Esko Kovero is a Finnish

Finland

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 actor. He is known best as the role of Ismo Laitela in the Finnish soap series Salatut elämät

Salatut Elämät

Salatut elämät is a Finnish 30-minute long soap opera broadcast on MTV3. It was the first Finnish daily soap opera. Its first episode aired on January 25, 1999...

of MTV3

MTV3

MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

, but he has appeared also in few movies and the theatre. He had finished from Theater school for Master of Theater Arts in 1983. Among other things, he has occupational degrees of electrician and instrument mechanic. He is an Orthodox Christian.

Filmography

• Thilia Thalia (2 episodes, 2002)
• Pako punaisten päämajasta - Haapalainen (2000)
• Salatut elämät
  Salatut Elämät
  Salatut elämät is a Finnish 30-minute long soap opera broadcast on MTV3. It was the first Finnish daily soap opera. Its first episode aired on January 25, 1999...
  
   (1999) – Ismo Laitela (1999–present)
• Elämän suola - Markku Pohjonen (1 episode, 1996)
• Talvisota
  Talvisota (film)
  The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka, based on The Winter War, a novel by Antti Tuuri. It tells the story of a Finnish infantry regiment "JR 23", which consists almost solely of men from Southern Ostrobothnia, focusing mainly on a platoon of reservists from Kauhava...
  
   - Juho Pernaa (1989)
• Enkelipeli (1986)
• Sadetanssi (1983)
• Kiljusen Herrasväki - Police (1981)
• Leikin varjolla (1 episode, 2006)