Maarja Jakobson

Maarja Jakobson

Maarja Jakobson (born December 8, 1977) is an Estonian television, stage and film actress whose career began in the late 1990s. Maarja Jakobson was born in Tartu in 1977. She is distantly related to 19th-century writer and politician Carl Robert Jakobson, who played a pivotal role in the Estonian national awakening. She graduated from the 15th Secondary School of Tartu (now, the Tartu Descartes Lyceum) in 1995 and enrolled at the University of Tartu to study German for a year before enrolling in the performing arts department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn in 1996 to study acting under the direction of theatre pedagogue and stage director Ingo Normet, graduating in 2000. Among her graduating classmates were actors Kersti Heinloo, Margus Prangel, Eva Püssa, Katrin Pärn, Tambet Tuisk, Piret Simson and directors Urmas Lennuk, Tiit Ojasoo and Vahur Keller. In 2002, she graduated cum laude from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with a master's degree in theatre and drama. She had spent the previous year studying at the Berlin University of the Arts collecting her master's thesis material. In 1998, while still a student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Jakobson was cast in the role of Jane Peterson on the long-running Eesti Televisioon (ETV) television drama series Õnne 13; a role Jakobson has, to date, been performing on the series for over twenty years. In 1999, she made her feature film debut in a small role in the sci-fi adventure Kass kukub käppadele for Exitfilm. In 2001, Jakobson began an engagement as a stage actress at the Endla Theatre in Pärnu before leaving in 2004 to become a freelance actress. As a freelance actress, she has appeared on the stages of the Vanemuine, the Von Krahl Theatre, the Rakvere Theatre, the Tartu New Theatre and the Kuressaare City Theatre. After appearing in several film shorts, Jakobson received her first starring role in a feature-length film as Alice in the 2005 Peeter Urbla directed Exitfilm comedy-drama Stiilipidu opposite Anne Reemann and Evelin Võigemast. The same year, she appeared as Stella in the Peeter Simm directed comedy-drama Kõrini! In 2006, she appeared as Maarja in the comedy-drama Tabamata ime, based on the 1912 play of the same name by author Eduard Vilde and later the same year played the role of Helina in the Veiko Õunpuu directed drama Tühirand, based on the story of the same name penned by Mati Unt. The following year she appeared as Laura, a single mother in the Veiko Õunpuu directed drama Sügisball for which she won the Best Actress award at the 11th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on 9 December 2007. On 11 February 2006, she was among ten European actors selected from twenty-one candidates, each representing their country, to be presented with the European Shooting Stars Award by the European Film Promotion (EFP). The event took place during the 56th Berlin International Film Festival.

  • Title: Maarja Jakobson
  • Popularity: 0.886
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1977-12-08
  • Place of Birth: Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
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Maarja Jakobson Movies

  • 2018
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    Three August Days

    Three August Days

    1 2018 HD

    In the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and a Russian boy reach across cultural lines to unite...

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  • 2011
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    A Friend of Mine

    A Friend of Mine

    5.2 2011 HD

    Mati, a 70-year-old bibliophile, cannot cope with his wife's death. As loneliness and indifference overrun his thoughts, he contemplates suicide...

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  • 2012
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    Rat King

    Rat King

    5.5 2012 HD

    18 year old Juri is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and pushes his girlfriend to the brink...

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  • 2019
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    Class Reunion 3: Godfathers

    Class Reunion 3: Godfathers

    4.6 2019 HD

    The final film in the trilogy takes us on another wild ridewhich will stop at nothing and will leave no time to feel shame. The three best friends...

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  • 2007
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    Autumn Ball

    Autumn Ball

    5.569 2007 HD

    Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of...

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  • 2006
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    Empty

    Empty

    5.5 2006 HD

    A young intellectual, Mati, engineers himself into a situation where he has to spend a weekend with his wife Helina and her lover Eduard. The trio...

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  • 2005
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    Shop of Dreams

    Shop of Dreams

    5.4 2005 HD

    Three friends return from a vacation and discover that the TV studio they work for has gone bankrupt - so they decide to start their own costume...

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  • 2018
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    The Little Comrade

    The Little Comrade

    6.9 2018 HD

    In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good...

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  • 2023
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    The Vacationers

    The Vacationers

    5.7 2023 HD

    Fisherman Ärni has decided to take vacationers for midsummer due to the poor catch of fish. The plan is not bad, but extremely troublesome...

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  • 2010
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    Sky Song

    Sky Song

    5.5 2010 HD

    A postman endeavors to fly to the moon in one breath so he can deliver a package.

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  • 2018
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    Mihkel

    Mihkel

    5.8 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    Uncaught Miracle

    Uncaught Miracle

    1 2006 HD

    The 6 short films of "Tabamata ime" are based on Edward Vilde's play of the same name first published in 1912. Vilde's play is about a young piano...

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  • 1999
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    Happy Landing

    Happy Landing

    1 1999 HD

    Three film segments.

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  • 2024
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    8 Views of Lake Biwa

    8 Views of Lake Biwa

    6 2024 HD

    On the shimmering shores of Europe’s otherworldly edge, two teenage girls, Hanake and her best friend are discussing their first love interest...

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  • 2014
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    Cherry Tobacco

    Cherry Tobacco

    6.1 2014 HD

    An exploration of the growing friendship between small-town girl Laura, who is persuaded onto a hiking trip by her friend Merit, and Joosep, a...

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  • 2005
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    Fed Up!

    Fed Up!

    1 2005 HD

    Kaminsky is a long-distance driver disappointed both in life and other people. His last duty as a drives takes him to Estonia where he decides to...

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  • 2013
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    Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady

    Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady

    4 2013 HD

    In a quiet resort town Haapsalu four kids are spending their summer holidays together. Suddenly they are dragged into events that started in the 15th...

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  • 2016
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    Class Reunion

    Class Reunion

    6 2016 HD

    Three middle aged men are going to their high school reunion after 25 years and the troubles that come with it.

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  • 2018
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    Class Reunion 2: A Wedding and a Funeral

    Class Reunion 2: A Wedding and a Funeral

    3.8 2018 HD

    Class Reunion 2: A Wedding and a Funeral sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart, Andres and Toomas. This time they are planning a...

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  • 2024
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    Infinite Summer

    Infinite Summer

    1 2024 HD

    On a summer break, Mia and her friends try a meditation app that’s somehow related to the operating system of the Tallinn Zoo, changing the...

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