Pääru Oja
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.518 |
| Birthday | 1989-05-16 |
| Place of Birth | Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia] |
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2022
Hit Big
5.636/11
Marjaleena, a 60-year-old drunk ex-beauty pageant, runs a low end bar in Spain’s Costa del Sol. She discovers that her criminal husband Worm is about...
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Hit Big
2023
The Vacationers
5.7/3
Fisherman Ärni has decided to take vacationers for midsummer due to the poor catch of fish. The plan is not bad, but extremely troublesome guests arri...
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The Vacationers
2024
The Shadow
6.6/14
Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the Wild West of the crumbling Russian Empire in the...
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The Shadow
2015
1944
6.868/114
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight aga...
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1944
2013
Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
3.3/3
In a quiet resort town Haapsalu four kids are spending their summer holidays together. Suddenly they are dragged into events that started in the 15th...
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Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
2023
Faulty Brides
7/1
The owner of the Lipuvere farm decides to marry his daughters off to wealthy suitors from the Mulgi Parish. However, the hearts of the girls already b...
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Faulty Brides
2016
The Spy and The Poet
5.2/5
Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is...
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The Spy and The Poet
2018
Mihkel
5.8/6
Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himse...
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Mihkel
2020
The Last Ones
4.5/13
Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the deso...
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The Last Ones
2018
The Riddle of Jaan Niemand
5/3
After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lackin...
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand
2018
Between Covers
0/0
In the snowy and secluded Estonian forest, Marti lives his life through routine. Haunted by his past bad judgement, he has become distant and lifeless...
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Between Covers
2020
Goodbye Soviet Union
5.4/17
Johannes, a young Ingrian Finn, grows up in Soviet Estonia with his liberal student mother and pro-Soviet grandmother. The boy's life is revolutionize...
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Goodbye Soviet Union
2020
Dawn of War
6.1/17
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
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Dawn of War
2020
Look What You Made Me Do
6/1
Ingmar is a narcissist with relationship issues and repeatedly manipulates and emotionally abuses his partners creating a cyclical panern of behavior.
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Look What You Made Me Do
2020
Helene
6.2/17
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and He...
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Helene
2020
Christmas in the Jungle
6/1
Moving from Latvia to exotic Indonesia has proven to be quite a challenge for Paula’s (10) family. Her Mother has a hard time adapting to the country....
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Christmas in the Jungle
2024
Sad Inheritance
0/0
A theatre director and his father clash over portraying abuse in a rehearsal, reflecting conflicting approaches in directing actors and their real-lif...
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Sad Inheritance
2025
One-Dimensional Man
4/1
Raul's father Viktor, a Soviet-era Estonian militia officer, shaped his son with communist ideology. Raul was raised in a violent and pathological att...
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One-Dimensional Man
2026
The Suitors
0/0
Young Lydia, who has unexpectedly received two declarations of love from two different young men, travels to the countryside to visit good friends to...
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The Suitors
2025
Sisu: Road to Revenge
7.3/712
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is...
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
2026
The Kidnapping of a President
0/0
In October 1930, a group of officers belonging to the Finnish army's top leadership decided, after a night of drinking, to kidnap Finland's retired fi...
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The Kidnapping of a President
2026
Our Erika
8/1
The inspiring journey of Estonian track bicycle racer Erika Salumäe, as she navigates the pressures of fame, personal sacrifice, and national pride, r...
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Our Erika
2026
Vinski 2
0/0
The town of Hömpstad is once again under threat from criminals and Vinski's help is needed. When the criminals manage to steal the invisibility powder...
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Vinski 2
2017
Säde
0/0
Tristan, a single father in his thirties, has spent the past few years in prison for causing a house fire which seriously injured his little daughter....
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