Raine Loo

Raine Loo (28 March 1945 – 16 May 2020) was an Estonian stage, television and film actress.

Early life and education Raine Loo was born in the former Taevere Parish in Viljandi County, which is now part of Põhja-Sakala Parish. She attended No. 8 School in Tartu (now, the Tartu Forselius School), graduating in 1963. Afterward, she studied acting at the Vanemuine teaching studio, where she graduated in 1965. Notable performances at the Vanemuine have included roles in works by such varied international authors and playwrights as: Shakespeare, Chekhov, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, T. S. Eliot, Molière, Maxim Gorky, Ion Druță, Friedrich Schiller, Witold Gombrowicz and Arthur Miller, among others.

In 2007, she appeared as Lydia in the Peeter Simm-directed biographical film Georg, which chronicled the life of Estonian singer Georg Ots.

Loo has also appeared in a number of feature-length, made-for-television films, including the 1970 Virve Aruoja-directed historical drama Kolme katku vahel, which starred Georg Ots, Ants Eskola and Ants Lauter; she also appeared in the 1978 telefilm musical Imelugu, directed by Irene Lään. She died on 16 May 2020, aged 75, and was buried in Raadi cemetery in Tartu.

Acknowledgements Meritorious Artist of the Estonian SSR (1976) Estonian Actors' Union honor (2004)