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.
Acting
Movie
The Fencer
as Teacher
2015
Movie
You Are My Only Love
as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
1993
Movie
Breakfast on the Grass
as (voice) (uncredited)
1987
Movie
The Little Comrade
as Grandma Minna Katariina
2018
Movie
Smile at Last
as Ülo's Lover
1985
Movie
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
as Tom's Mother
1992
Movie
The Triangle
as Julia (voice) (uncredited)
1982
Movie
Autumn
as Liisi Paavel
1990
Movie
Georg
as Ingeborg
2007
Movie
Friends, Comrades
as Madam
1990
Movie
Stolen Meeting
as Valentina Saar
1989
Movie
Those Old Love-letters
as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
1992
Movie
The Joys of Midlife
as Pille Loorits
1987
Movie
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice)
1984
Movie
Awakening
as City Woman
1990
Movie
Cabbage Head
as (voice)
1993
Movie
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
as Ester
1977
Movie
The Gang
1986
Movie
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice)
1990
Movie
Doctor Stockmann
as Katrine Stockmann
1989
Movie
On the Water
as Mamma
2021
Movie
The Great Magician
as Aunt Ursula
2007
Movie
Three Jolly Fellows 2
as Muhv (voice)
1987
Movie
Handmaiden
1990