Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1951-01-29
Day of Death
2022-01-06
Place of Birth
Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
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 (31)
On the Water
2021
The Little Comrade
2018
The Fencer
2015
Georg
2007The Great Magician
2007
Visit of an Old Lady
2006
Grisha
1996Cabbage Head
1993
You Are My Only Love
1993
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992
Those Old Love-letters
1992
The Sunny Kids
1992
Autumn
1990
Handmaiden
1990
