Maria Klenskaja
Maria Klenskaja (January 29, 1951 – January 6, 2022) was an Estonian actress.
Klenskaja was born in Tartu, of Russian parentage. From 1968 until 1970, she worked in the Estonian State Youth Theatre in Tallinn as a make-up artist and in the prop department. In 1974 she graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory's Performing Arts Department. Since 1974 she had been a contracted actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre. She was also engaged as an actress at the Vanalinnastuudio for one year, beginning in 1989.
Besides theatre roles she also had a successful film career and appeared on television and in radio theatre.
Klenskaja was in a relationship with actor Aarne Üksküla for over thirty years, until his death in 2017. Klenskaja died on 6 January 2022, aged 70, following a prolonged illness.
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Films (32)
On the Water
2021 · Mamma
The Little Comrade
2018 · Grandma Minna Katariina
Le Maître d'escrime
2015 · Teacher
Georg
2007 · Ingeborg
The Great Magician
2007 · Aunt Ursula
Visit of an Old Lady
2006 · Police Chief's Wife
Grisha
1996
Cabbage Head
1993 · (voice)
You Are My Only Love
1993 · Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992 · Tom's Mother
Those Old Love-letters
1992 · Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
The Sunny Kids
1992
Autumn
1990 · Liisi Paavel
Handmaiden
1990
Friends, Comrades
1990 · Madam
Three Jolly Fellows
1990 · Muhv (voice)
Awakening
1990 · City Woman
Doctor Stockmann
1989 · Katrine Stockmann
Stolen Meeting
1989 · Valentina Saar
Three Jolly Fellows 2
1987 · Muhv (voice)
Breakfast on the Grass
1987 · (voice) (uncredited)
In One Hundred Years in May
1987 · Alma Oinas
The Joys of Midlife
1987 · Pille Loorits
The Gang
1986
Smile at Last
1985 · Ülo's Lover
Three Jolly Fellows
1984 · Muhv (voice)
Vinski of the Town
1983 · Pillow Club Miss
The Triangle
1982 · Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Murder on the 31st Floor
1981 · Anna Hollman's friend
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
1977 · Ester
Indrek
1976 · Miralda
Hit Back
1975
