Maria Klenskaja
Born: 1951-01-29 in Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Died: 2022-01-06
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
- On the Water as Mamma
2018
- The Little Comrade as Grandma Minna Katariina
2015
- The Fencer as Teacher
2009
- Revenge Office as Olga
2007
- Georg as Ingeborg
- The Great Magician as Aunt Ursula
2006
- Visit of an Old Lady as Police Chief's Wife
- Ohtlik Lend as Ella Juntas
1996
1995
- The Boys of Wikman as Mrs. Jakovleva
1993
- Cabbage Head as (voice)
- You Are My Only Love as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
1992
- Lamb in the Down Right Corner as Tom's Mother
- The Sunny Kids
- Those Old Love-letters as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
1990
- Awakening as City Woman
- Autumn as Liisi Paavel
- Handmaiden
- Friends, Comrades as Madam
- Three Jolly Fellows as Muhv (voice)
1989
- Doctor Stockmann as Katrine Stockmann
- Stolen Meeting as Valentina Saar
1987
- The Joys of Midlife as Pille Loorits
- In One Hundred Years in May as Alma Oinas
- Breakfast on the Grass as (voice) (uncredited)
- Three Jolly Fellows 2 as Muhv (voice)
1986
1985
- Smile at Last as Ülo's Lover
1984
- Three Jolly Fellows as Muhv (voice)
1982
- The Triangle as Julia (voice) (uncredited)
1981
- Murder on the 31st Floor as Anna Hollman's friend
1977
1976
- Indrek as Miralda