Indrek Taalmaa (born 9 July 1967)[1] is an Estonian stage, television, voice, film actor, and theatre director whose career began in the early 1990s.
[2] In 1986, he entered the Drama School of the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), but was conscripted into the Soviet Army and spent two years deployed to Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War.
[7] The following year, he portrayed Konstantin Päts, the first head of government, in the twelve-part ETV historical drama television mini-series Tuulepealne maa.
From 2010 until 2012, he played the role of Villem Kadak on the ETV comedy series ENSV: Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik, which reflects on life during the 1980s in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.
[12] Other roles followed in the 2005 Rainer Sarnet-directed thriller Libahundi needus and the 2006 Elmo Nüganen-directed comedy Meeletu; both of which were originally aired on Estonian television, then released theatrically.
The following year, he appeared in the Ergo Kuld directed romance-drama Soo, screen written by Martin Algus and based on the novel 1914 novel of the same name by Oskar Luts.