Ellen Liiger, was an Estonian stage, television, radio and film actress and theatre teacher.
12 Facts About Ellen Liiger
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Ellen Liiger was born in Tallinn to parents Jaan Liiger and Mari Liiger in 1918.
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Ellen Liiger was the youngest of three siblings; her brother Eduard was born in 1907 and her sister Hilda-Alice was born in 1910.
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Ellen Liiger had one half-sibling, Arnold Liiger, born in 1902, from her father's first marriage to Reet Liiger.
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In 1924, at age six, Ellen Liiger began appearing onstage in small roles for children at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn.
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Ellen Liiger's stage debut was a small role in a 1924 production of Polish dramatist Tadeusz Rittner's 1916 play Wolves at Night.
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Ellen Liiger would remain an actress at the theatre until leaving in 1960 for an engagement at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu, which lasted until 1966.
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Ellen Liiger performed as a radio and television actress; although, not as prolific in these mediums as her stage career.
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Ellen Liiger made her film debut in a small, uncredited role in the 1951 Herbert Rappaport directed Valgus Koordis for Lenfilm.
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Ellen Liiger was married to actor Ilmar Tammur, who died in 1989.
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The couple had a daughter, Mare Ellen Liiger, who became a medical doctor.
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Ellen Liiger died in Tallinn in 1987 at age 69 of gastric cancer.