Kirill Käro
Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is an Estonian-Russian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake (2020).
Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonia. 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.
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.
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Films (56)
Scarecrow
2026 · Anya's father
Жизнь после смерти
2026 · father
Redemption
2025
Maestro
2025
Summer Will Come
2025
Man and Woman
2025
Both are Two
2024
Truth
2024
Summer To Remember
2024 · Scientist
Nina
2023 · Boris
Syndrome
2023 · Кирилл
It Happens to People
2023
Live
2023
Detector
2023
Neuro
2022
Dad the Terrible
2022 · Nikita
Additional Lesson
2022 · Ilya Nesterov
Proches et éloignés
2022 · le chauffeur routier
Who's There?
2022
Layer
2022
Unreachable
2021
Sunflower
2021
Ivan's Happiness
2021
Love and Monsters
2021
Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut
2020
Call Me Blackbird
2020
Формат бабочки
2019
Vongozero: The Outbreak
2019 · Sergey
The Voice of The Sea
2018 · Иван
Frontier
2018 · Dr. Lavrusenko
Green Cats
2017 · Kirill
All That Jam
2016 · Fedka sosed
Passing Through
2016
Rag Union
2016 · policeman
Motherland
2015 · Хофман
Побег из Москвабада
2015
The Fencer
2015 · Aleksey
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
2014 · Waiter (segment The Constant)
Star
2014
Тайна Егора, или Необыкновенные приключения обыкновенным летом
2013 · Леонид, квартирант Алевтины Петровны, рыбак
Legs - Atavism
2012 · Norvegov
Boris Godunov
2011 · Kurbskiy
Бесприданница
2011
Insignificant Details of the Accidental Episode
2011 · He
A Late Summer's Night
2011 · Tom
The Afghan Caravan
2011
Rat Trap
2011 · Pjotr
The Man From the Nowhere
2010 · Алексей
Red Mercury
2010 · Sämm
V Centuria. Searching For a Charmed Treasure
2010 · Yan Vilis
We Are from the Future 2
2010
Dove
2009 · Volodka Hippie
Help Gone Mad
2009 · grandson
Valery Kharlamov. Additional time
2007
Distance
2005 · Him
The Idiot
2005
Séries (44)
Теория невероятностей
2026
The Black Countess
2026
Constantinople
2025 · Бородаевский
Dear Willie
2025 · Вилли Брандт
How to Tame a Fox
2025
Berlin Heat
2025
In Search of Andrei Rublev
2025 · Andrei Rublev
Cynics
2025 · Глеб Терехов
Something Positive
2025
MosGaz. Delo N11: Raffle
2025 · Хасанов
Hypnosis
2025 · отец Григорий
Pavel. The First and the Last
2025
Chelyuskin. First
2025 · Отто Юльевич Шмидт
Natali and Aleksandr
2025 · Коршунов
Gum
2024
Yug
2024 · папа 5
Abnormal
2024
Gloss
2023 · отец Анны
Cerberus
2023
Diagnosis is «Lucky»
2023 · Антон
God Complex
2023 · Alexey
Social Network
2023
Right to Freedom
2022
Ask Martha
2022
«Lucky»
2021 · Арье
Insomnia
2021
8 Ways to Love
2021
Passengers
2020 · Andrey
Young and the Strong Will Survive
2020
Liters 2.0
2020
Расплата
2019
To the Lake
2019 · Sergey
Better Than Us
2018 · Georgy Safronov
Живой
2018 · Олег Сорокин (журналист)
Консультант
2017 · Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук
Научи меня жить
2016
Infidelities
2015 · Кирилл
Silver Spoon
2014 · Берт
The Sniffer
2013 · детектив-консультант
Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov
2012 · Ruytel
Выхожу тебя искать
2010 · Григорий Тришин
Zhurov
2009 · Kostya
Глухарь
2008 · Gena Kruglov - narkoman
Casino
· Chebotin