Elsa Ratassepp

Known for

Acting

Born

March 7, 1893

Died

May 4, 1972 (aged 79)

Biography

Elsa Ratassepp (March 7, 1893 – May 4, 1972), was an Estonian stage, radio and film actress whose career spanned over fifty years.

Elsa Ratassepp was born in Raadi-Kruusamäe, a neighbourhood of Tartu. She joined the Vanemuine theatre as an actress in 1916 and was later a founder and actress in the travelling Rändteater based in Tallinn. The Rändteater troupe lasted from 1926 until 1928.

Ratassepp had a long stage career throughout the 1910s and into the late 1960s. However, she didn't make a film appearance until the 1959 Juli Kun and Kaljo Kiisk directed comedy Vallatud kurvid for Tallinna Kinostuudio. This was followed by the role of Triinu in the 1962 Igor Jeltsov directed melodrama Ühe...