird

Autumn Ball

Smile at Last

Class Reunion

Kratt

Stolen Meeting

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

Blood Stone

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

Alien 2 or: The Return of Valdis in 17 Chapters

Jüri Rumm

Two of Me

The Boys of Wikman

Revenge Office

Come Back, Lumumba

Free Money

Dragonflies and Coliaths

Old Man Wants to Go Home

Sunday Only

The Monster

The Maggot Feeder

The Little Witch

Fire Lily

Baa-Baa!