Biography
Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is an Estonian-Russian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake (2020). Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonia. His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher. His first cousin, once removed, is actor Volli Käro. After graduating from secondary school at Lasnamäe in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004. Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in The Sniffer, for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor. In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series Better than Us. In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series To the Lake. The show was acquired by Netflix and broadcast in October 2020.
Acted in 98
2020s
- 2026
Теория невероятностей
TV
Scarecrow
Anya's father
Жизнь после смерти
father
The Black Countess
TV
- 2025
Redemption
Movie
Constantinople
Бородаевский · 10 episodes
Dear Willie
Вилли Брандт · 4 episodes
How to Tame a Fox
TV
Berlin Heat
TV
In Search of Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev · 4 episodes
Cynics
Глеб Терехов · 10 episodes
Maestro
Movie
Something Positive
TV
MosGaz. Delo N11: Raffle
Хасанов · 8 episodes
Hypnosis
отец Григорий · 8 episodes
Summer Will Come
Movie
Man and Woman
Movie
Pavel. The First and the Last
TV
Chelyuskin. First
Отто Юльевич Шмидт · 6 episodes
Natali and Aleksandr
Коршунов · 12 episodes
- 2024
Gum
TV
Both are Two
Movie
Yug
папа 5 · 2 episodes
Abnormal
TV
Truth
Movie
Summer To Remember
Scientist
- 2023
Gloss
отец Анны · 8 episodes
Nina
Boris
Cerberus
TV
Syndrome
Кирилл
It Happens to People
Movie
Diagnosis is «Lucky»
Антон · 8 episodes
Live
Movie
Detector
Movie
God Complex
Alexey · 5 episodes
Social Network
TV
- 2022
Dad the Terrible
Nikita
Additional Lesson
Ilya Nesterov
Right to Freedom
TV
Like Father, Like Son
le chauffeur routier
Who's There?
Movie
Ask Martha
TV
Layer
Movie
- 2021
«Lucky»
Арье · 8 episodes
Insomnia
TV
Unreachable
Movie
Sunflower
Movie
Ivan's Happiness
Movie
8 Ways to Love
TV
Love and Monsters
Movie
- 2020
Passengers
Andrey · 8 episodes
Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut
Movie
Call Me Blackbird
Movie
Young and the Strong Will Survive
TV
Liters 2.0
TV
2010s
- 2019
Расплата
TV
Vongozero: The Outbreak
Sergey
- 2018
Живой
Олег Сорокин (журналист) · 16 episodes
The Voice of The Sea
Иван
Frontier
врач Лаврусенко
- 2017
Green Cats
Kirill
Консультант
Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук · 20 episodes
- 2016
Научи меня жить
TV
All That Jam
Fedka sosed
Passing Through
Movie
Rag Union
policeman
- 2015
Motherland
Хофман
Побег из Москвабада
Movie
- 2014
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
Waiter (segment The Constant)
Star
Movie
- 2013
Тайна Егора, или Необыкновенные приключения обыкновенным летом
Леонид, квартирант Алевтины Петровны, рыбак
- 2012
Legs - Atavism
Norvegov
Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov
Ruytel · 4 episodes
- 2011
Boris Godunov
Kurbskiy
Бесприданница
Movie
Insignificant Details of the Accidental Episode
He
A Late Summer's Night
Tom
The Afghan Caravan
Movie
Rat Trap
Pjotr
- 2010
The Man From the Nowhere
Алексей
Выхожу тебя искать
Григорий Тришин · 12 episodes
Red Mercury
Sämm
V Centuria. Searching For a Charmed Treasure
Yan Vilis
We Are from the Future 2
Movie
2000s
- 2009
Dove
Volodka Hippie
Help Gone Mad
grandson
- 2008
- 2007
Valery Kharlamov. Additional time
Movie
- 2005
Distance
Him
The Idiot
Movie
No release date
Casino
Chebotin · 8 episodes