Jaan Rekkor
| Jaan Rekkor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 April 1958 Hõreda, Juuru Parish, Rapla County, Estonia |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1980 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Anu Lembra |
| Children | 3 |
Jaan Rekkor (born 3 April 1958) is an Estonian, stage, film and television actor.
Jaan Rekkor was born in the small village of Hõreda in Rapla County. He attended schools in Märjamaa, graduating from the Ants Lauter Märjamaa Secondary School in 1976 (now, Märjamaa Gymnasium). Between 1976 and 1979, he studied journalism at the University of Tartu. He then studied acting at the Tallinn State Conservatory's Performing Arts Department (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), graduating in 1982.
Following his graduation from the Tallinn State Conservatory, Rekkor began an engagement as a stage actor at the Endla Theatre in Pärnu in 1982 where, to date, he has appeared in approximately one hundred stage roles and productions. In 2005, he began an engagement at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. His first appearance at the Estonian Drama Theatre was a small role of a Native-American in a production of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in 1980. However, his first role at the Estonian Drama Theatre as an actor engaged at the theatre was as Othello in William Shakespeare's Othello in 2005. Rekkor is currently still engaged as an actor at both theatres and divides his time between the two.
During his many years onstage as a threatre actor, Rekkor has received a number of awards and acknowledgements, among them:
Rekkor's first significant film role came in 1983 as the character Jaanus Roog in the Kaljo Kiisk directed film Nipernaadi, based on the 1928 novel Toomas Nipernaadi by Estonian writer August Gailit. This was followed in 1986 by the role of Jaan Kreuks in the Kaljo Kiisk directed and Mati Unt penned Tallinnfilm biographical drama Saja aasta pärast mais about leading Estonian Communist Party politician Viktor Kingissepp. In 1989, he played the role of Peeter Kängsepp in the Jüri Sillart directed historical drama Äratus, which chronicled "Operation Priboi"; the 25 March to 28 March 1949 Soviet mass deportation of more than 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians labeled as enemies of the people to forced settlements in inhospitable areas of the Soviet Union.
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