Kirill Käro
Born
February 24, 1975 (50 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is a Russian actor of Estonian descent. 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.
Summer Will Come
2025
Man and Woman
2025
Both are Two
2024
Truth
2024
Nina
Boris
2023
Syndrome
Кирилл
2023
It Happens to People
2023
Detector
2023
Neuro
2022
Dad the Terrible
Nikita
2022
Additional Lesson
2022
Like Father, Like Son
le chauffeur routier
2022
Who's There?
2022
Layer
2022
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
Sergey
2019
The Voice of The Sea
Иван
2018
Frontier
врач Лаврусенко
2018
Green Cats
Kirill
2017
All That Jam
Fedka sosed
2016
Rag Union
policeman
2016
Motherland
Хофман
2015
Побег из Москвабада
2015
The Fencer
Aleksey
2015
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
Waiter (segment The Constant)
2014
Star
2014
Legs - Atavism
Norvegov
2012
Boris Godunov
Kurbskiy
2011
Insignificant Details of the Accidental Episode
He
2011
The Afghan Caravan
2011
Rat Trap
Pjotr
2011
Chelovek Niotkuda
Алексей
2010
Red Mercury
Sämm
2010
We Are from the Future 2
2010
Dove
Volodka Hippie
2009
Чучело
Anya's father
Проездом
Маэстро
2025
МосГаз. Дело № 11: Розыгрыш
Хасанов · (8 episodes)
2025
Redemption
2025
Hypnosis
(8 episodes)
2025
Pavel. The First and the Last
(12 episodes)
2025
Chelyuskin. First
Отто Юльевич Шмидт · (6 episodes)
2025
Натали и Александр
Коршунов · (12 episodes)
2025
Gum
(8 episodes)
2024
Yug
(8 episodes)
2024
Abnormal
(8 episodes)
2024
Gloss
отец Анны · (8 episodes)
2023
Cerberus
(4 episodes)
2023
Diagnosis is «Lucky»
Антон · (8 episodes)
2023
Live
2023
God Complex
Alexey · (5 episodes)
2023
Social Network
(6 episodes)
2023
Право на свободу
(8 episodes)
2022
Ask Martha
(8 episodes)
2022
«Lucky»
Арье · (8 episodes)
2021
Insomnia
(8 episodes)
2021
Unreachable
2021
8 Ways to Love
(8 episodes)
2021
Passengers
(8 episodes)
2020
Passengers
Andrey · (8 episodes)
2020
The young and the strong will survive
(8 episodes)
2020
Литра 2.0
(12 episodes)
2020
Расплата
(8 episodes)
2019
To the Lake
Sergey · (16 episodes)
2019
Better Than Us
Georgy Safronov · (16 episodes)
2018
Живой
Олег Сорокин (журналист) · (16 episodes)
2018
Консультант
Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук · (20 episodes)
2017
Научи меня жить
(12 episodes)
2016
Infidelities
Кирилл · (16 episodes)
2015
The Sniffer
детектив-консультант · (32 episodes)
2013
Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov
Ruytel · (4 episodes)
2012
Бесприданница
2011
A Late Summer's Night
Tom
2011
V Centuria. Searching For a Charmed Treasure
Yan Vilis
2010
Zhurov
Kostya · (2 episodes)
2009
Help Gone Mad
grandson
2009
Глухарь
Gena Kruglov - narkoman · (1 episode)
2008
Valery Kharlamov. Additional time
2007
Girls
Антон
2006
Distance
Him
2005
The Idiot
2005
Something Positive
(1 episode)
How to Tame a Fox
(1 episode)
The Black Countess
(1 episode)