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Maria Klenskaja

Maria Klenskaja

Actor · Born 1951-01-29 · Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Fencer (2015) — Teacher
  2. You Are My Only Love (1993) — Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
  3. Breakfast on the Grass (1987) — (voice) (uncredited)
  4. Smile at Last (1985) — Ülo's Lover
  5. The Little Comrade (2018) — Grandma Minna Katariina
  6. Lamb in the Down Right Corner (1992) — Tom's Mother
  7. The Triangle (1982) — Julia (voice) (uncredited)
  8. Autumn (1990) — Liisi Paavel
  9. Georg (2007) — Ingeborg
  10. Friends, Comrades (1990) — Madam
  11. Stolen Meeting (1989) — Valentina Saar
  12. Those Old Love-letters (1992) — Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
  13. The Joys of Midlife (1987) — Pille Loorits
  14. Three Jolly Fellows (1984) — Muhv (voice)
  15. Awakening (1990) — City Woman
  16. Cabbage Head (1993) — (voice)
  17. Ask the Dead About the Price of Death (1977) — Ester
  18. The Gang (1986)
  19. Three Jolly Fellows (1990) — Muhv (voice)
  20. Doctor Stockmann (1989) — Katrine Stockmann
  21. On the Water (2021) — Mamma
  22. The Great Magician (2007) — Aunt Ursula
  23. Three Jolly Fellows 2 (1987) — Muhv (voice)
  24. Handmaiden (1990)
  25. Murder on the 31st Floor (1981) — Anna Hollman's friend
  26. Revenge Office (2009) — Olga
  27. The Boys of Wikman (1995) — Mrs. Jakovleva
  28. In One Hundred Years in May (1987) — Alma Oinas
  29. Hit Back (1975)
  30. Grisha (1996)
  31. The Sunny Kids (1992)
  32. Visit of an Old Lady (2006) — Police Chief's Wife
  33. Indrek (1976) — Miralda
  34. Ohtlik Lend (2006) — Ella Juntas