25 Facts About Mart Sander

Mart Sander was born on 10 August 1967 and is an Estonian filmmaker, actor, author, musician, artist, and television host.

Mart Sander holds the Guinness World Record for Most Roles Played by a Single Actor in a Film.

Mart Sander started singing in the choir of the Estonian National Opera at the age of eighteen.

At the age of nineteen, Sander and swing orchestra Modern Fox won a talent competition in Moscow, the band toured both in Soviet Union and in Europe.

Mart Sander later returned to the Estonian National Opera as a stage director.

Mart Sander obtained his BA in musicology from the Tallinn University, his MA in film and TV directing at the BFM and in 2024, PhD in film at the BFM, where he is lecturing on cultural history and film music semiotics.

Mart Sander has studied screenwriting at the London Film Academy.

The notable roles for Mart Sander include: directing the operetta Silva at the Estonian National Opera in 2010.

At the opening night, as the leading singer suffered an injury on the stage, Mart Sander took over the part.

In 2014, his production of Ball im Savoy opened at the Estonian National Opera; Mart Sander directed, revised the text, made new orchestral arrangements and provided set and costume design, as well as created the role of Mustafa.

Mart Sander has written stage plays, where he often stars himself, such as Behind the Random Denominator, which was presented to the New York audience in 2015 and The Bughouse, which premiered in Washington, DC in 2018.

Mart Sander hosted from 1997 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2010, as well as the hit show Su nagu kolab tuttavalt.

In 2015, Mart Sander took his own one man horror drama Behind the Random Denominator to the solo theatre festival United Solo in New York, earning him the Best Sound Design award.

On 13 December 2019, his horror-fantasy anthology Eerie Fairy Tales, based on the short story collection of the same name by Mart Sander himself, opened nationwide in Estonia and in limited cinemas in the Baltic states and Finland, gathering positive reviews.

In 2020, Mart Sander wrote and directed a feature film titled The Kennedy Incident, based on his own novel.

Mart Sander is currently working on translating his best seller Ravengold to screen, as well as shooting a World War II epic drama Etude of Life.

In 2000, Mart Sander established, and began to conduct, the Tallinn-based Bel-Etage Concert Orchestra.

In 2005, Mart Sander established the Swing Swindlers dance orchestra; in 2005, the Swing Swindlers issued an album in the UK called Five-Fifteen: A Tribute to the BBC Dance Orchestra.

Mart Sander recalled that when he sent his recording of Leslie Stuart's Soldiers of the Queen to Her Majesty, he received a letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace.

Mart Sander has created, scripted and directed a historical drama series based on this trilogy.

Mart Sander has since announced plans to adapt the novel for the screen and has already presented a concept teaser, filmed on location in Italy.

Mart Sander became the member of the Estonian Writers' Association in 2022.

Mart Sander opened his own art gallery in 2007 in the center of Tallinn.

Mart Sander has had personal exhibitions in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Mart Sander's painting Urban Hunter made it to the finals of the 10th Annual ARC Salon, the largest and most prestigious competition in the western world for realist artists.