Maria Klenskaja
Birthday: 1951-01-29 | Place of Birth: Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Mama
as Grandma Minna Katariina
as Ella Juntas
as (voice)
as Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
as Tom's Mother
as City Woman
as Muhv (voice)
as Valentina Saar
as (voice) (uncredited)
as Alma Oinas
as Muhv (voice)
as Pille Loorits
as Muhv (voice)
as Julia (voice) (uncredited)
as Miralda
