Priit Pius

Priit Pius

Born: February 4, 1989
in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tallinn, Estonia]
Priit Pius (born February 4, 1989) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actor whose career began in the 2010s.

Priit Pius was born in Tallinn to Jüri and Nelli Pius (née Paap). His twin brother is actor Märt Pius. He has one older brother, as well as two half-siblings from his father's previous marriage. He grew up in and attended schools in Tallinn before the family moved to the small village of Mällikvere in Jõgeva County, where he graduated from secondary school in 2008. Afterward, both he and his twin brother Märt enrolled in the Performing Arts Department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre to study acting, graduating in 2012. Pius' diploma production roles were as Tuomas in Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, Gerry Evans in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, and as Tom Canty in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.

Priit Pius was in a long-term relationship with actress Maiken Schmidt. They had a son on 22 March 2018 and married in July 2019. On 18 March 2020, they had a daughter.

Both Priit and Märt Pius have been diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus type 1 and speak openly about living with the condition in order to raise awareness of the illness.

Movies for Priit Pius...

Two of Me
Title: Two of Me
Released: November 29, 2024
Type: Movie
Twin filmmakers set out to make the world's best movie about twins.
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Title: Elu võimalikkusest maal
Character: Taavi
Released: November 16, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Estonia
Character: Siim Pärn
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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Child Machine
Title: Child Machine
Character: Tauno
Released: May 12, 2023
Type: Movie
9-year old girl, vacationing with her parents in a remote bog, gets trapped in a secret bunker where an AI-startup is nearing the completion of super-intelligent AI. Both the girl and the AI want to escape.
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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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Attack on Finland
Title: Attack on Finland
Character: Stanko
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
The reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace is attacked and the state leadership is taken hostage. Max Tanner of the Security Police is appointed as a negotiator in the hostage crisis, that unfolds as part of a bigger plan to undermine European security.
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Phantom Owl Forest
Title: Phantom Owl Forest
Character: Laurits
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A 10-year old girl's Christmas plans take an unexpected turn after she is brought to a mysterious Estonian farm.
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Title: Alo
Character: Martin
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: TV
A comedy series about an aspiring salesman working in a car dealership whose life is far from what he would have liked. Competition is fierce and only a few remain at the top. From friendship to hatred is just one small step ...
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Green Cats
Title: Green Cats
Character: Judicial Officer
Released: November 20, 2017
Type: Movie
This is a story of two old folks, who have spent most of their lives behind prison walls. Now, as seventy year old men, they have been granted amnesty. Both men have a passionate desire to change their lives according to certain plans.
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The End of the Chain
Title: The End of the Chain
Character: LARP 1
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a breakthrough? The main character, Waitress, sees and absorbs it all. One by one – through their personal drama – the clients push the Waitress towards her own edge.
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Title: Kriipsud uksepiidal
Character: Markus
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: TV
This story is about drawing dashes. The dashes are pulled down, the dashes are pulled on, and the dashes are pulled on the doorknob to see how much these children have grown again. How does this growing up work? And why doesn't it always work?
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Ghost Mountaineer
Title: Ghost Mountaineer
Character: Eero
Released: November 27, 2015
Type: Movie
An Estonian student hiking group get caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle, becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip and disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. A weird and insane chain of events is unleashed which seems to be orchestrated by the missing Olle. In a foreign land and among people they do not know, the hikers are faced with a task which they at first do not want to undertake and later are unable to tackle.
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1944
Title: 1944
Character: Brother Käär
Released: February 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.
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In The Land That Sings
Title: In The Land That Sings
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Looking for solutions of an efficient management and creation significant ideas to flourish Latvian culture and education, leaders of the Riga Latvian Society decide to hold the 1st Latvian Singing Festival back in 1873. At the beginning there are only four of them, very soon others – Latvians, Baltic Germans and Russians get involved, both influential persons of the society, countless volunteers from Riga, Livonia and Courland governorates. Also twenty-year-old Anna, whose desire to sing is stronger, despite the obstacles she has like any woman in that period of history, finds a way to join. By singing she finds self-confidence, power, joy of life and sense of unity, flourishing together with the Latvian nation, becoming a symbol of woman’s freedom.