Maria Klenskaja
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
Breakfast on the Grass
(voice) (uncredited)
The Triangle
Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Doctor Stockmann
Katrine Stockmann
The Joys of Midlife
Pille Loorits
Cabbage Head
(voice)
Awakening
City Woman
Friends, Comrades
Madam
The Little Comrade
Grandma Minna Katariina
Revenge Office
Olga
Handmaiden
Smile at Last
Ülo's Lover
Stolen Meeting
Valentina Saar
The Great Magician
Aunt Ursula
The Gang
Murder on the 31st Floor
Anna Hollman's friend
The Sunny Kids
The Fencer
Teacher
The Boys of Wikman
Mrs. Jakovleva
Grisha
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Muhv (voice)
Three Jolly Fellows
Muhv (voice)
Autumn
Liisi Paavel
Georg
Ingeborg
Ohtlik Lend
Ella Juntas
Visit of an Old Lady
Police Chief's Wife
You Are My Only Love
Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
On the Water
Mamma
Those Old Love-letters
Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Ester
Hit Back
In One Hundred Years in May
Alma Oinas
Indrek
Miralda
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Tom's Mother