Acting
Salme Reek
- Born
- Nov 10, 1907 · Aged 88
- Died
- Jun 9, 1996
- Place of birth
- Pernau, Pernau County, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Pärnu, Pärnu County, Estonia]
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 28
- TV credits
- 0
Also known as (1)
- Сальме Рээк
Biography
Salme Reek (November 10, 1907 – June 6, 1996) was an Estonian stage, film, radio, and television actress and stage director whose career spanned nearly seventy years; sixty-six of which were spent as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre. Salme Helene Reek was the oldest of three siblings born to paper pulp factory worker Juhan Reek and housewife Julia Reek (née Erberg) in Pärnu. Her younger siblings were Hilda (1911–1990), and Oskar (1922–1939) who died at age seventeen. During Reek's early years, the family lived in near-poverty in a one-room apartment on Suur-Kuke Street, later moving…
