Maria Klenskaja
Acting
Born: 1951-01-29 in Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
Biography
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.
Known For
The Fencer
Teacher
Breakfast on the Grass
(voice) (uncredited)
You Are My Only Love
Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Smile at Last
Ülo's Lover
The Little Comrade
Grandma Minna Katariina
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Tom's Mother
The Triangle
Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Autumn
Liisi Paavel
Georg
Ingeborg
Stolen Meeting
Valentina Saar
Friends, Comrades
Madam
Those Old Love-letters
Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
The Joys of Midlife
Pille Loorits
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
Awakening
City Woman
The Gang
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Ester
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
Doctor Stockmann
Katrine Stockmann
On the Water
Mamma
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Muhv (voice)
Handmaiden
Murder on the 31st Floor
Anna Hollman's friend
Revenge Office
Olga
The Boys of Wikman
Mrs. Jakovleva
In One Hundred Years in May
Alma Oinas
Hit Back
Grisha
The Sunny Kids
Visit of an Old Lady
Police Chief's Wife
Indrek
Miralda