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Maria Klenskaja
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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 ye…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Maria Klenskaja's Filmography
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On the Water
as Mamma
The Little Comrade
as Grandma Minna Katariina
The Fencer
as Teacher
Georg
as Ingeborg
No Poster
The Great Magician
as Aunt Ursula
Visit of an Old Lady
as Police Chief's Wife
Grisha
No Poster
Cabbage Head
as (voice)
You Are My Only Love
as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
as Tom's Mother
Those Old Love-letters
as Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
The Sunny Kids
Autumn
as Liisi Paavel
Handmaiden
Friends, Comrades
as Madam
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice)
Awakening
as City Woman
Doctor Stockmann
as Katrine Stockmann
Stolen Meeting
as Valentina Saar
Three Jolly Fellows 2
as Muhv (voice)
Breakfast on the Grass
as (voice) (uncredited)
In One Hundred Years in May
as Alma Oinas
The Joys of Midlife
as Pille Loorits
The Gang
Smile at Last
as Ülo's Lover
Three Jolly Fellows
as Muhv (voice)
The Triangle
as Julia (voice) (uncredited)
Murder on the 31st Floor
as Anna Hollman's friend
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
as Ester
Indrek
as Miralda
