Maria Klenskaja
Actor
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
You Are My Only Love
as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya) 1993
Breakfast on the Grass
as (voice) (uncredited) 1987
The Little Comrade
as Grandma Minna Katariina 2018
Smile at Last
as Ülo's Lover 1985
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
as Tom's Mother 1992
The Triangle
as Julia (voice) (uncredited) 1982
Autumn
as Liisi Paavel 1990
Georg
as Ingeborg 2007
Friends, Comrades
as Madam 1990
Stolen Meeting
as Valentina Saar 1989
Those Old Love-letters
as Mrs. Muna (uncredited) 1992
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice) 1984
The Joys of Midlife
as Pille Loorits 1987
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
as Ester 1977
Awakening
as City Woman 1990
Cabbage Head
as (voice) 1993