Ivo Eensalu

Biography

Ivo Eensalu (born April 3, 1949) is an Estonian actor and theatre director. Eensalu's career began in the early 1970s, and has appeared as an actor on stage, film and in television. He became widely known after appearing on the Eesti Televisioon children's educational television series Mõmmi ja aabits. From 1995 until 2001, he was the director of the Estonian Drama Theatre. Ivo Eensalu was born in Märjamaa in 1949. His father was a carpenter. He graduated from Järvakandi Secondary School in 1967 and enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) the following year, studying drama with instructor Voldemar Panso, and graduating in 1972. His diploma production role was that of Eero in Aleksis Kivi's The Seven Brothers, directed by Panso and performed at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. Among his graduating classmates were actors Helgi Annast, Vello Janson, Rein Kotkas, Kersti Kreismann, Siim Rulli, Tõnis Rätsep, Tõnu Saar, Jaak Tamleht, Martin Veinmann, and Juhan Viiding. Eensalu made his feature film screen debut in the role of Vikerkaar in the 1974 Virve Aruoja and Jaan Tooming directed drama Värv…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Lamb in the Down Right Corner (1992) — Father of Five Daughters
2. Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter (1983) — Gendarme #3
3. Colourful Dreams (1975) — Rainbow (uncredited)
4. Tear of the Prince of Darkness (1993) — Hotels Doorkeeper
5. Prompter (1993) — Ivo
6. Doubles (1983) — Mechanic
7. Jüri Rumm (1994) — Prison Guard in Siberia
8. In the Time of the Law of the Wolf (1986)
9. Legends of Tallinn (1995) — Mayor (voice)
10. When the Robbers Came to the Town of Cardamom (1980) — Baker
11. Karlsson-on-the-Roof (1988) — Firefighter
12. Indrek (1976) — Sikk
13. Veini süü (1986)

Directed

1. Judo Boys (1987) — Director