
Maria Klenskaja
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 29, 1951
- Died
- January 6, 2022 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography

On the Water
Movie · as Mamma

The Little Comrade
Movie · as Grandma Minna Katariina

The Fencer
Movie · as Teacher

Revenge Office
TV · as Olga · 2 eps
The Great Magician
Movie · as Aunt Ursula

Georg
Movie · as Ingeborg

Visit of an Old Lady
Movie · as Police Chief's Wife
Ohtlik Lend
TV · as Ella Juntas · 10 eps

Grisha
Movie

The Boys of Wikman
TV · as Mrs. Jakovleva · 2 eps

You Are My Only Love
Movie · as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Cabbage Head
Movie · as (voice)

Those Old Love-letters
Movie · as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)

Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Movie · as Tom's Mother

The Sunny Kids
Movie

Autumn
Movie · as Liisi Paavel

Three Jolly Fellows
Movie · as Muhv (voice)

Friends, Comrades
Movie · as Madam

Handmaiden
Movie

Awakening
Movie · as City Woman

Doctor Stockmann
Movie · as Katrine Stockmann

Stolen Meeting
Movie · as Valentina Saar

The Joys of Midlife
Movie · as Pille Loorits

In One Hundred Years in May
Movie · as Alma Oinas

Three Jolly Fellows 2
Movie · as Muhv (voice)

Breakfast on the Grass
Movie · as (voice) (uncredited)

The Gang
Movie

Smile at Last
Movie · as Ülo's Lover

Three Jolly Fellows
Movie · as Muhv (voice)

Vinski of the Town
Movie · as Pillow Club Miss

The Triangle
Movie · as Julia (voice) (uncredited)

Murder on the 31st Floor
Movie · as Anna Hollman's friend

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Movie · as Ester

Indrek
Movie · as Miralda

Hit Back
Movie


