Acting
Birthday: 1915-10-29
Place of Birth: Reval, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Estonia]
Evi Rauer (October 29, 1915 – September 17, 2004) was an Estonian stage, film and television actress and television director whose career spanned more than sixty years. Evi Rauer was born in Tallinn to Kustav Rauer, who was an Estonian champion wrestler, and Johanna Katariina Rauer (née Wisel). She spent most summers with family in Haimre, Märjamaa Parish, Rapla County. At age four, her mother was diagnosed with a severe lung ailment and died a year later. Her father would later remarry and emigrate to Sweden following the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940. She attended schools in Tallinn, graduating from the Elfriede Lender Girls' Private Gymnasium in 1935. From 1936 until 1939, she studied acting at the Tallinn Töölisteater.
