Volli Käro
| Volli Käro | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 December 1940 Kirov Oblast, Russia, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Spouse(s) | Viive Käro (née Aamisepp) |
Volli Käro (born 13 December 1940) is an Estonian actor who is possibly best known for his long engagement as a stage actor at the Rakvere Teater in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia. He has also appeared in several film and television roles.
Volli Käro was born in Kirov Oblast in Russia to Estonian parents Fidrik and Erika Käro who had been resettled in the area as part of the Stolypin reform. He was one of eight siblings. At age four, the family were able to return to Estonia and settled for a while in Loksa and Vihula. Karo attended schools in Väike-Maarja before his father died when Käro was ten. Afterward, the family moved several more times. Because of his family's poor financial situation after the death of his father, he worked on a collective farm following primary school.
It was during a school trip to Tallinn that Karo became interested in theatre after watching Estonian ballerina Helmi Puur perform in Swan Lake. Afterward, he took dance lessons. After graduating high school in 1960, he began working at the Väike-Maarja cultural centre as an artistic instructor, then the artistic director and finally the director. In 1964, he applied to the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Drama School (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) to work under the tutelage of theatre actor and director Voldemar Panso, but was not accepted.
In 1964, he was offered an engagement at the Rakvere Teater; Käro would spend over fifty years with the company. Among his more memorable roles in theater were in works by: Arthur Miller, Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, A. H. Tammsaare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, August Kitzberg, Harold Pinter and Eno Raud. For his long career in the theatre he was made an honorary member of the Estonian Association of Actors, decorated by the city of Rakvere and was nominated for the Estonian Theatre Union prize in 2009.
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