
Kirill Käro
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Redemption as
- 2025 · How to Tame a Fox as
- 2025 · Berlin Heat as
- 2025 · Scarecrow as Anya's father
- 2025 · Маэстро as
- 2025 · МосГаз. Дело № 11: Розыгрыш as Хасанов
- 2025 · Summer Will Come as
- 2025 · Man and Woman as
- 2025 · Natali and Aleksandr as Коршунов
- 2024 · Gum as
- 2024 · Both are Two as
- 2024 · Abnormal as
- 2023 · Gloss as отец Анны
- 2023 · Cerberus as
- 2023 · It Happens to People as
- 2023 · God Complex as Alexey
- 2022 · Dad the Terrible as Nikita
- 2021 · Unreachable as
- 2020 · Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut as
- 2020 · The young and the strong will survive as
- Future · The Black Countess as
- 2025 · In Search of Andrei Rublev as Andrei Rublev
- 2025 · Tsiniki as Глеб Терехов
- 2025 · Hypnosis as отец Григорий
- 2025 · Pavel. The First and the Last as
- 2025 · Chelyuskin. First as Отто Юльевич Шмидт
- 2024 · Yug as
- 2024 · Truth as
- 2024 · Summer To Remember as Scientist
- 2023 · Nina as Boris
- 2023 · Syndrome as Кирилл
- 2023 · Diagnosis is «Lucky» as Антон
- 2023 · Live as
- 2023 · Detector as
- 2023 · Social Network as
- 2022 · Neuro as
- 2022 · Право на свободу as
- 2022 · Additional Lesson as Ilya Nesterov
- 2022 · Like Father, Like Son as le chauffeur routier
- 2022 · Who's There? as
- 2022 · Ask Martha as
- 2022 · Layer as
- 2021 · «Lucky» as Арье
- 2021 · Insomnia as
- 2021 · Sunflower as
- 2021 · Ivan's Happiness as
- 2021 · 8 Ways to Love as
- 2021 · Love and Monsters as
- 2020 · Passengers as
- 2020 · Passengers as Andrey
- 2020 · Call Me Blackbird as
- 2020 · Литра 2.0 as
- 2019 · Расплата as
- 2019 · To the Lake as Sergey
- 2019 · Формат бабочки as
- 2019 · Vongozero: The Outbreak as Sergey
- 2018 · Better Than Us as Georgy Safronov
- 2018 · Живой as Олег Сорокин (журналист)
- 2018 · The Voice of The Sea as Иван
- 2018 · Frontier as врач Лаврусенко
- 2017 · Green Cats as Kirill
- 2017 · Консультант as Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук
- 2016 · Научи меня жить as
- 2016 · All That Jam as Fedka sosed
- 2016 · Rag Union as policeman
- 2015 · Motherland as Хофман
- 2015 · Infidelities as Кирилл
- 2015 · Побег из Москвабада as
- 2015 · The Fencer as Aleksey
- 2014 · Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes as Waiter (segment The Constant)
- 2014 · Star as
- 2013 · The Sniffer as детектив-консультант
- 2012 · Legs - Atavism as Norvegov
- 2012 · Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov as Ruytel
- 2011 · Boris Godunov as Kurbskiy
- 2011 · Бесприданница as
- 2011 · Insignificant Details of the Accidental Episode as He
- 2011 · A Late Summer's Night as Tom
- 2010 · V Centuria. Searching For a Charmed Treasure as Yan Vilis
- Future · Something Positive as
- 2011 · Rat Trap as Pjotr
- 2010 · Chelovek Niotkuda as Алексей
- 2010 · Red Mercury as Sämm
- 2010 · We Are from the Future 2 as
- 2009 · Zhurov as Kostya
- 2009 · Dove as Volodka Hippie
- 2009 · Help Gone Mad as grandson
- 2008 · Глухарь as Gena Kruglov - narkoman
- 2007 · Valery Kharlamov. Additional time as
- 2006 · Girls as Антон
- Future · Проездом as
- 2011 · The Afghan Caravan as
- 2005 · Distance as Him
- 2005 · The Idiot as