Name
Maria Klenskaja
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1951-01-29
Deathday
2022-01-06 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
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
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In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. H...
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Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his...
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Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come toget...
6.8
A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be...
6.1
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage whi...
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A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do ...
5.2
Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one ...
- 1992 Those Old Love-letters as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
- 2007 The Great Magician as Aunt Ursula
- 1993 You Are My Only Love as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
- 1992 Lamb in the Down Right Corner as Tom's Mother
- 1990 Autumn as Liisi Paavel
- 2007 Georg as Ingeborg
- 1987 The Joys of Midlife as Pille Loorits
- 1985 Smile at Last as Ülo's Lover
- 1990 Three Jolly Fellows as Muhv (voice)
- 1990 Friends, Comrades as Madam
- 1982 The Triangle as Julia (voice) (uncredited)
- 2006 Visit of an Old Lady as Police Chief's Wife
- 1984 Three Jolly Fellows as Muhv (voice)
- 1987 In One Hundred Years in May as Alma Oinas
- 1987 Three Jolly Fellows 2 as Muhv (voice)
- 1975 Hit Back
- 1990 Handmaiden
- 2015 The Fencer as Teacher
- 1976 Indrek as Miralda
- 2018 The Little Comrade as Grandma Minna Katariina
- 1977 Ask the Dead About the Price of Death as Ester
- 1989 Doctor Stockmann as Katrine Stockmann
- 1990 Awakening as City Woman
- 1989 Stolen Meeting as Valentina Saar
- 1987 Breakfast on the Grass as (voice) (uncredited)
- 2021 On the Water as Mamma
- 1996 Grisha
- 1992 The Sunny Kids
- 1993 Cabbage Head as (voice)
- 1986 The Gang
- 1981 Murder on the 31st Floor as Anna Hollman's friend
- 2009 Revenge Office ( 2 episodes ) as Olga
- 1995 The Boys of Wikman ( 2 episodes ) as Mrs. Jakovleva
- 2006 Ohtlik Lend ( 10 episodes ) as Ella Juntas
