Triin Tenso

Triin Tenso

History

Triin Tenso (born 1987) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress and filmmaker. Tenso began her career in the prominent role of Kerli in the 2007 Ilmar Raag-directed drama The Class, which focused on the sustained bullying of two boys at a secondary school that ultimately leads to a school shooting. The following year, Tenso joined the cast of the popular, long-running Eesti Televisioon (ETV) drama series Õnne 13 as the character Sonja and appeared in the role of Kelly in the René Vilbre directed drama Mina olin siin (I Was Here). In 2010, she reprised her role of Kerli for Klass: Elu pärast (The Class: Life After), a television miniseries that follows up on the aftermath of the school shooting in the film The Class. In addition to acting, Tenso has worked in a variety of positions on a number of films and television series, such as a focus puller, lighting technician, camera assistant, still photographer, first assistant director, assistant director, script supervisor and gaffer.

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Triin Tenso
Triin Tenso

Movies

Firebird
Assistant Camera
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
Sandra Gets a Job
Still Photographer
Doctor of Physics Sandra suddenly loses her job. Finding a new job seems easy at first glance, but it turns into various tragicomic challenges. Endless job interviews bring the former researcher together with all sorts of situations and new personalities.
Sandra Gets a Job
Script Supervisor
Doctor of Physics Sandra suddenly loses her job. Finding a new job seems easy at first glance, but it turns into various tragicomic challenges. Endless job interviews bring the former researcher together with all sorts of situations and new personalities.
Men
Assistant Camera
Three male friends decide to travel to Harakasa, a city far from Tallinn because Veikko needs to solve a problem there.
The Fencer
Continuity
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
I Was Here
Kelly
Seventeen-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the absence of a solid home life his family becomes a group of youngsters who are verging on being thieves. Drugs are an inseparable part of their lives, and when Rass agrees to distribute them, he gets tangled up in the narcotics trade. Small amounts suddenly become two-kilo packages that the mafia, to the misfortune of all involved, has not been paid for, and is ready to collect on by force…
Taarka
Electrician
The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who lived her whole life as an outcast in a small chimney-less hut; as an unmarried mother of children in poverty, begging her bread, doing odd jobs and singing. She always sang the truth, sometimes bitter, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel. She was feared, despised and coveted. Taarka sang throughout her remarkable life, throughout her fate, from a small Seto village to international fame. And she sang well. Really well. Taarka became the Mother of the Song, a legend. But as a woman, as a member of the community, the Seto people never really accepted her. Taarka - a despised woman and a worshiped singer.
Must Peeter
Electrician
Peter and his wife have dinner with friends in a restaurant. They have not quarreled for two weeks already. A new record could be in the making. But a trivial argument soon grows into a quarrel and the night brings weird games into their relationship.
The Class
Administration
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
The Class
Writers' Assistant
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
The Class
Kerli
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.