Ita Ever
Born: 1931-04-01 in Paide, Järva County, Estonia
Died: 2023-08-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ita Ever (born Ilse Ever; April 1, 1931 – August 9, 2023) was an Estonian film, radio, theater and television actress. She was widely regarded as a Grand Old Lady of Estonian theatre. Ever began her career in 1953 as a stage actress and has appeared in numerous Estonian and Russian film productions. She was formerly married to Estonian actor Eino Baskin and was the mother of director/actor Roman Baskin. In 1983, she starred as Miss Marple in Secret of the Blackbirds (Russian: Тайна «Чёрных дроздов», Tayna chyornykh drozdov), the Russian language film adaption of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye. She had appeared in stage and film productions based on the works of: Oskar Luts, A. H. Tammsaare, Mats Traat, Agatha Christie, Nikolai Gogol, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov.
Filmography
2020
- The Salmons: 25 Years Later as Ella Salmon
2016
- When You Least Expect It as Andres' Mother
2013
- Living Images as Helmi
2012
- Baskin as Self
- A Lady in Paris as Mare
2010
- ENSV as Meeta
2008
- Mood Breaker as Various
2006
- Visit of an Old Lady as Claire Zachanassian
- The Power of Fear as Old Lady
2005
- Fed Up! as Mother
2003
2001
1993
- Tear of the Prince of Darkness as Mrs. Kaar
1992
- Luukas as Liisbet
1990
- Autumn as Katarina Rosalie "Mama Kiir"
- Regina as Gerta
- Peril at End House as Milly Croft
- Three Jolly Fellows as The Cat Lady (voice)
- Satellite of the Planet Uranus
1989
- Doctor Stockmann
- Stolen Meeting as Doctor
1987
- Three Jolly Fellows 2 as The Cat Lady (voice)
1985
- The R Document as Hannah Baxter
1984
- Three Jolly Fellows as The Cat Lady (voice)
1983
- Secret of the Blackbirds as Miss Marple
1981
- The Smacking Sea as Toora Jookus / Lööne
- Bumpy as Moor
- Igihaljas vaatemäng as self
1980
- The Master of Kõrboja as Eevi's Mother
1979
- The Visitor
- A Woman Heats the Sauna as Anu
- Bonycrone and Captain Drum as Bonycrone (voice)
1978
- The Pastor of Reigi as Old Hag
- Bonycrone as Bonycrone (voice)
1977
- Time to Live, Time to Love
- Ask the Dead About the Price of Death as Old Prostitute
- My Wife Became a Grandmother as Woman
1975
- A Romper as Grandmother (voice)
1974
- An Unusual Story as Mother
1973
- Fire in the Night as Selgeltnägija
1972
- Little Requiem for Harmonica as Teacher
1970
- Spring as Arno's Mother
- Between Three Plagues as Beggar at Russow's (uncredited)
1969
1967
- What Happened To Andres Lapeteus? as Kaartna
1963
- Under the Same Roof as Laine Arro
1958
- Days of June as Secretary
1957
- In the Backyard as Tatjana
1955
- Andrus' Happiness as Reet