Tiit Lilleorg

Tiit Lilleorg November 25 1941 January 15 2021 was an Estonian stage film and television actor and cofounder and director of the Ida Dance School Tiit Lilleorg was born in Tartu Estonia His father Toivo Lilleorg was a journalist and his mother was soprano and musician Helga Lilleorg née Hansson Lilleorg grew up with the theatre as his mother performed as a choral singer soloist concertmaster and teacher at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu He studied acting at the Tallinn State Conservatory now the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre from 1961 until 1963 and the Leningrad Conservatory from 1966 until 1968 From 1967 until 1976 he worked as an actor and the head of production at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu and from 1976 until 1980 he was the theatres administrator From 1980 until 1992 and again in 1994 he returned to the stage as an actor at the Vanemuine Apart from the stage Tiit Lilleorg has performed as an actor in a number of television and film roles In 1983 he starred in the Enn Vetemaa penned AgoEndrik Kerge directed Eesti Televisioon ETV comedy film Püha Susanna ehk meistrite kool in the role of Simeon Wolf opposite Ita Ever and Urmas Kibuspuu This was followed by the role of Aleksander Sõõritsa in the AgoEndrik Kerge directed television drama film Võtmeküsimus in 1986 Other prominent roles were that of Sass in the 2005 Rainer Sarnet directed feature film Libahundi needus and as Professor Kantemir in the 2007 Rasmus Merivoo directed comedy film Buratino based on the 1936 book The Golden Key or the Adventures of Buratino by Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy which was itself based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi He also appeared in a number of other Estonian television films and series such as ITplaneet and Kättemaksukontor In 2015 he appeared in the Margus Paju directed actionadventure film Supilinna Salaselts In 2017 he appeared in the Priit Pääsuke directed feature film drama Keti lõpp In 2020 he appeared in the Margus Paju directed World War II spy film O2 Lilleorgs last film appearance was a small role in the Englishlanguage American Netflix miniseries The Queens Gambit in 2020