Kirill Käro


Kirill Valeryevich Käro is an Estonian-Russian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer, as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us, and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake.
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Biography

Early years

Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union. His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher. His first cousin, once removed, is actor Volli Käro.
After graduating from secondary school at Lasnamäe in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004.

Career

Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in The Sniffer, for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor.
In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series Better than Us.
In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series To the Lake. The show was acquired by Netflix and broadcast in October 2020.

Selected filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009Help Gone Mad
2011Insignificant Details of a Random EpisodeShort
2011Boris GodunovDmitry Andreevich Kurbsky
2015The FencerAleksei
2022PlastZhenya
2022Who's There?Pyotr
2022Terrible DadNikita Osipov
2022Dalyokiye blizkiye
2022Pryamoy efirAlexandr

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007LiquidationSlava2 episodes
2013–17The SnifferThe Sniffer24 episodes
2015IzmenyKirill16 episodes
2017–19PsikhologiniMikhail Slutskiy22 episodes
2018–19Better than UsGeorgy Nikolaevich Safronov16 episodes
2019RasplataNikita Dolin8 episodes
2019To the LakeSergey8 episodes
2020–21PassengersAndrey8 episodes
2025KonstantinopolBorodaevsky9 episodes