Maria Klenskaja
- Acting
- January 29, 1951 · Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
- January 6, 2022
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