Margus Lepa is an Estonian actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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Early life and education

He was born in Pelgulinn

Pelgulinn

Pelgulinn is a subdistrict of Põhja-Tallinn in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located about 2 km northwest from the city centre. Pelgulinn borders Kalamaja to the east, Kelmiküla to the southeast, Lilleküla to the south, Merimetsa to the west, Pelguranna to the northwest, and...

, a subdistrict of Tallinn

Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...

, Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

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Film acting

Between 1970 and 1991, Lepa appeared in three films, all directed by Arvo Kruusement

Arvo Kruusement

Arvo Kruusement is an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films Spring and Fall The movie Spring has been noted as the best Estonian feature film in the Top Ten Poll hold by Estonian film critics and journalists in 2002...

 and based on a series of novels by
Oskar Luts

Oskar Luts

-Biography:Oskar Luts was born into a middle-class family in central Estonia, at that time in the government of Livonia . He attended Änkküla village school in 1894. He went to Palamuse Parish parish school in Jõgeva County, attending from 1895–1899. From 1899–1902 he studied at the Tartu...

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For the first film, Kevade (Spring) (1970), he appeared as Georg Adniel Kiir and then as Jorh Adniel Kiir in Suvi (Summer) (1976). These films were followed by his appearance as Kiir in Sügis (Autumn) (1991).

Filmography

Year	Title	Genre	Role	Notes
1970	Kevade	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...	Georg Adniel Kiir
1976	Suvi	comedy-drama Comedy-drama Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...	Jorh Adniel Kiir
1991	Sügis	comedy-drama Comedy-drama Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...	Kiir

Radio acting

For many years, he performed, together with Raimo Aas

Raimo Aas

Raimo Aas is an Estonian humorist.- Radio career :For many years, Raimo Aas performed together with Margus Lepa in the Sunday morning radio programme Meelejahutaja.- Performance prohibition :...

, in Meelejahutaja., a Sunday morning radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 programme.

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