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