Virve Aruoja

Virve Aruoja

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1922-02-19
Deathday: 2013-09-15 (91 years old)

Biography

Virve Aruoja (since 1978 Virve Aruoja-Hellström; February 19, 1922 Saduküla – September 15, 2013) was an Estonian television and film director and former actress.


Aruoja graduated from the University of Tartu's Tartu Teachers' Seminary in 1941. She studied at the State Drama Studio in Tallinn from 1945 until 1947, then continued her studies at the Estonian Studio of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow, graduating in 1953. In 1984 received a master's degree in philology from Uppsala University in Sweden.


From 1942 until 1945, she was an actress and member of the Vanemuine Opera Choir. From 1945 until 1947, she was engaged as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. In 1947, she returned to Tartu and the Vanemuine as an actress until 1949. From 1953 until 1956, she returned to the stage of the Estonian Drama Theatre.


From 1956 until 1978, she was an assistant director and director at Eesti Televisioon (ETV), and a film director at Tallinnfilm from 1972 until 1976.


In 2001 she was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class.


Aruoja lived in Sweden from 1978 until 1994, when she returned to Estonia. She spent the last years of her life on the island of Hiiumaa

Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1922-02-19

Deathday
2013-09-15 (91 years old)

Citizenships
Soviet Union, Estonia

Also Known As
Virve Aruoja-Hellström, Virve Arbeiter

Awards
Order of the White Star, 5th Class

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