Kirill Käro

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
February 24, 1975

Place of Birth:
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

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Kirill Käro

Biography

Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is a Russian actor of Estonian descent. 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.

Known For

Filmography

Year TV Show Role
2025 Hypnosis
2025 Chelyuskin. First Отто Юльевич Шмидт
2025 Pavel. The First and the Last
2025 Натали и Александр Коршунов
2025 МосГаз. Дело № 11: Розыгрыш Хасанов
2024 Yug
2024 Gum
2024 Abnormal
2023 Diagnosis is «Lucky» Антон
2023 Cerberus
2023 Gloss отец Анны
2023 Social Network
2023 God Complex Alexey
2022 Ask Martha
2022 Право на свободу
2021 «Lucky» Арье
2021 Insomnia
2021 8 Ways to Love
2020 Литра 2.0
2020 Passengers
2020 Passengers Andrey
2020 The young and the strong will survive
2019 Расплата
2019 To the Lake Sergey
2018 Живой Олег Сорокин (журналист)
2018 Better Than Us Georgy Safronov
2017 Консультант Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук
2016 Научи меня жить
2015 Infidelities Кирилл
2013 The Sniffer детектив-консультант
2012 Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov Ruytel
2009 Zhurov Kostya
2008 Глухарь Gena Kruglov - narkoman
Something Positive
How to Tame a Fox
The Black Countess
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