Anne Margiste

Anne Margiste (often credited as Anne-Reet Margiste; born August 3, 1942), is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress whose career began in the mid-1960s.

Anne-Reet Margiste was born in Vääna, the only child of Vootele Margiste and Vanda-Dagmar Margiste (née Altberg). She attended primary and secondary schools in Tallinn, graduating from Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 (now, Tallinn English College) in 1960. Afterward, she studied acting at the Viktor Kingissepp Tallinn State Academic Drama Theatre in Tallinn (now, the Estonian Drama Theatre), graduating in 1965. Margiste also attended the University of Tartu, majoring in the Estonian language, graduating in 1970.

From 1965 until 1973, Anne Margiste was engaged as an actress at the Rakvere Theatre in Rakvere. Her first major role was that of Miranda in a 1966 production of Max Frisch's Don Juan or The Love of Geometry. Margiste left the Rakvere Theatre in 1973 to join the Ugala Theatre in Viljandi, where she was engaged until 2005.