Maria Klenskaja
ActingMaria 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
You Are My Only Love
Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Awakening
City Woman
The Little Comrade
Grandma Minna Katariina
Georg
Ingeborg
Visit of an Old Lady
Police Chief's Wife
The Gang
Autumn
Liisi Paavel
In One Hundred Years in May
Alma Oinas
On the Water
Mamma
Filmography — Acting
The Fencer
Teacher
You Are My Only Love
Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Awakening
City Woman
The Little Comrade
Grandma Minna Katariina
Georg
Ingeborg
Visit of an Old Lady
Police Chief's Wife
The Gang
Autumn
Liisi Paavel
In One Hundred Years in May
Alma Oinas
On the Water
Mamma
Doctor Stockmann
Katrine Stockmann
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Ester
Friends, Comrades
Madam
Murder on the 31st Floor
Anna Hollman's friend
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Tom's Mother
The Joys of Midlife
Pille Loorits
Grisha
Those Old Love-letters
Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
Smile at Last
Ülo's Lover
Breakfast on the Grass
(voice) (uncredited)
Indrek
Miralda
Cabbage Head
(voice)
The Sunny Kids
Stolen Meeting
Valentina Saar
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
Hit Back
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
The Triangle
Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Muhv (voice)
Handmaiden
The Great Magician
Aunt Ursula