Ivo Uukkivi
| Ivo Uukkivi | |
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| Born |
11 October 1965 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Other names | Munk |
| Occupation | Actor, singer, television producer |
| Years active | 1980 – present |
| Children | 2 |
Ivo Uukkivi (born 11 October 1965) is an Estonian stage, film, radio, and television actor, television producer, and founder and singer known by the nickname Munk with the punk band Velikije Luki.
Ivo Uukkivi was born in Tallinn. He was one of two siblings. He is a 1980 graduate of Tallinn 2nd Secondary School (now, Tallinn Secondary School of Science). Afterward, he attended Tallinn Polytechnic School, graduating in 1984. He is a 1992 graduate of the Tallinn Conservatory's (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) Performing Arts Department. Uukkivi's diploma production roles include Snug in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Man in Purple in Mati Unt's Emperor Nero's Privare Life.
In 1991, Uukkivi made his stage debut at Tallinn's Estonian Drama Theatre in a production of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. In 1992, he would begin an engagement as an actor at the theatre, where he is still currently employed. Uukkivi's stage debut as an actor formally engaged at the theatre was as Manuel in a production of Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady. During his long career at the Estonian Drama Theatre, he has appeared in over seventy roles in stage productions of works by such varied international authors and playwrights as: Yasmina Reza, Eugene O'Neill, Michel de Ghelderode, Sławomir Mrożek, Tankred Dorst, Henrik Ibsen, Frank Wedekind, Peter Shaffer, Tony Kushner, Charles Dickens, J. B. Priestley, Ray Cooney, Ayn Rand, Arthur Miller, Evgeny Schwartz, Brian Friel, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Victor Pelevin, Roald Dahl, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Rulfo, Lyle Kessler, Tom Stoppard, and Anton Chekhov, among others. Among his more memorable performances in roles by Estonian playwrights and authors include those of: Uku Uusberg, Martin Algus, Vaino Vahing, Andrus Kivirähk, Oskar Luts, Madis Kõiv, and Eduard Vilde.
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