Eero Spriit

Born

1949-09-04

Birthplace

Pärnu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Biography

Eero Spriit (born September 4, 1949), is an Estonian actor, theatre producer and director, and film and television producer. Spriit's career as an actor began in the early 1970s. Eero Spriit was born as one of two children in Pärnu to journalist, satirist, and politician Edgar Spriit and journalist Ester Spriit (née Tartu). His parents divorced when he was young and his father married dancer and dance pedagogue Elonna Goretski. From this union, he has a half-brother, Egon Spriit. In 1972, he enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn to study acting under course supervisor Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1976. Among his graduating classmates were Merle Karusoo, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Aare Laanemets, Kalju Orro, Jüri Krjukov, Anne Paluver, Priit Pedajas, Lembit Peterson, Külliki Tool, Urmas Kibuspuu, and Peeter Volkonski.