Maria Klenskaja
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 29, 1951
- Died
- January 6, 2022
- Birthplace
- Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
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
On the Water 2021
as Mamma
The Little Comrade 2018
as Grandma Minna Katariina
The Fencer 2015
as Teacher
Georg 2007
as Ingeborg
- The Great Magician
The Great Magician 2007
as Aunt Ursula
Visit of an Old Lady 2006
as Police Chief's Wife
Grisha 1996
Actor
- Cabbage Head
Cabbage Head 1993
as (voice)
You Are My Only Love 1993
as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Lamb in the Down Right Corner 1992
as Tom's Mother
Those Old Love-letters 1992
as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
The Sunny Kids 1992
Actor
Autumn 1990
as Liisi Paavel
Handmaiden 1990
Actor
Friends, Comrades 1990
as Madam
Three Jolly Fellows 1990
as Muhv (voice)
Awakening 1990
as City Woman
Doctor Stockmann 1989
as Katrine Stockmann
Stolen Meeting 1989
as Valentina Saar
Three Jolly Fellows 2 1987
as Muhv (voice)
Breakfast on the Grass 1987
as (voice) (uncredited)
In One Hundred Years in May 1987
as Alma Oinas
The Joys of Midlife 1987
as Pille Loorits
The Gang 1986
Actor
Smile at Last 1985
as Ülo's Lover
Three Jolly Fellows 1984
as Muhv (voice)
Vinski of the Town 1983
as Pillow Club Miss
The Triangle 1982
as Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Murder on the 31st Floor 1981
as Anna Hollman's friend
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death 1977
as Ester
Indrek 1976
as Miralda
Hit Back 1975
Actor
Credits from TMDB.