Tiit Lilleorg

Tiit Lilleorg (25 November 1941 – 15 January 2021)[1] was an Estonian stage, film and television actor and co-founder and director of the Ida Dance School.

In 1983, he starred in the Enn Vetemaa penned, Ago-Endrik Kerge directed Eesti Televisioon (ETV) comedy film Püha Susanna ehk meistrite kool in the role of Simeon Wolf, opposite Ita Ever and Urmas Kibuspuu.

This was followed by the role of Aleksander Sõõritsa in the Ago-Endrik Kerge directed television drama film Võtmeküsimus in 1986.

[4] Other prominent roles were that of Sass in the 2005 Rainer Sarnet directed feature film Libahundi needus and as Professor Kantemir in the 2007 Rasmus Merivoo directed comedy film Buratino, based on the 1936 book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, which was itself based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi.

[5] Lilleorg's last film appearance was a small role in the English-language American Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit in 2020.