
Siina Üksküla
Acting
Biography
Siina Üksküla (until 1959 Zinaida Ignatenko; born June 16, 1938 in the village of Luiskovitsõ (Finnish: Luiskenitsa) in Jelizavetino village council, Krasnogvardeisk district, Leningrad region) is an Estonian actress. She studied at the Viljandi Pioneers House ballet circle, graduated from Viljandi High School for Young Workers in 1957, and from the first year of the Performing Arts Department of the Tallinn State Conservatory in 1961. She worked at the Rakvere Theater from 1961 to 1967 and at the Endla Theater from 1967 to 2000. Member of the Estonian Theater Association (1963) and honorary member of the Estonian Actors' Union.
Known For

Joonas and Tiidrik are two men from the island of Saaremaa who recklessly escape from the German prison during the First World War. Yet, there are no peaceful times in their home country neither.
Gladiator

There are three children growing at Tammaru farm - one boy, Margus; and two orphan girls, Mari and Tiina. Margus' parents want him to marry Mari instead of Tiina as she is more their kind. Hotblooded Tiina is completely different from them and her mother was once executed for being a witch. Thinking that Tiina has bewitched Margus, Mari starts to publicly accuse her stepsister of being a werewolf.
Werewolf

The story of a young art student who goes to the countryside for a summer internship in watercolor and rents a room in a house by the sea. Conversations with an old housekeeper and meetings with an initially somewhat fussy and naive girl draw one summer in the life of a young man. Whether it's a girl's going to university, meetings with people from a beach village, or an old woman's reminiscences of past times, something about these topics has an enlightening effect on the young man. At the end of summer, a young man's eye and weather view is brighter and wider. It is a lyrical and tender story of the beginning of young love and the life experience of a fading Estonian generation.