Peeter Oja

Peeter Oja

Born: July 2, 1960
in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Peeter Oja (born July 2, 1960 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor, singer, comedian and media personality.

In 1986 he graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory Stage Art Department. 1986-1989 he worked at Vanemuine Theatre. 1992-1994 he worked at Estonia Theatre. Since 1994 he is a freelance actor.

He has been a member of several musical groups, including Kuldne Trio and Bläck Rokit.

He has hosted several popular television series, e.g. Kitsas king (1985–1987), the comedy ensemble Kreisiraadio (1997–2003), with whom he appeared as Estonia's entry with at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, and Ärapanija (2003–2013). Oja has also appeared in a number of prominent roles in feature films.

Movies for Peeter Oja...

Never Alone
Title: Never Alone
Character: Cohen
Released: January 17, 2025
Type: Movie
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
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Title: Estonia
Character: Teet Toompere
Released: October 15, 2023
Type: TV
Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the cruiseferry M/S Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving personal stories of victims, survivors, loved ones and investigators, the eight-part series explores how it is possible that 852 people lost their lives and no one is held accountable.
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Poop, Spring and Others
Title: Poop, Spring and Others
Character: (voice)
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on Andrus Kivirähk's books "Poo and spring", "Carnival and Potato Salad" and "Ghost and Facebook", the film tells about longing, friendship, love, family and fears, which often have big eyes. The adventures of the strange characters are spiced with the characteristic warm and bold humor of Kivirähk, wittily weaving together the boundless fantasy of children and the living conditions of the modern world.
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Title: Naised Vormis
Character: Karl-Madis Saks
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: TV
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Kids of the Night
Title: Kids of the Night
Character: Liis' Father
Released: July 9, 2021
Type: Movie
A film about three sisters who have reached different turning points in their lives. Liis, who has just graduated from high school, discovers that the future planned with her boyfriend is not so certain. Elder sister Karin, the first victim of her parents' expectations, tries to cope in today's sexist business environment. Jane, the youngest of the sisters, tries to resist the pressure of her party animal friend to prove herself as someone who she is not. During one fateful night, secrets and feelings that none of them wanted to admit to themselves before are revealed.
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Estonian Funeral
Title: Estonian Funeral
Character: Tiit
Released: June 4, 2021
Type: Movie
A wide range of relatives and acquaintances have traveled to a funeral, and as is typical of Estonians, the sad event turns into a comical one as the evening develops. The primordial disputes that arise among the Estonians take on hyperbolic dimensions as events unfold, creating misunderstandings.
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The A-Z of Eurovision
Title: The A-Z of Eurovision
Character: Self - Contestant (Archive Footage)
Released: May 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Rylan Clark-Neal narrates a guide to all things Eurovision and takes a sideways look at the greatest singing contest on the planet. The A-Z of Eurovision features all the disasters, the costume changes and memorable musical moments from 65 years of Eurovision.
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Raggie
Title: Raggie
Character: Teddy (voice)
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A story about a very special and very charming living doll that causes a bit of jealousy between brother and sister, but eventually brings them closer together.
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Kui loll võib inimene olla
Title: Kui loll võib inimene olla
Character: Peeter Oja
Released: August 5, 2014
Type: Movie
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Nüüd tõesti aitab jamast
Title: Nüüd tõesti aitab jamast
Character: Himself
Released: October 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Living Images
Title: Living Images
Character: Hirsch
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
The main character, Helmi, is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. The only thing that she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant girl. Everything else is a discovery during a life that runs the course of a century - a life that has quite a lot of surprises in store for Helmi. In this house she finds happiness and suffering, passion and disappointment. She grows up alongside young Erik and waits for her big love to blossom. But one floor down lives projectionist Julius - a man who is far from indifferent when it comes to Helmi. All of the biggest historical events of the century leave their mark on the house. Its hardwood floors have born soldiers' gruff boots and gentleman's shiny oxfords. Its walls have held the fates of people from far and near, foreigners and locals. Helmi's home becomes a German salon, a revolution museum, and a working class commune. And as freedom comes, real estate crooks start sniffing ...
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Demons
Title: Demons
Character: Miku
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
When Joko, Ants and Reeda, all in their own good reasons, first enter a casino, they can't possibly be aware of the very existence of the demons inside them. Soon enough, they will know. But then it is already too late and their lives are suddenly caught in a fatal vortex.
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Red Mercury
Title: Red Mercury
Character: Buldooser
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
It's the early 90's. A new currency is in circulation in Estonia - the kroon. The former federal republic has become a world leader in non-ferrous metal exports. There is a relentless struggle around this criminal business. It brings new victims every day. Estonia ranks first in Europe in terms of the number of killings. This is just the beginning...
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Taarka
Title: Taarka
Character: Taarka's Father
Released: August 14, 2008
Type: Movie
The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who lived her whole life as an outcast in a small chimney-less hut; as an unmarried mother of children in poverty, begging her bread, doing odd jobs and singing. She always sang the truth, sometimes bitter, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel. She was feared, despised and coveted. Taarka sang throughout her remarkable life, throughout her fate, from a small Seto village to international fame. And she sang well. Really well. Taarka became the Mother of the Song, a legend. But as a woman, as a member of the community, the Seto people never really accepted her. Taarka - a despised woman and a worshiped singer.
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Inherent Obligations
Title: Inherent Obligations
Character: Man
Released: March 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Short film from Rao Heidmets about voyeurism, violence and media. Mixing live action with stop motion animation.
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Lotte from Gadgetville
Title: Lotte from Gadgetville
Character: Adalbert (voice)
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, Lotte's father. His primary rival is Adalbert, whose wife also partakes in the competition. On the eve of the next competition, Lotte and her friend Bruno find a book soaked in the sea, from which Susumu, a gardener from distant Japan, climbs out. Susumu teaches the villagers some judo throws before a big judo competition, which the latter will eagerly use to facilitate their daily lives.
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Touched by the Unknown
Title: Touched by the Unknown
Character: Tipp
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seems that he has to wait forever. One day an alien called Tipp is sent on Earth (by its chief Tapp) to find out the purpose of Estonian children's TV show "Tipp and Tapp". Tipp nestles himself inside Mati's brains that leads the man to unpredictable actions.
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Frank & Wendy
Title: Frank & Wendy
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...
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Made in Estonia
Title: Made in Estonia
Character: Real Estate Commissioner / Kikas
Released: February 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Fantasy and reality dance a wicked tango in this quirky comedy about the misadventures of Mill and Norm, two talented radio actors in Estonia.
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Ladybirds' Christmas
Title: Ladybirds' Christmas
Character: Salvatore (voice)
Released: November 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest.
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Title: Jürgensonid
Released: September 1, 2001
Type: TV
In the summer of 2001, six prominent men moved into an abandoned farmhouse for a week. Following the example of the world-famous reality series "Survivor", everyone was allowed to take only one item they loved. The aim of the men was to test whether it is possible to cope with the minimum wage in today's Estonia, and if so, in what way. "Jürgensonid" is a humorous, fully documentary television study of survivors in local Estonian conditions.
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Saamuel's Internet
Title: Saamuel's Internet
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: May 18, 2000
Type: Movie
Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partner Pink Piglet. The actions take place in Internet, into where Saamuel and his Piglet get by accident. Saamuel understands the importance of information and starts do deal with it.
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Killing Tartu
Title: Killing Tartu
Character: Humphrey
Released: January 30, 1998
Type: Movie
Half the film was shot with a video camera taken from a television station without permission, the cast and staff were unpaid, and the script was written as a screenwriting class assignment.
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The Firewater
Title: The Firewater
Character: Spirit King III
Released: April 14, 1994
Type: Movie
At the end of the 1920-s the Finnish government proclaimed dry law which lasted 12 years. Estonian bootleggers living on the neighboring coast of the Gulf of Finland profited from prohibition......
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City Unplugged
Title: City Unplugged
Character: Dimitri
Released: June 6, 1993
Type: Movie
In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nearly $1 billion in gold bullion hidden in Paris for 50 years. Russian mobsters have a bold plan to hijack the gold after shutting down the capital's power at midnight
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Prompter
Title: Prompter
Character: Henri
Released: April 19, 1993
Type: Movie
The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre. You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies and jesters - and don't expect to hear a symphony but a single delicate sound of a flute.
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Title: Crazy Radio
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Kreisiraadio was an Estonian comedy act, made up of Hannes Võrno, Peeter Oja and Tarmo Leinatamm. They have been around since 1993 with radio and TV sketch shows. Their sketches have introduced the hazardous sport of stoneball, the character of the arrogant man with a flat hat and that of Alev Ström, the Estonian immigrant in Sweden talking nonsense Swedish much in the same way that their Eurovision Song Contest 2008 submission "Leto svet" (Summer Light) uses nonsense Serbian (along with Finnish and German).