Ellen Alaküla (30 April 1927 – 15 January 2011) was an Estonian stage, radio, television, and film actress and theatre teacher whose career spanned over forty years.
[3][4][5] Throughout her long career as a stage actress, she had performed in roles in works by such varied international authors and playwrights as: Shakespeare, Nikolai Pogodin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Nâzım Hikmet, George Bernard Shaw, Victor Hugo, and Leo Tolstoy, among others.
Memorable roles in works by Estonian authors and playwrights include those of: August Kitzberg, Eino Alt, A. H. Tammsaare, Egon Rannet, Enn Vetemaa, and Hugo Raudsepp.
[7] In 1970, Ellen Alaküla made her feature-length film debut as the character Ulla in the Kalju Komissarov directed Soviet-Estonian thriller Valge laev for Tallinnfilm.
This was followed by the role of the wife of the villainous Baron von Üxküll in the 1972 Madis Ojamaa directed historical fiction-adventure film Verekivi, again for Tallinnfilm.
The next year, she appeared in the Valdur Himbek directed Tuli öös, a story about children caught between danger and doing what is noble during the German occupation of Estonia.
[12] Throughout her years as an actress, Alaküla has also appeared in a number of radio plays; one of her most memorable performances being the role of Marie Antoinette in a production of Lion Feuchtwanger's The Widow Capet in 1961.