Mart Toome | |
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Born |
Enge, Estonia |
7 March 1980
Nationality | Estonian |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2002 – present |
Children | 2 |
Mart Toome (born 7 March 1980) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actor.
Mart Toome was born Enge, Halinga Parish, in Pärnu County in 1980. He is a 2002 graduate of the EMA Higher Drama School (now the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn under direction of actor, director and theatre pedagogue Elmo Nüganen. Among his graduating classmates were actors: Elisabet Reinsalu, Priit Võigemast, Ott Aardam, Hele Kõrve, Karin Rask, Evelin Võigemast, Maria Soomets, and Argo Aadli.
Shortly following his graduation from the EMA Higher Drama School in 2002, Mart Toome began an engagement as an actor at the Tallinn City Theatre, where he is still currently employed. Some of his most memorable roles since joining the Tallinn City Theatre include those in stage productions by such varied international playwrights and authors as: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Yeats, Dumas, Chekhov, Steinbeck, Waugh, Ferenc Molnár, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, David Mamet, Sławomir Mrożek, Carlo Gozzi, Ann Jellicoe, Tennessee Williams, J. B. Priestley, and Otfried Preußler, among others. Among his more memorable performances in roles by Estonian playwrights and authors include those of: Eduard Vilde, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Jaan Tätte, Diana Leesalu, and Paavo Piik.