Pääru Oja

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1989-05-16 (35 years old)

Place of Birth Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Pääru Oja

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
2024
The Shadow

as Juhan Liiv

2024
The Agency

as Man in Tracksuit / Special Op

2023
2023
2022
Hit Big

as Ninja

2022
Vikings: Valhalla

as Arne Gormsson

2021
Shadow and Bone

as Mogens

2020
2020
Dawn of War

as Peeter Parik

2020
Goodbye Soviet Union

as Uncle Kolja

2020
Helene

as Priest

2020
Cold Courage

as David Vervloet

2019
EnsV

as Velts

2018
2018
Mihkel

as Mihkel

2018
Lõks

as Alex

2015
1944

as Medic Elmar Säinas

Sound

2024
Azrael

as ADR & Dubbing