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Pääru Oja

Pääru Oja

Birthday: 1989-05-16 | Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]

Pääru Oja (born May 16, 1989) is an Estonian stage, film, voice, and television actor. Pääru Oja was born in Tallinn, the youngest of two sons. His father is actor Tõnu Oja and his older brother is Estonian Theatre Festival CEO and theatre manager Kaarel Oja, who is married to actress Ursula Ratasepp. His uncle is actor, director and theatre instructor Rein Oja. He attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn before being accepted to the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, where he graduated from in 2012 under course supervisor Elmo Nüganen. Oja's diploma roles included Father of Toulon in Peter Barnes' Red Noses (2010), Joseph Wykowski in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and Argante in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid (2011). Among his graduating classmates were: Henrik Kalmet, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Priit Pius, Märt Pius, Liis Lass, Piret Krumm, Maiken Schmidt, and Kaspar Velberg.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Sisu: Road to Revenge

as    Militsioner

2024
Sad Inheritance

as    Erik

2024
The Shadow

as    Juhan Liiv

2023
The Vacationers

as    Ivo

2023
Faulty Brides

as    Jaak

2022
Hit Big

as    Ninja

2020
Christmas in the Jungle

as    Andreas

2020
The Last Ones

as    Rupi

2020
Goodbye Soviet Union

as    Uncle Kolja

2018
Mihkel

as    Mihkel

2018
Between Covers

as    Ott

2018
The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

as    Tiidrik

2016
The Spy and The Poet

as    Siim

2015
1944

as    Medic Elmar Säinas

1
One-Dimensional Man

as    Bandit