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Katariina Unt
Acting

Katariina Unt
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1971-12-06,Tallinn, Harju District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]
Gender
Female
Biography
Katariina Unt (born Katariina Lauk; December 6, 1971) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actress. Katariina Unt was born in Tallinn. Her mother is interior decorator Malle Lauk and her father is artist Tõnu Lauk, who works mainly with metals. The youngest of four siblings, she grew up mostly in Pärnu. She graduated in 1990 from Pärnu Hansa Secondary School, then completed her studies in Tallinn at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Drama School in 1994 (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). Her graduating classmates included Mait Malmsten, Ain Mäeots, Liisa Aibel, Ago Anderson, Indrek Sammul, and Andres Puustusmaa. Between 1994 and 2001, she was engaged at the Tallinn City Theatre. Following her departure, she worked for a while as a freelance actor, performing at the Estonia Theatre, Endla Theatre and the Kuressaare Town Theatre, among others. In 2007, she joined the VAT Theatre in Tallinn, where she still currently performs. Among her more memorable roles in theater were in works by: William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Madis Kõiv, Molière, Tadeusz Różewicz, Luchino Visconti, Tom Stoppard, Andrus Kivirähk, August Kitzberg and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, among many others. Katariina Unt made her film debut as Mari in the 1994 Jaan Kolberg-directed film Jüri Rumm. This was followed by a recurring role on the popular ETV drama series Õnne 13. In 2013, she appeared in the Kanal 2 paranormal-thriller television series Süvahavva. Her first large film role was that of Eetla in the 2003 Sulev Keedus-directed war drama Somnambuul (English: Somnambulance). Other popular roles were in films such as Katrin Laur's Ruudi (2006), Veiko Õunpuu's Sügisball (Autumn Ball, 2007), Sulev Keedus' Kirjad Inglile (Letters to Angel, 2011) and Rainer Sarnet's Idioot (The Idiot, 2011), a starring role as Viivi in the 2016 Mart Kivastik directed romantic drama Õnn tuleb magades opposite actor Ivo Uukkivi and in Rainer Sarnet's November, 2017, based on the novel by Andrus Kivirähk. In many of her earlier film and television appearances, she is credited as Katariina Lauk (her birthname) and Katariina Lauk-Tamm (while married to Raivo E. Tamm). In 1993 she married actor Indrek Sammul, the couple divorced in 1995. In 1997, she wed actor Raivo E. Tamm, however, the two would divorce in 2003. Unt and Tamm have a daughter. In 2011, she remarried once again, taking her husband's surname Unt.

Filmography

Stairway to Heaven

6.3

Stairway to Heaven
2023-03-03

Rothschild's Violin

7

Rothschild's Violin
1996-12-18

0

Shift
2011-04-13

5.576

Deliver Us
2023-08-30

6

Jüri Rumm
1994-05-26

5.3

Somnambulance
2003-09-19

The Curse of the Werewolf

4

The Curse of the Werewolf
2005-01-01

6.3

Lost and Found
2005-02-10

6.1

Ruudi
2006-02-24

5.4

Autumn Ball
2007-09-13

The Temptation of St. Tony

6.9

The Temptation of St. Tony
2009-10-10

Letters to Angel

4.222

Letters to Angel
2011-01-27

5.1

The Idiot
2011-10-14

6.5

The Polar Boy
2016-05-10

When You Least Expect It

5

When You Least Expect It
2016-10-13

7.048

November
2017-02-03

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow

4.667

Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
2017-11-25

The Lion Blanket

0

The Lion Blanket
2020-10-16

Infinite Summer

6

Infinite Summer
2025-04-11

7

Free Money
2023-09-08

5.919

Azrael
2024-09-27

5.776

Undergods
2021-05-17

8

Lioness
2024-09-20

0

The Exalted
2024-11-15

The Unstruck Sound

0

The Unstruck Sound
2024-11-09

0

Generatio
2005-10-13

No Me Without You

0

No Me Without You

6.8

Quiet Life
2025-01-01

0

Serafima