Katrin Pärn

Katrin Pärn born May 20 1977 is an Estonian stage film and television actress and singer Katrin Pärn was born in Tallinn to actor theatre founder and director Eino Baskin 19292015 and actress and politician Malle Pärn born 1945 She had one older halfbrother actor Roman Baskin 19542018 from her fathers first marriage to actress Ita Ever She attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn before enrolling at the EMA Higher Drama School now the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre graduating in 2000 under the direction of Ingo Normet In 2008 she received a masters degree in the dramatic arts from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre She has also lived and studied abroad in the United States New Zealand and Germany From 2000 to 2008 Pärn was engaged as at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu where she performed in roles as both an actress and in musical productions Some of her more memorable roles at the Vanemuine include Peemont in a production of Mikhail Bulgakovs The Master and Margarita Linda in Willy Russells Blood Brothers Abigail Williams in Arthur Millers The Crucible Rebecca in Gabriel García Márquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude and Lora in Vaino Vahings Stars in a Morning Sky In 2010 Katrin Pärn appeared at the Tartu New Theatre in a production of the Ivar Põllu penned and directed Ird K about controversial Estonian theatre actor and stage pedagogue Kaarel Ird For her performance Pärn would be nominated for Best Actress by the Estonian Theatre Union Katrin Pärn made her television debut as an actress in 2007 on an episode of the Eesti Televisioon ETV crimedrama series Ohtlik lend She would go on to make appearances in several popular Estonian series such as the Kanal 2 crimedrama Kelgukoerad in 2010 the Kanal 2 crimedrama Viimane võmm in 2014 and the Kanal 2 drama Restart in 2015 In 2016 Pärn made her featurelength film debut in a supporting role as Maret in the Mart Kivastik directed comedydrama Õnn tuleb magades for Kopli Kinokompanii and Vintage Pictures starring Katariina Unt and Ivo Uukkivi The following year she appeared as Ode in the Sulev Keedus directed drama film MehetapjaSüütuVari The ManslayerThe VirginThe Shadow