Merle Palmiste

[3] Among her graduating classmates were Andres Raag, Kristel Leesmend, Ivo Uukkivi, Jaanus Rohumaa, Üllar Saaremäe, Kaili Närep, Dan Põldroos, Sten Zupping, Tiina Mälberg and Garmen Tabor.

Throughout her career at the Estonian Drama Theatre, she has performed in roles of works by such international authors and playwrights as: Luigi Pirandello, Yukio Mishima, Michael Frayn, Tankred Dorst, Noël Coward, Arthur Miller, Hermann Bahr, Charles Dickens, Per Olov Enquist, Ayn Rand, Molière, Alan Ayckbourn, Terry Pratchett, Neil Simon, Hristo Boytchev, Evgeny Schwartz, John Patrick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paul Lucas, Henrik Ibsen, Conor McPherson, Juan Rulfo, Ernest Hemingway, John Hodge, Tom Stoppard and Jordi Galceran.

[3] Roles in productions of works by Estonian authors and playwrights include: Andrus Kivirähk, Merle Karusoo, Madis Kõiv, Eduard Vilde, Jaan Kross, Eva Koff, Toomas Kall, Hendrik Toompere, and Vaino Vahing, among others.

[9] In 2013, she appeared in the role of Karin Viisla in the René Vilbre-directed family-fantasy film Väikelinna detektiivid ja valge daami saladus, produced by Balti Video and Eesti Rahvusringhääling.

[10] In 2016, she appeared in a small role as Mari in the Triin Ruumet-directed tragicomedy Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse, about a young, disaffected man played by Hendrik Toompere Jr. Jr. on a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia in the late 1990s trying to discover purpose and meaning in his life.

[12] In 2020, she voiced several characters in the Meelis Arulepp and Karsten Kiilerich directed animated feature film Sipsik, based on the popular 1962 children's book of the same title by Eno Raud.

[15] Other substantial television film roles include the 2001 TV3 spy-comedy Kodumaa parim poeg ehk eriagent 1188,[3] and the character of Ingrid in the 2005 Rainer Sarnet-directed ETV feature-length comedy-drama Libahundi needus.