Portrait of Kirill Käro

Kirill Käro

Acting

Biography

Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is an Estonian-Russian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake (2020). Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonia. His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher. His first cousin, once removed, is actor Volli Käro. After graduating from secondary school at Lasnamäe in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004. Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in The Sniffer, for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor. In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series Better than Us. In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series To the Lake. The show was acquired by Netflix and broadcast in October 2020.

Born: February 24, 1975

Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Filmography

2025
Дорогой Вилли

as Вилли Брандт

2025
2025
Scarecrow

as Anya's father

2025
Tsiniki

as Глеб Терехов

2025
Hypnosis

as отец Григорий

2025
Chelyuskin. First

as Отто Юльевич Шмидт

2025
Natali and Aleksandr

as Коршунов

2024
2024
2024
2024
Summer To Remember

as Scientist

2023
Gloss

as отец Анны

2023
Nina

as Boris

2023
Syndrome

as Кирилл

2023
2023
2023
God Complex

as Alexey

2022
2022
Additional Lesson

as Ilya Nesterov

2022
Like Father, Like Son

as le chauffeur routier

2022
2021
«Lucky»

as Арье

2020
Passengers

as Andrey

2019
To the Lake

as Sergey

2018
Better Than Us

as Georgy Safronov

2018
Живой

as Олег Сорокин (журналист)

2018
2018
Frontier

as врач Лаврусенко

2017
Green Cats

as Kirill

2017
Консультант

as Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук

2016
All That Jam

as Fedka sosed

2016
Rag Union

as policeman

2015
Motherland

as Хофман

2015
Infidelities

as Кирилл

2015
The Fencer

as Aleksey

2014
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes

as Waiter (segment The Constant)

2014
2013
The Sniffer

as детектив-консультант

2012
Legs - Atavism

as Norvegov

2011
Boris Godunov

as Kurbskiy

2011
Rat Trap

as Pjotr

2010
Chelovek Niotkuda

as Алексей

2010
Red Mercury

as Sämm

2009
Zhurov

as Kostya

2009
Dove

as Volodka Hippie

2009
Help Gone Mad

as grandson

2008
Глухарь

as Gena Kruglov - narkoman

2006
Girls

as Антон

2005
Distance

as Him