Pääru Oja
Actor
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.
Filmography
1944
as Medic Elmar Säinas 2015
Goodbye Soviet Union
as Uncle Kolja 2020
Dawn of War
as Peeter Parik 2020
Helene
as Priest 2020
The Last Ones
as Rupi 2020
Hit Big
as Ninja 2022
Mihkel
as Mihkel 2018
The Spy and The Poet
as Siim 2016
The Vacationers
as Ivo 2023
Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
as Evaristus 2013
The Riddle of Jaan Niemand
as Tiidrik 2018
Faulty Brides
as Jaak 2023
Look What You Made Me Do
2020
Christmas in the Jungle
as Andreas 2020
One-Dimensional Man
as Bandit 2025
The Shadow
as Juhan Liiv 2024