Merle Jääger

October 19, 1965 — Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

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".