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Ain Mäeots

Acting

0.1 Popularity Dec 25, 1971 (53 years old) Võru, Estonian SRR, USSR [now Estonia]

Ain Mäeots (born December 25, 1971) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actor and stage, film, and television director and producer.

Ain Mäeots' first film role as an actor was a small role in the 2000 Mare Raidma directed short Lunastus, for Faama Film and Eesti Televisioon. In 2005, he a...

Biography

Ain Mäeots (born December 25, 1971) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actor and stage, film, and television director and producer.

Ain Mäeots' first film role as an actor was a small role in the 2000 Mare Raidma directed short Lunastus, for Faama Film and Eesti Televisioon. In 2005, he appeared in his first feature-length film as Lembitu in the Kaaren Kaer directed comedy Malev; a skewed interpretation of Estonia's history set in the year 1208. In 2007, he made a cameo appearance in the Rain Tolk and Andres Maimik directed comedy Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse (English release title: 186 Kilometers), in which Estonian actor Jan Uuspõld plays a down-on-his-luck caricature of himself, trying to hitchhike from Tallinn to Tartu to perform in a role at the Vanemuine theater.

In 2008, Mäeots made his debut as a film director with the Exitfilm biography Taarka, based on the play of the same name by Kauksi Ülle about the difficult life of Seto folk singer Hilana Taarka. Taarka has the distinction of being the first feature-length film in the Seto dialect. Mäeots also made a brief appearance in the film in the role of a villager. Taarka won the 2008 Estonian Cultural Endowment Debut Award.

In 2012, he co-wrote and directed his second film, the drama Deemonid. The film chronicles the unraveling of three people who enter a casino and subsequently confronting their inner demons.

In 2013, he appeared as Erik in the Hardi Volmer directed historical melodrama feature film Elavad pildid, which follows two Estonians, a girl and a boy, born at the beginning of the 20th-century in a Baltic German manor, through the coming decades and all of the revolutions, wars, military occupations, regime collapses, and new beginnings.

In 2015, he played the role of Captain Evald Viires in the Elmo Nüganen directed war film 1944. The film is set in World War II and is shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and thus fight against their fellow countrymen. It was selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. In 2019, he played the role of Joosep in the Mart Sander directed fantasy-horror film Kõhedad muinaslood.

Filmography 29

2025
Jan Uuspõld Goes Home Movie

as Director

2024
The Agency: Central Intelligence TV

as Russian Commander

2023
The Legend of Pitka Movie

Director

2023
Dark Paradise Movie

as Father

2023
Fools of Fame Movie

Director

2022
Tango of Mustamägi Movie

Director

2022
Fathers and Sons Movie

as Telepropagandist Nevzorov

2019
EnsV TV

as Saksa ohvitser

2019
EnsV TV

Director

2019
Eerie Fairy Tales Movie

as Joosep

2019
The Spring of Solitude Movie

as Joosep

2018
Happy Family Movie

as Ingrid's Boss

2017
Lotte's Stories TV

as Hubert / Eduard's Grandfather

2017
Lotte's Stories TV

Director

2017
2015
1944 Movie

as Captain Evald Viires

2013
Living Images Movie

as Erik

2012
Demons Movie

Director

2012
Demons Movie

Screenplay

2010
ENSV TV

as Enn

Photos 1

Ain Mäeots Photo

Personal Details

Known For Acting
Gender Male
Birthday December 25, 1971 (53 years old)
Place of Birth Võru, Estonian SRR, USSR [now Estonia]
Years Active 1995 - 2025
Popularity 0.1
Career Stats
29 Total Credits
11 Movie Roles
6 TV Roles
1 Photos