Maria Klenskaja
Acting • Born 1951-01-29 – Died 2022-01-06
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.
Filmography
34 credits
Those Old Love-letters
Movie • 1992
Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
The Great Magician
Movie • 2007
Aunt Ursula
You Are My Only Love
Movie • 1993
Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Movie • 1992
Tom's Mother
Autumn
Movie • 1990
Liisi Paavel
Georg
Movie • 2007
Ingeborg
The Joys of Midlife
Movie • 1987
Pille Loorits
Smile at Last
Movie • 1985
Ülo's Lover
Three Jolly Fellows
Movie • 1990
Muhv (voice)
Friends, Comrades
Movie • 1990
Madam
The Triangle
Movie • 1982
Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Visit of an Old Lady
Movie • 2006
Police Chief's Wife
Three Jolly Fellows
Movie • 1984
Muhv (voice)
In One Hundred Years in May
Movie • 1987
Alma Oinas
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Movie • 1987
Muhv (voice)
Hit Back
Movie • 1975
Handmaiden
Movie • 1990
The Fencer
Movie • 2015
Teacher
Indrek
Movie • 1976
Miralda
The Little Comrade
Movie • 2018
Grandma Minna Katariina
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Movie • 1977
Ester
Doctor Stockmann
Movie • 1989
Katrine Stockmann
Awakening
Movie • 1990
City Woman
Stolen Meeting
Movie • 1989
Valentina Saar
Breakfast on the Grass
Movie • 1987
(voice) (uncredited)
On the Water
Movie • 2021
Mamma
Grisha
Movie • 1996
The Sunny Kids
Movie • 1992
Cabbage Head
Movie • 1993
(voice)
The Gang
Movie • 1986
Murder on the 31st Floor
Movie • 1981
Anna Hollman's friend
Revenge Office
TV • 2009
Olga
The Boys of Wikman
TV • 1995
Mrs. Jakovleva
Ohtlik Lend
TV • 2006
Ella Juntas