Biography

Virve Aruoja (since 1978 Virve Aruoja-Hellström; February 19, 1922 Saduküla – September 15, 2013) was an Estonian television and film director and former actress. Aruoja graduated from the University of Tartu's Tartu Teachers' Seminary in 1941. She studied at the State Drama Studio in Tallinn from 1945 until 1947, then continued her studies at the Estonian Studio of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow, graduating in 1953. In 1984 received a master's degree in philology from Uppsala University in Sweden. From 1942 until 1945, she was an actress and member of the Vanemuine Opera Choir.