Pääru Oja
Biography
Pääru Oja (born May 16, 1989) is an Estonian stage, film, voice, and television actor. Pääru Oja was born in Tallinn, the youngest of two sons. His father is actor Tõnu Oja and his older brother is Estonian Theatre Festival CEO and theatre manager Kaarel Oja, who is married to actress Ursula Ratasepp. His uncle is actor, director and theatre instructor Rein Oja. He attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn before being accepted to the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, where he graduated from in 2012 under course supervisor Elmo Nüganen. Oja's diploma roles included Father of Toulon in Peter Barnes' Red Noses (2010), Joseph Wykowski in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and Argante in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid (2011). Among his graduating classmates were: Henrik Kalmet, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Priit Pius, Märt Pius, Liis Lass, Piret Krumm, Maiken Schmidt, and Kaspar Velberg.
Known For
All Movies (24)
- The Kidnapping of a President2026 · as Colonel Viklund
- The Suitors2026 · as Peeter
- Our Erika2026 · as Jaanus Kuum
- Vinski 22026
- Sisu: Road to Revenge2025 · as Militsioner
- One-Dimensional Man2025 · as Bandit
- Sad Inheritance2024 · as Erik
- The Shadow2024 · as Juhan Liiv
- Faulty Brides2023 · as Jaak
- The Vacationers2023 · as Ivo
- Hit Big2022 · as Ninja
- Christmas in the Jungle2020 · as Andreas
- Look What You Made Me Do2020
- The Last Ones2020 · as Rupi
- Dawn of War2020 · as Peeter Parik
- Goodbye Soviet Union2020 · as Uncle Kolja
- Helene2020 · as Priest
- Between Covers2018 · as Ott
- Mihkel2018 · as Mihkel
- The Riddle of Jaan Niemand2018 · as Tiidrik
- Säde2017 · as Tristan
- The Spy and The Poet2016 · as Siim
- 19442015 · as Medic Elmar Säinas
- Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady2013 · as Evaristus
All TV Shows (7)
- The Agency2024 · as Man in Tracksuit / Special OP
- Valhalla Project2024
- Vikings: Valhalla2022 · as Arne Gormsson
- Shadow and Bone2021 · as Mogens
- Cold Courage2020 · as David Vervloet
- EnsV2019 · as Velts
- Lõks2018 · as Alex