Cast
Maria Klenskaja
Acting
Cast
Maria Klenskaja
Known for
Acting
Born
1951-01-29
From
Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Died
2022-01-06
Also known as Maria Klenskaya, Мария Каленская, Marija Klenskaja
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.
The Fencer
as Teacher
The Little Comrade
as Grandma Minna Katariina
Grisha
Cabbage Head
as (voice)
Murder on the 31st Floor
as Anna Hollman's friend
Autumn
as Liisi Paavel
In One Hundred Years in May
as Alma Oinas
You Are My Only Love
as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Georg
as Ingeborg
On the Water
as Mamma
Awakening
as City Woman
The Gang
Three Jolly Fellows 2
as Muhv (voice)
Visit of an Old Lady
as Police Chief's Wife
Friends, Comrades
as Madam
The Joys of Midlife
as Pille Loorits
Handmaiden
Doctor Stockmann
as Katrine Stockmann
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
as Ester
Indrek
as Miralda
Smile at Last
as Ülo's Lover
Hit Back
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
as Tom's Mother
The Sunny Kids
Those Old Love-letters
as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
Breakfast on the Grass
as (voice) (uncredited)
Stolen Meeting
as Valentina Saar
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice)
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice)
The Great Magician
as Aunt Ursula
The Triangle
as Julia (voice) (uncredited)