Mari Lill (born December 21, 1945) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress whose career began onstage in the late 1960s.
Mari Lill was born in Tallinn to Felix Lill and Asta Lill (née Multer) just after the end of World War II and the Soviet occupation and annexation of Estonia. Her father Felix was arrested by Soviet authorities and spent several years sentenced to forced labor in the gulag system in Siberia when she was still an infant. He was later able to return to the family when Mari was quite young. Lill is the middle child of three siblings; she has an older sister Kadri, and her younger brother was glass artist Ivo Lill. Lill grew up and attended schools in the district of Nõmme and spent time visiting her grandmother on the island of Saaremaa.
After graduating from secondary school, Lill studied acting under the supervision of course instructor Voldemar Panso at the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). Her diploma production was in the role of Helen Keller in a 1967 staging of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker. She graduated in 1968. Among her graduating classmates were actors Helle-Reet Helenurm, Katrin Karisma, Raivo Trass, Enn Klooren, Jaan Tooming, Peeter Jakobi, and Kalju Komissarov.
2024
as Grandma
2024
as Handbagless Old Lady
2023
as Granny Aino
2021
as Old Lady
2021
as Old Lady
2020
as Grandma
2018
as Carer
2017
as Kai Savolainen (Virgin)
2016
as Old Lady
2012
as Spider (voice)
2009
as Krista Tuvi
2007
as Cashier #1
1998
as Kupeldaja
1995
as Mrs. Laasik
1994
as Madam Mihkel
1992
1991
as Maile
1990
1989
as Asta
1985
as Robi's Mother
1977
as Anton's Wife
1975
as The Little Witch
1972
as Üxküll's Daughter (uncredited)