Mari Lill
| Mari Lill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 December 1945 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1968 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Tõnu Tamm (1968-present) |
| Children | Katariina Rebane (b. 1974) Elisabet Reinsalu (b. 1976) |
Mari Lill (born 21 December 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 is glass artist Ivo Lill. Lill grew up and attended schools in district of Nõmme and spent time visiting her grandmother on the island of Saaremaa.
After graduating from secondary school, Lill studied acting 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.
In 1968, following her graduation from the Tallinn State Conservatory, she joined the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic National Youth Theatre in Tallinn (now, the Tallinn City Theatre). Her first significant role at the Youth Theatre was in the role of Hedvig in a production of Henrik Ibsen's 1884 play The Wild Duck. Lill remained with the Youth Theatre for nine years, leaving in 1977. Prominent roles during her time at the Youth Theatre include those in works by such playwrights and authors as: Shakespeare, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Henrik Ibsen, N. Richard Nash, Andrus Kivirähk, and Anton Chekhov, amond others.
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