
Maria Klenskaja
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

On the Water

The Little Comrade

The Fencer

Georg

The Great Magician

Visit of an Old Lady

Grisha

Cabbage Head

You Are My Only Love

Lamb in the Down Right Corner

Those Old Love-letters

The Sunny Kids

Autumn

Handmaiden

Friends, Comrades

Three Jolly Fellows

Awakening

Doctor Stockmann

Stolen Meeting

Three Jolly Fellows 2

Breakfast on the Grass

In One Hundred Years in May

The Joys of Midlife

The Gang

Smile at Last

Three Jolly Fellows

The Triangle

Murder on the 31st Floor

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

Indrek
