Maria Klenskaja
Actor
- Born
- January 29, 1951 · Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
- Died
- January 6, 2022 (age 70)
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.
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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
March 13, 2015
You Are My Only Love
February 1, 1993
Breakfast on the Grass
August 1, 1987
The Little Comrade
March 23, 2018
Smile at Last
November 28, 1985
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
December 18, 1992
The Triangle
March 2, 1982
Autumn
December 20, 1990
Georg
October 5, 2007
Stolen Meeting
June 5, 1989
Friends, Comrades
November 16, 1990
Those Old Love-letters
June 6, 1992
Acting31
- 2021On the Water as Mamma
- 2018The Little Comrade as Grandma Minna Katariina
- 2015The Fencer as Teacher
- 2007Georg as Ingeborg
- 2007The Great Magician as Aunt Ursula
- 2006Visit of an Old Lady as Police Chief's Wife
- 1996Grisha
- 1993Cabbage Head as (voice)
- 1993You Are My Only Love as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
- 1992Lamb in the Down Right Corner as Tom's Mother