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