Raine Loo (28 March 1945 – 16 May 2020) was an stage, television and film actress.
Early life and education
Raine Loo was born in the former Taevere Parish in
Viljandi County, which is now part of Põhja-Sakala Parish. She attended No. 8 School in
Tartu (now, the Tartu Forselius School), graduating in 1963. Afterward, she studied acting at the
Vanemuine teaching studio, where she graduated in 1965.
Stage career
In 1965, Loo became engaged at the Vanemuine theatre as an actress. Her first major role at the Vanemuine was that of Ingrid in a 1965 production of
Mati Unt's
See maailm või teine.
Notable performances at the Vanemuine have included roles in works by such varied international authors and playwrights as: Shakespeare,
Anton Chekhov, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, T. S. Eliot, Molière,
Maxim Gorky, Ion Druță, Friedrich Schiller, Witold Gombrowicz and
Arthur Miller, among others.
Roles in productions of Estonian authors and playwrights include:
Lilli Promet,
Oskar Luts,
August Kitzberg, A. H. Tammsaare,
Karl Ristikivi, and
Mart Kivastik.
Raine Loo would remain at the Vanemuine until her dismissal from the theatre in 2004, nearly forty years after she began her engagement.
Film and television
Loo made her film debut in the 1975
Virve Aruoja and
Jaan Tooming-directed drama
Värvilised unenäod for
Tallinnfilm.
This was followed by the role of Epp Loona in the 1981
Arvo Kruusement-directed film adaptation of the 1938
August Gailit novel
Karge meri, which chronicles the lives of seal hunters living on the coast of the
Baltic Sea.
Other prominent film roles include Proua Fisch in the 1989 Peeter Simm-directed drama Inimene, keda polnud; Kristiine in the 1990 Jaan Kolberg-directed drama See kadunud tee, starring Tarmo Koidla; Teresa in the Rainer Sarnet-directed science fiction film Kass kukub käppadele: Pauli laululaegas, starring Taavi Eelmaa; and as Mare Nurk/Vanaema in the 2005 Rainer Sarnet-directed thriller Libahundi needus, starring Katariina Unt.[ Eesti Filmi Andmebaas. Retrieved 17 December 2016.]
In 2007, she appeared as Lydia in the Peeter Simm-directed biographical film Georg, which chronicled the life of Estonian singer Georg Ots.[ KinoKultura Retrieved 17 December 2016.]
Loo has also appeared in a number of feature-length, made-for-television films, including the 1970 Virve Aruoja-directed historical drama Kolme katku vahel, which starred Georg Ots, Ants Eskola and Ants Lauter; she also appeared in the 1978 telefilm musical Imelugu, directed by Irene Lään.[ Eesti Filmi Andmebaas. Retrieved 17 December 2016.]
Personal life
Raine Loo was married to Estonian
botany and
ecology Hans Trass, who died in February 2017. The couple had a son, composer and organist
Toomas Trass.
[ Teater. Muusika. Kino / 08-09 / 2000 -Persona Grata Toomas Trass ... Retrieved 17 December 2016.] She died on 16 May 2020, aged 75, and was buried in
Raadi cemetery in Tartu.
Acknowledgements
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Meritorious Artist of the Estonian SSR (1976)
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Estonian Actors' Union honor (2004)
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