
Marko Matvere
Biography
Marko Matvere (born February 4, 1968 in PĂ€rnu) is an Estonian actor, singer and director. He graduated from PĂ€rnu 1st Secondary School in 1986. After graduating from the XIV flight of the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn Conservatory in 1990, he started working as an actor at the Tallinn City Theatre, where he worked until 2004. Since then he has been working as a freelancer. He is married to Tiina Matvere and they have a daughter, Matilde, and a son, Oskar. Matvere has performed in many musicals, including Les MisĂ©rables, Tanz der Vampire, The Sound of Music, and Miss Saigon. He has performed the main role in several films ("Georg) and television series. He hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with Annely Peebo. He has also hosted the TV show Songs with Stars with Karin Rask. He has been a member of the music group "VĂ€ikeste lÔÔtspillide ĂŒhing" ("Association of Little Accordions") since 1989 and released two albums with Jaan TĂ€tte. He made his first movie appearance in Suflöör (1993). So far, Matvere has played or voiced in seven films and television series including foreign TV- series.
Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes âą as Self - Presenter
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes âą as Raivo
When Johan Falk was 19 years old he lost his girlfriend Maria and their unborn child when Maria got hit by a car. Falk takes the accident very hard and do not even go to the funeral. He decides that crime must be fought and applies immediately to the Police Academy. The movies are, however, only about Falk as an police officer with many years of experience from the National Task Force. He often goes his own way and does not shy away from using controversial methods. This leads to that the colleagues often experience difficulties in cooperating with him and managers are forced to turn a blind eye to what he's doing.

Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes âą as Artur Kallaste
Tuulepealne maa is a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series about the pre-World War II history of Estonia, its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes âą as Penno
The boys of Wikman is a 1994-year drama serial about the Wikman Private Gymnasium students from 1937 till their mobilization in 1944. The series is based on a 1988 novel Wikmani poisid by Jaan Kross.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m âą as Robert
JĂŒri Rumm is a hot-tempered young peasant who is not afraid of either German barons or the Russian czar, barfights or disobedience to his master's orders. Mari, a gentle peasant girl, loves JĂŒri despite the fact that he is very popular among young women. Evelin is a quick-tempered baron's daughter who is used to get everything she wants, including a peasant boyfriend who considers himself a free man. Yet, the free man becomes an outlaw. Where will the runaway's love lead him?

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m âą as Ranger
Two talented radio actors from Estonia have their lives turned upside down by the arrival of Gerli.

Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes âą as Kuldar
A great and unprecedented domestic love story, where in addition to romantic moments of love, there are also many adventures and surprising turns! The main parts of the wonderful series are Marko Matvere and the rising stars Desiree Mumm, Liset Loigu and Oskar Seeman.

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m âą as (voice)
In a world within the Earth, Antipolis inhabitants unaware of their globe existence face a shocking revelation when they discover the truth.

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m âą as Karl
The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre. You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies and jesters - and don't expect to hear a symphony but a single delicate sound of a flute.

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m âą Main Cast Role
Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m âą as Self (archive footage)
One of the traditions peculiar to Europe is the annual Eurovision Song Contest, in which hopeful singers from across the continent - from Slovenia to Sweden and Cyprus to Croatia - attempt to prove their nation's dominance in the field of pop music. Filmmaker Marina Zenovich took her cameras to host country Estonia - the winner in 2001 - to document preparations for the 2002 contest, and found a hotbed of jealous rivalries, national outrage and soap-opera-style scandals. Why did winning duo Tanel and Dave break up just weeks after their win? Why is handsome actor Mart Sander passed over for the presenter job? How does Tanel's sister react when she fails to make the cut for the 2002 contest? Through interviews and observation, Zenovich creates what the London Guardian described as "A Star is Born with extra snow."

Drama Series - 2023, 16 episodes âą as Spanheim
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m âą as Spanheim
In medieval Tallinn, a famous knight who is freed from the pirates of the Baltic Sea is murdered. The hero's head is cut off and his mouth is stuffed with coins. The gold chain he bought the same day is missing. The bailiff orders Melchior, an apothecary, to investigate the crime. The clever young man discovers that the slain was looking for a mysterious "Tallinn prisoner" and the traces lead to the Dominican monastery. A fabulous sequence of bloodwork is unleashed - anyone who comes into contact with this secret is in danger of dying.

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m âą as Mati (voice)
Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, Lotte's father. His primary rival is Adalbert, whose wife also partakes in the competition. On the eve of the next competition, Lotte and her friend Bruno find a book soaked in the sea, from which Susumu, a gardener from distant Japan, climbs out. Susumu teaches the villagers some judo throws before a big judo competition, which the latter will eagerly use to facilitate their daily lives.

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m âą as Spanheim
In the middle of the night, a drunk town guard happens to meet the daughter of a rich merchant⊠who drowned herself into a well 10 years ago. Soon after the town guard falls dead from the tower. This is followed by two other suspicious deaths. Doubting the existence of the ghost, Melchior has a hunch that these âaccidentsâ are part of a heinous crime. Tracking down the killer, his path will cross with heretics, old feuds and dark family secrets.

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes âą as Jakob Sommer
The "Line of Fire" has an excitement and a family drama in which sharp contemporary themes and novel characters unfold. At the center of the series is 57-year-old Jakob Sommer, embodied by Marko Matvere, whose work and private life have run aground. Grandfather, who seems friendly and calm to bystanders, feels for a moment that the world around him has remained a stranger and decides to "fix" it with an explosive mission. A bomb guard holding the capital under his fear government is being chased by a young top security police investigator, played by Kaspar Velberg. In addition, Sten Karpov, Liis Lass, Saara Pius, Karin Tammaru and others are participating in the series. Top Estonian actors.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m âą as Self
The preparations for the 2002 Eurovision in Estonia and behind the scenes for the contest.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m âą Main Cast Role
A former goldminer who has run afoul of the law is made an unusual offer by the mafia. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him step down from the rollercoaster in order to make the right decisions.

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m âą as Mart
Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family back home becomes too big and he decides to get back to Sweden. Now a tough struggle begins to get himself home to the family, a family that has moved on with their lives and also thinks that he's dead. A past as a bank robber and a fugitive is not making the journey easier. Along the way back to Sweden more problems arise that makes it even harder for him to meet his family again. Meantime back in Sweden his family is struggling with difficulties which they don't know how to solve. The time is running out and things don't look good at all.

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m âą as Mihkel's Father
Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancĂ©e, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an âšEstonian priest, who is a business partner of Igorâs in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into swallowing seventy drug capsules to take on to Iceland. He arrives in Iceland and is picked up by Igor and his two Icelandic accomplices, JĂłhann and BĂłbĂł. However, in the next two days it becomes clear that something is wrong and Mihkel cannot pass the drugs. The Icelandic criminals become very nervous, and more and more frantic activity ensues as the situation becomes more serious.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m âą as Georg
Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and authority for men, his talent was revered by the highest ranks of the Soviet Union and millions of ordinary people. Georg Ots took the stage when a huge country was recovering from the horrors of war, and his voice returned them faith in a bright future. Few people know what his life was really like.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m âą as Poetry Reader
Poetic, experimental animated short directed by one of the greatest Estonian cartoonists Priit PĂ€rn.

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m âą as Bodyguard Roby
As a young woman, Claire left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly bankrupt and in urgent need of money. Everybody hopes Clara will come to the rescue. And she will. However, there is a condition: somebody must kill the man who was her lover all those years ago.

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m âą as Pilli-Villu
At the end of the 1920-s the Finnish government proclaimed dry law which lasted 12 years. Estonian bootleggers living on the neighboring coast of the Gulf of Finland profited from prohibition......

Movie - 2022, 2h 15m âą as Sir Juhan Denholm
Kiik, a young car mechanic stuck between the gears of life, finds out that his girlfriend's heart has been won over by a new handsome man. To get rid of the pain in his soul, Kiik asks his filmmaker best friend to join the adventure, with the destination to cut down the tree of eternal love. The journey to the mystical tree becomes thorny, intriguing and criminal.

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m âą as Pedro (voice)
Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human familyâs house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest.

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m âą as (voice)
Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute cartoon. Leading actors of the Estonian theater and cinema, as well as the authors of the poems themselves, took part in the dubbing.
