Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 29, 1951
Died
Jan 06, 2022
Place of Birth
Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
Credits
34 titles
Maria Klenskaja
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
Filmography
On the Water
Mamma
The Little Comrade
Grandma Minna Katariina
The Fencer
Teacher
Revenge Office
Olga
Georg
Ingeborg
The Great Magician
Aunt Ursula
Ohtlik Lend
Ella Juntas
Visit of an Old Lady
Police Chief's Wife
Grisha
The Boys of Wikman
Mrs. Jakovleva
Cabbage Head
(voice)
You Are My Only Love
Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Tom's Mother
Those Old Love-letters
Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
The Sunny Kids
Autumn
Liisi Paavel
Handmaiden
Friends, Comrades
Madam
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
Awakening
City Woman
Doctor Stockmann
Katrine Stockmann
Stolen Meeting
Valentina Saar
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Muhv (voice)
Breakfast on the Grass
(voice) (uncredited)
In One Hundred Years in May
Alma Oinas
The Joys of Midlife
Pille Loorits
The Gang
Smile at Last
Ülo's Lover
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
The Triangle
Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Murder on the 31st Floor
Anna Hollman's friend
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Ester
Indrek
Miralda
Hit Back