Born

Tallinn, Harju District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]

Biography

Merle Jääger (born October 19, 1965) is an Estonian television, stage and film actress, poet and author who frequently uses the pen name Merca. Initially associated with the burgeoning Estonian punk rock scene of the early to mid 1980s, she has been described as the "bard of protest".