Leida Rammo (18 April 1924 â€" 23 July 2020) was an Estonian stage,
radio, television, and film actress and theatre director whose career
spanned over seven decades.Leida Rammo was the eldest of two children
born in Tallinn to Magnus Siigur and Alide Marie Johanna Rammo. Her
younger sister was children's author and dramaturge Helju Rammo
(1926â€"1998). Her maternal grandmother was an Estonian Swede and her
first cousin was poet Adolf Rammo.Rammo's mother supported the family
as a flower seller and raised the children alone. Her parents were not
married and she and her sister took their mother's maiden name.
Although her father lived in Tallinn, Rammo had little interaction
with him whilst growing up. Since early childhood, she was interested
in theatre and had aspired to become an actress. She attended primary
and secondary schools in Tallinn, graduating from Tallinn IV Gymnasium
in 1942 while Estonia was under German occupation during World War
II.Shortly after graduating from secondary school, Rammo left Estonia
to work as an au pair and domestic servant for a Spanish-born woman
and her German husband in Aussig, in the German-annexed Sudetenland.
As the war dragged on, Rammo, along with the family, moved to Vienna,
where she also studied drama until the continuation of the war forced
her abandon her studies. While in Austria, she lived through the
Allied air raids and the Vienna Offensive.
radio, television, and film actress and theatre director whose career
spanned over seven decades.Leida Rammo was the eldest of two children
born in Tallinn to Magnus Siigur and Alide Marie Johanna Rammo. Her
younger sister was children's author and dramaturge Helju Rammo
(1926â€"1998). Her maternal grandmother was an Estonian Swede and her
first cousin was poet Adolf Rammo.Rammo's mother supported the family
as a flower seller and raised the children alone. Her parents were not
married and she and her sister took their mother's maiden name.
Although her father lived in Tallinn, Rammo had little interaction
with him whilst growing up. Since early childhood, she was interested
in theatre and had aspired to become an actress. She attended primary
and secondary schools in Tallinn, graduating from Tallinn IV Gymnasium
in 1942 while Estonia was under German occupation during World War
II.Shortly after graduating from secondary school, Rammo left Estonia
to work as an au pair and domestic servant for a Spanish-born woman
and her German husband in Aussig, in the German-annexed Sudetenland.
As the war dragged on, Rammo, along with the family, moved to Vienna,
where she also studied drama until the continuation of the war forced
her abandon her studies. While in Austria, she lived through the
Allied air raids and the Vienna Offensive.
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