Maria Klenskaja

Known for ActingBorn 1951-01-29Died 2022-01-06Tartu, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hit Back

Murder on the 31st Floor

The Boys of Wikman

In One Hundred Years in May

The Fencer

The Little Comrade

Grisha

Those Old Love-letters

The Sunny Kids

Three Jolly Fellows

Handmaiden

Lamb in the Down Right Corner

Revenge Office

You Are My Only Love

Cabbage Head

The Gang

Smile at Last

Autumn

Georg

Breakfast on the Grass

Three Jolly Fellows

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

On the Water

Awakening

The Joys of Midlife

Friends, Comrades

The Triangle

Three Jolly Fellows 2

Stolen Meeting

Doctor Stockmann

The Great Magician

Visit of an Old Lady

Ohtlik Lend

Indrek