Mart Toome

Actor

Born: March 7, 1980 (age 46)

Mart Toome (born March 7, 1980) is an Estonian stage, television, and film actor.

Mart Toome was born Enge, Halinga Parish, in Pärnu County in 1980. He is a 2002 graduate of the EMA Higher Drama School (now the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) in Tallinn under direction of actor, director and theatre pedagogue Elmo Nüganen. Among his graduating classmates were actors: Elisabet Reinsalu, Priit Võigemast, Ott Aardam, Hele Kõrve, Karin Rask, Evelin Võigemast, Maria Soomets, and Argo Aadli.

Toome's feature film debut was in the role of Miljan in the 2002 Elmo Nüganen directed period war film Nimed marmortahvlil for Taska Film. The film was an adaptation of the 1936 Albert Kivikas penned novel of the same name chronicling students in Tartu who enlist to fight in the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence. In 2005, he appeared in a small role in the Peeter Urbla directed comedy-drama Stiilipidu for Exitfilm about three women (played by Maarja Jakobson, Anne Reemann, and Evelin Võigemast) who lose their jobs and open a costume rental business.