Liina Tennosaar

Liina Tennosaar

Liina Tennosaar (born May 23, 1965) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress. Liina Tennosaar was born in Tallinn to Kalmer Tennosaar and Sirje Tennosaar (née Arbi). She has one full sibling and one half-sibling, from her father's second marriage. Her father was a popular Estonian journalist, singer and television personality who is possibly best recalled as "Uncle Kalmer" (Estonian: onu Kalmer), the host of the ETV children's television series Entel-Tentel. Her mother was a stage, film and television actress. She attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn, graduating in 1982, before studying acting at the Tallinn State Conservatory, Performing Arts Department (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), graduating in 1986. Liina Tennosaar made her television debut at age 22 as Mari in the Ago-Endrik Kerge directed 1983 Soviet-Estonian comedy television feature-length film Püha Susanna ehk meistrite kool. This was followed by the role of Aili Tõru in the 1986 Ago-Endrik Kerge directed television drama film Võtmeküsimus and the role of Mari in the 1987 Peeter Simm directed historical dramatic television film Tants aurukatla ümber, based on the novel of the same name by Estonian author Mats Traat. In 2004, she appeared in the feature-length television film Taksirengit, directed by Jussi Niilekselä and based on a play by Mihkel Ulman. From 1997 until 1999, she played the character of Tiiu on the popular, long-running ETV television drama Õnne 13. She has made appearances on such Estonian television series as Urpo & Turpo, Ohtlik lend, Ühikarotid, Kelgukoerad, Kättemaksukontor, Elu keset linna and Viimane võmm. In 2017, she appeared as Inga in the TV3 mystery-drama series Merivälja. Tennosaar made her feature film debut in 1990 in a starring role as Juuli in the Arvo Kruusement directed Sügis for Tallinnfilm. The film was based on the Oskar Luts novel of the same name and the final part of a trilogy of both the novels and films made based on them. This was followed by a small role in the 1993 Pekka Karjalainen directed comedy Hysteria; a joint Finnish-Estonian production. In 2007, she appeared in a small role in the Veiko Õunpuu directed drama Sügisball; adapted from author Mati Unt's 1979 novel of the same name. That same year she appeared as Viire in the Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk directed road movie comedy Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse; a film that portrays Estonian actor Jan Uuspõld as a down-on-his-luck caricature of himself trying to hitchhike from Tallinn to Tartu to perform in a role at the Vanemuine theatre. This was followed by a role in the 2008 Ain Mäeots directed drama Taarka, in which she plays the main character's mother. The film was based on the play of the same name by Võro poet and author Kauksi Ülle. Other notable roles in films include Toomas' mother in the Hannu Salonen directed drama-thriller Vasha in 2009; Riina, in the Ain Mäeots directed drama Deemonid in 2012, and in the Andrejs Ekis and Tanel Ingi directed 2020 comedy Asjad, millest me ei räägi. Tennosaar has also appeared in number of film shorts and student films.

  • Title: Liina Tennosaar
  • Popularity: 3.464
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1965-05-23
  • Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
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Liina Tennosaar Movies

  • 2022
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    Not Too Hard and Not in the Face

    Not Too Hard and Not in the Face

    1 2022 HD

    The 30-year-old protagonist Slava wakes up in a strange place with missing memories from last night. He’s taken to a hospital where Slava...

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  • 1990
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    Awakening

    Awakening

    4.5 1990 HD

    It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian...

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  • 1990
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    Autumn

    Autumn

    5.8 1990 HD

    The main character of the film is Paunvere tailor Jorh Adniel Kiir. Two young seamstresses, Juuli and Maali, arrive in Paunvere. At first, Kiir...

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  • 2008
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    Taarka

    Taarka

    5.7 2008 HD

    The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who...

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  • 2009
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    Vasha

    Vasha

    5.8 2009 HD

    Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur -...

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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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  • 2007
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    186 Kilometers

    186 Kilometers

    3.4 2007 HD

    The well-known but out-of-luck actor Jan Uuspõld sets out to hitchhike from Tallinn through Estonia to Tartu.

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  • 2008
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    The Wish Tree

    The Wish Tree

    7 2008 HD

    Hoping to find ways to start living independently, Liina travels from the country to her cousin Ave in the capital.

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  • 2003
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    The Beauty Queen of the Mountains

    The Beauty Queen of the Mountains

    1 2003 HD

    A story of two women, a mother and a daughter, whose life together is a constant battle. Even the simplest everyday activity can grow into a big...

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  • 2012
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    Demons

    Demons

    8 2012 HD

    When Joko, Ants and Reeda, all in their own good reasons, first enter a casino, they can't possibly be aware of the very existence of the demons...

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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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  • 2022
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    Tango of Mustamägi

    Tango of Mustamägi

    1 2022 HD

    It is the middle of the 1980s in Soviet Estonia and many people dream of a new apartment with all the comforts in the Mustamäe apartment...

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  • 2025
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    The Black Hole

    The Black Hole

    1 2025 HD

    As aliens descend to study humans, the people caught up in their investigations face turning points in their own lives. Two women take part-time jobs...

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  • 2019
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    Dora Who Came from Highway

    Dora Who Came from Highway

    1.5 2019 HD

    At the center of Estonia's first full-length horror film are the brothers Markus (Franz Malmsten) and Tom (Kristjan Kasearu), who find themselves in...

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  • 2004
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    Taksirengit

    Taksirengit

    1 2004 HD

    Finnish-Estonian short film.

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  • 1988
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    Dance Around the Steam Boiler

    Dance Around the Steam Boiler

    6 1988 HD

    The movie travels through the 20th century by monitoring a steam boiler. We see the history of Estonia through life, agricultural work and people at...

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  • 2020
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    Things, We Do Not Talk About

    Things, We Do Not Talk About

    7 2020 HD

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  • 2009
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    Revenge Office

    Revenge Office

    6 2009 HD

    A group of women create a organisation named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysterys for the police.

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  • 2022
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    Who Shot Otto Mueller?

    Who Shot Otto Mueller?

    1 2022 HD

    This focused family drama with a crime plot begins when Otto Müller, a 65-years-old business legend, is murdered in his own home.

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  • 2022
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    Naised Vormis

    Naised Vormis

    1 2022 HD

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  • 2021
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    Tuuli Roosma mees

    Tuuli Roosma mees

    1 2021 HD

    If you have the greatest wife on Earth and you are the lousiest man, who are you? The husband of Tuuli Roosma. One day Arbo is fed up with living in...

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  • 2010
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    ENSV

    ENSV

    1 2010 HD

    A comedy-series depicting an Estonian family in 1980s that consists of a rebel-minded grandpa, two siblings, a mother, who is a member of the Soviet...

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