Lii Tedre

Lii Tedre (born Lii Mander; 10 October 1944) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actress. Tedre began her career with an engagement at the Endla Theatre in 1968, before leaving in 2010 to become a freelance actress.

Early life and education Lii Tedre was born Tallinn during World War II, shortly after the Soviet reoccupation of Estonia. Her father was a driver and her mother was a manual labourer. She attended schools in Tallinn, graduating from Tallinn 8th Secondary School in 1964. Afterward, she enrolled at the ESSR Theatre Association Performing Arts Studio in Tartu, graduating in 1969. Her diploma production roles include Vera in Maxim Gorky's The Last Ones and Murike in Egon Rannet's Kriminal Tango and Very Decent People.

Additionally, Tedre performed in variety theatre at the Hermes restaurant in Pärnu between 1972 and 1984 and the Varius Theatre in Tallinn. In 1991, she appeared as the character Eeva Almar in the Ingo Normet-directed television film Otto Almari nägemus, based on the 1907 story Uurimisel, by A. H. Tammsaare.

Since the 2000s. Tedre has made a number of appearances as a guest actress on several Estonian television series, most notably: the long-running Eesti Televisioon (ETV) drama series Õnne 13 in 2001, the ETV crime series Ohtlik lend in 2006, the Kanal 2 crimes eries Siberi võmm in 2017, the TV3 crime series Lõks in 2018, and between 2015 and 2018, several roles on the TV3 comedy-crime series Kättemaksukontor.

Tedre's first major role in a motion picture was that of Mother in the 1992 Mati Põldre-directed historical drama Need vanad armastuskirjad, which chronicles the life of Estonian musician and composer Raimond Valgre. In 2012, she appeared as the mother of actress Evelin Võigemast's character in the Ain Mäeots-directed drama Deemonid.

Acknowledgements Tedre has won an Estonian Theatre Association award on five occasions and has been chosen as the audience favorite of Endla Theatre several times during her career with the theatre. In August 2019, Minister of Culture Tõnis Lukas presented Tedre with a letter of thanks and a gift of €1,000 in appreciation of Tedre's contribution to national culture.