Rea Lest

Rea Lest

Рождение : 1990-05-14,

История

Rea Lest-Liik (born May 14, 1990) is an Estonian stage and film actress who came to prominence in the 2010s following leading roles in several Estonian films, such as Mother, Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow and November. She has won several awards for stage and film roles. Rea Lest was born and raised in Tallinn. She is a 2009 graduate of the Jakob Westholm Gymnasium secondary school. In 2010, she enrolled at the University of Tartu to study art therapy, but left shortly after to enroll in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's drama department to study acting under instructor Tiit Ojasoo. In 2012, she won the Voldemar Panso Young Actor Award while studying at academy. She graduated from the academy in 2014. Among her graduating classmates were actors Jaanika Arum, Helena Pruuli, Reimo Sagor, Simeoni Sundja, Kärt Tammjärv, and future husband Jörgen Liik. In 2014, shortly after graduating from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Lest began an engagement at the Theatre NO99; a non-profit foundation repertory theatre in Tallinn. Lest left the theatre in 2018, prior to its closing in 2019. Lest made her film debut in the 2014 student film comedy short Lõputu suvi (English: Endless Summer), directed by Jaan Penjam, and was Penjam's master's thesis production for the Film Department of the Baltic Film and Media School. In 2016, she was cast in her first feature-length film as the character Riin in the Kadri Kõusaar directed darkly comic crime mystery Ema (English: Mother). The film was selected as Estonia's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category at the 2017 89th Academy Awards. In 2016, was cast in the lead role of Liina in the 2017 Rainer Sarnet directed gothic fantasy thriller November, based on Andrus Kivirähk's 2000 novel Rehepapp ehk November. The film received positive reviews and was selected as the Estonian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It made its North American premiere in the International Narrative Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. The film is also notable for being Estonian veteran actor Arvo Kukumägi's last film role before his death in May 2017. The same year, Lest appeared as the lead in the Sulev Keedus directed drama Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari (English: The Man Slayer/The Virgin/The Shadow). Lest portrayed three different protagonists in three historical triptychs of women in Estonia struggling to decide their own destiny. In 2019, she appeared in a leading role opposite former Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre classmate Reimo Sagor in the Martti Helde directed psychological thriller Skandinaavia vaikus (English: Scandinavian Silence). The film won both the critics and the audience award at the 2019 Riga Film Festival.

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Фильмы

Dark Paradise
Karmen
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Клон
Emergency Room Receptionist
В мире будущего люди вынуждены отстаивать свое право на существование в публичных смертельных поединках со своими клонами. Когда специалисты ставят Саре тяжелый диагноз, она приобретает собственного двойника, чтобы он заботился о близких. Но когда девушка выздоравливает и решает деактивировать клона, она сталкивается с новым суровым законом. Саре придётся сойтись со своим двойником в смертельной битве. Ей нужно совершить невозможное, чтобы победить совершенное оружие для манипуляций и убийства — идеальную версию себя.
Скандинавская тишина
Jenna
Заключенный, отбывший наказание за убийство своих родителей, впервые за долгие годы встречается со своей сестрой. Вместе они отправляются в безмолвную поездку, которая раскрывает причины трагедии давних лет.
FRESH BLOOD: Own and Stranger
Grete (segment "True")
Six fresh short films on the topic "Own and Stranger" from even more fresh Estonian directors.
True
Grete
In True, five strangers meet in a doctor’s office. In a changing world, even an innocent joke is enough to trigger an avalanche.
Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
Maara / Elina / Luna Lee
The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? The film is led by the singularity of the leading character - Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress.
Ноябрь
Liina
Действие происходит в языческом эстонском селе, где водятся оборотни, ведьмы и появились странные существа. Молоденькая крестьянская девушка Лийна безнадёжно влюблена в сельского парня Ханса. Ему же нравится прекрасная барышня из поместья.
Мама
Riin
Эльза заботится о своем взрослом сыне, впавшем в кому после того, как в него стреляли. Она встречается лицом к лицу со многими людьми, которые пытаются разгадать, что же произошло с ее сыном. Но, может быть, в маленьком эстонском городке, где все все знают друг о друге, за исключением того, что произошло прямо у них под носом, даже самое нерасторопное в мире преступление останется неразгаданным.
Azrael
In a world in which no one speaks a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness - but she has other ideas.
Azrael
In a world in which no one speaks, a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman, Azrael, who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness – but she has other ideas.