Biography

Tarmo Männard (born January 11, 1968) is an Estonian actor. Männard went to a kindergarten named after Valentina Tereshkova in Tallinn. He studied 1974-1977 at the 39th Secondary School in Tallinn, 1977-1982, 1982-1985 at the Keila-Joa Sanatorium Forest School and 1985-1987 at the 9th Secondary School in Tallinn. He studied acting at the Tallinn Pioneers and Koolinoorte Palace Theater Circle (Pioneeride Theater, directed by Maret Oomer) and at the Estonian Music Academy's Higher Performing Arts School (1990-1994, tutor Ingo Normet). He has worked as a window washer at TK Ekspress, as a recording equipment mechanic at Tallinnfilm, as a waiter at the Soviet Army Pigalle, as an actor at the Tallinn City Theater in 1994-2001. From 2002 to 2018, he was an actor at NUKU Theatre. Since then, he has been a freelancer and works mainly in Nipi Mängumaa, which he created himself. As an actor, he has participated, for example, in the Kellerteatr production "School of Horrors". In 1995, he ran for the VIII Riigikogu on the list of the Four Forces of the electoral alliance formed by the Estonian Greens and the Estonian Royalist Party, collecting 104 votes, but was not elected.