Kirill Käro
Acting • Born 1975-02-24
Biography
Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is an Estonian-Russian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake (2020). Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonia. His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher. His first cousin, once removed, is actor Volli Käro. After graduating from secondary school at Lasnamäe in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004. Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in The Sniffer, for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor. In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series Better than Us. In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series To the Lake. The show was acquired by Netflix and broadcast in October 2020.
Filmography
98 credits
Dad the Terrible
Movie • 2022
Nikita
Syndrome
Movie • 2023
Кирилл
Detector
Movie • 2023
Red Mercury
Movie • 2010
Sämm
Additional Lesson
Movie • 2022
Ilya Nesterov
Like Father, Like Son
Movie • 2022
le chauffeur routier
Neuro
Movie • 2022
Dove
Movie • 2009
Volodka Hippie
Побег из Москвабада
Movie • 2015
All That Jam
Movie • 2016
Fedka sosed
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
Movie • 2014
Waiter (segment The Constant)
Star
Movie • 2014
We Are from the Future 2
Movie • 2010
Layer
Movie • 2022
Truth
Movie • 2024
It Happens to People
Movie • 2023
Sunflower
Movie • 2021
Green Cats
Movie • 2017
Kirill
Who's There?
Movie • 2022
Both are Two
Movie • 2024
Nina
Movie • 2023
Boris
The Fencer
Movie • 2015
Aleksey
Man and Woman
Movie • 2025
Chelovek Niotkuda
Movie • 2010
Алексей
Motherland
Movie • 2015
Хофман
Scarecrow
Movie • 2025
Anya's father
Summer Will Come
Movie • 2025
Проездом
Movie
Girls
Movie • 2006
Антон
Frontier
Movie • 2018
врач Лаврусенко
Help Gone Mad
Movie • 2009
grandson
Vongozero: The Outbreak
Movie • 2019
Sergey
Rat Trap
Movie • 2011
Pjotr
Legs - Atavism
Movie • 2012
Norvegov
Rag Union
Movie • 2016
policeman
Insignificant Details of the Accidental Episode
Movie • 2011
He
The Voice of The Sea
Movie • 2018
Иван
Формат бабочки
Movie • 2019
The Afghan Caravan
Movie • 2011
Valery Kharlamov. Additional time
Movie • 2007
Boris Godunov
Movie • 2011
Kurbskiy
Love and Monsters
Movie • 2021
Ivan's Happiness
Movie • 2021
Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut
Movie • 2020
Call Me Blackbird
Movie • 2020
Live
Movie • 2023
Unreachable
Movie • 2021
V Centuria. Searching For a Charmed Treasure
Movie • 2010
Yan Vilis
The Idiot
Movie • 2005
Redemption
Movie • 2025
A Late Summer's Night
Movie • 2011
Tom
Distance
Movie • 2005
Him
Бесприданница
Movie • 2011
Maestro
Movie • 2025
Summer To Remember
Movie • 2024
Scientist
Zhurov
TV • 2009
Kostya
Литра 2.0
TV • 2020
«Lucky»
TV • 2021
Арье
Diagnosis is «Lucky»
TV • 2023
Антон
Insomnia
TV • 2021
Passengers
TV • 2020
The Sniffer
TV • 2013
детектив-консультант
Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov
TV • 2012
Ruytel
Cerberus
TV • 2023
Gloss
TV • 2023
отец Анны
Infidelities
TV • 2015
Кирилл
Живой
TV • 2018
Олег Сорокин (журналист)
Better Than Us
TV • 2018
Georgy Safronov
Расплата
TV • 2019
Ask Martha
TV • 2022
Hypnosis
TV • 2025
отец Григорий
Something Positive
TV • 2025
Pavel. The First and the Last
TV • 2025
Chelyuskin. First
TV • 2025
Отто Юльевич Шмидт
Право на свободу
TV • 2022
How to Tame a Fox
TV • 2025
8 Ways to Love
TV • 2021
Консультант
TV • 2017
Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук
Глухарь
TV • 2008
Gena Kruglov - narkoman
To the Lake
TV • 2019
Sergey
Научи меня жить
TV • 2016
Social Network
TV • 2023
The Black Countess
TV
God Complex
TV • 2023
Alexey
Gum
TV • 2024
Abnormal
TV • 2024
Passengers
TV • 2020
Andrey
Natali and Aleksandr
TV • 2025
Коршунов
MosGaz. Delo N11: Raffle
TV • 2025
Хасанов
The young and the strong will survive
TV • 2020
Tsiniki
TV • 2025
Глеб Терехов
Berlin Heat
TV • 2025
In Search of Andrei Rublev
TV • 2025
Andrei Rublev
Constantinople
TV • 2025
Бородаевский
Дорогой Вилли
TV • 2025
Вилли Брандт
Yug
TV • 2024
папа 5
Выхожу тебя искать
TV • 2010
Григорий Тришин
Casino
TV
Chebotin