Viire Valdma (born 29 August 1960), is an Estonian stage, television
and film actress.Viire Valdma was born in the port town of Paldiski in
Harju County. She has two sisters and a half-sister from her mother's
second marriage after her parents divorced. The family was forced to
move when Paldiski became a heavily fortified closed city after a
Soviet Navy nuclear submarine training centre was constructed in
1962.Valdma is a 1982 graduate of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now,
the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, having studied
acting under instructor Aarne Üksküla. Among her graduating
classmates were Anu Lamp, Margus Oopkaup, Jaan Rekkor, Laine Mägi,
Sulev Teppart, and Andrus Vaarik.In 1982, shortly after graduation,
Viire Valdma began an engagement at the Vanalinnastuudio (Old Town
Studio theatre) in Tallinn. She would remain with at the
Vanalinnastuudio until 1996. She made her debut at the theatre in role
of Alvetina Ivanova in a production of the Semyon Zlotnikov play A Man
Came To A Woman in 1982. During her years at the Vanalinnastuudio she
would appear in roles in productions of works by such authors and
playwrights as: Shakespeare, Eduardo De Filippo, Oskar Luts, August
Strindberg, Joseph Kesselring, Jean Genet, Félicien Marceau, Achille
Campanile, Sławomir Mrożek, Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Willy
Russell, Neil Simon, George Gershwin, Ray Cooney, and Marc Camoletti,
among others.
and film actress.Viire Valdma was born in the port town of Paldiski in
Harju County. She has two sisters and a half-sister from her mother's
second marriage after her parents divorced. The family was forced to
move when Paldiski became a heavily fortified closed city after a
Soviet Navy nuclear submarine training centre was constructed in
1962.Valdma is a 1982 graduate of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now,
the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn, having studied
acting under instructor Aarne Üksküla. Among her graduating
classmates were Anu Lamp, Margus Oopkaup, Jaan Rekkor, Laine Mägi,
Sulev Teppart, and Andrus Vaarik.In 1982, shortly after graduation,
Viire Valdma began an engagement at the Vanalinnastuudio (Old Town
Studio theatre) in Tallinn. She would remain with at the
Vanalinnastuudio until 1996. She made her debut at the theatre in role
of Alvetina Ivanova in a production of the Semyon Zlotnikov play A Man
Came To A Woman in 1982. During her years at the Vanalinnastuudio she
would appear in roles in productions of works by such authors and
playwrights as: Shakespeare, Eduardo De Filippo, Oskar Luts, August
Strindberg, Joseph Kesselring, Jean Genet, Félicien Marceau, Achille
Campanile, Sławomir Mrożek, Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Willy
Russell, Neil Simon, George Gershwin, Ray Cooney, and Marc Camoletti,
among others.
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