Maria Klenskaja
Born January 29, 1951 (Age: 75)
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Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
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.
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.
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Filmography
Visit of an Old Lady
2006
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as Police Chief's Wife
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Age: 55
Grisha
1996
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as
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Age: 45
No Image
Cabbage Head
1993
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as (voice)
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Age: 42
You Are My Only Love
1993
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as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
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Age: 42
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992
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as Tom's Mother
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Age: 41
Those Old Love-letters
1992
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as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
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Age: 41
The Sunny Kids
1992
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as
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Age: 41
Autumn
1990
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as Liisi Paavel
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Age: 39
Handmaiden
1990
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as
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Age: 39
Friends, Comrades
1990
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as Madam
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Age: 39
Three Jolly Fellows
1990
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as Muhv (voice)
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Age: 39
Awakening
1990
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as City Woman
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Age: 39
Doctor Stockmann
1989
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as Katrine Stockmann
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Age: 38
Stolen Meeting
1989
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as Valentina Saar
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Age: 38
Three Jolly Fellows 2
1987
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as Muhv (voice)
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Age: 36
Breakfast on the Grass
1987
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as (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 36
In One Hundred Years in May
1987
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as Alma Oinas
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Age: 36
The Joys of Midlife
1987
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as Pille Loorits
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Age: 36
Smile at Last
1985
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as Ülo's Lover
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Age: 34
Murder on the 31st Floor
1981
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as Anna Hollman's friend
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Age: 30
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
1977
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as Ester
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Age: 26
Hit Back
1975
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as
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Age: 24