Volli Käro

Known for

Acting

Born

December 13, 1940 (age 85)

Birthplace

Oparino, Oparinsky District, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR [now Russia]

Biography

Volli Käro (born Vladimir Käro; December 13, 1940) is an Estonian actor.

Volli Käro was born in Kirov Oblast in Russia to Estonian parents Fidrik and Erika Käro who had been resettled in the area as part of the Stolypin reform. He was one of eight siblings. At age four, the family were able to return to Estonia and settled for a while in Loksa and Vihula. Käro attended schools in Väike-Maarja before his father died when Käro was ten. Afterward, the family moved several more times. Because of his family's poor financial situation after the death of his father, he worked on a collective farm following primary school.

It was during a school trip to Tallinn that Käro became interested in theat...