Kirill Käro
Kirill Valerievich Käro (Russian: Кири́лл Вале́рьевич Кя́ро; born 24 February 1975) is a Russian actor of Estonian descent. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013–2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of the Netflix sci-fi series Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the thriller series To the Lake (2020).
Kirill Käro was born in Tallinn, Estonia. His father was a sea captain of mixed Estonian-Russian descent, and his Russian mother was a teacher. His first cousin, once removed, is actor Volli Käro. After graduating from secondary school at Lasnamäe in 1992, Käro entered a five-year acting course at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. Following graduation in 1997, he continued to work at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute under the mentorship of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
Käro returned to Tallinn in 1999, acting at the Russian Theatre for five years, before going back to Moscow to the Praktika Theatre in 2004.
Käro's career in film and television began in 2008 with various small parts. In 2013, he landed the leading role in The Sniffer, for which he won the Association of Film and TV Producers award in the category Best Actor.
In 2019, he played the main role of George Safronov in sixteen episodes of the Netflix Russian android thriller series Better than Us.
In 2020, Käro starred as Sergey in the lead role of the Russian television series To the Lake. The show was acquired by Netflix and broadcast in October 2020.
Acted in
Man and Woman
2025
Gum
2024
Both are Two
2024
Yug
2024
Summer Will Come
2024
Abnormal
2024
Truth
2024
Gloss
2023
as отец Анны
Nina
2023
as Boris
Cerberus
2023
Syndrome
2023
It Happens to People
2023
Diagnosis is «Lucky»
2023
as Антон
Live
2023
Detector
2023
God Complex
2023
as Alexey
Social Network
2023
Neuro
2022
Dad the Terrible
2022
as Nikita
Additional Lesson
2022
Право на свободу
2022
Like Father, Like Son
2022
as le chauffeur routier
Who's There?
2022
Ask Martha
2022
Layer
2022
«Lucky»
2021
as Арье
Insomnia
2021
Unreachable
2021
Sunflower
2021
Ivan's Happiness
2021
8 Ways to Love
2021
Love and Monsters
2021
Passengers
2020
Passengers
2020
as Andrey
Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut
2020
Call Me Blackbird
2020
Литра 2.0
2020
Расплата
2019
To the Lake
2019
as Sergey
Формат бабочки
2019
Vongozero: The Outbreak
2019
as Sergey
Better Than Us
2018
as Georgy Safronov
Живой
2018
as Олег Сорокин (журналист)
The Voice of The Sea
2018
as Иван
Frontier
2018
as врач Лаврусенко
Green Cats
2017
as Kirill
Консультант
2017
as Вячеслав Александрович Широков — консультант-психолог, кандидат наук
Научи меня жить
2016
All That Jam
2016
as Fedka sosed
Rag Union
2016
as policeman
Motherland
2015
as Хофман
Infidelities
2015
as Кирилл
Побег из Москвабада
2015
The Fencer
2015
as Aleksey
Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
2014
as Waiter (segment The Constant)
Star
2014
The Sniffer
2013
as детектив-консультант
Legs - Atavism
2012
as Norvegov
Three Days of Lieutenant Kravtsov
2012
as Ruytel
Boris Godunov
2011
as Kurbskiy
Insignificant Details of the Accidental Episode
2011
as He
The Afghan Caravan
2011
Rat Trap
2011
as Pjotr
Chelovek Niotkuda
2010
as Алексей
Red Mercury
2010
as Sämm
V Centuria. Searching For a Charmed Treasure
2010
as Yan Vilis
We Are from the Future 2
2010
Zhurov
2009
as Kostya
Dove
2009
as Volodka Hippie
Help Gone Mad
2009
as grandson
Глухарь
2008
as Gena Kruglov - narkoman
Valery Kharlamov. Additional time
2007
Girls
2006
as Антон
Чучело
as Anya's father
Проездом
Hypnosis
Something Positive
Chelyuskin. First
Pavel. The First and the Last
How to Tame a Fox