Acting

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Woman

29 Jan 1951

Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Maria Klenskaja

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 had also had a successful film career and has 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.

The Fencer

13 March 2015

You Are My Only Love

1 February 1993

Breakfast on the Grass

1 August 1987

The Little Comrade

23 March 2018

Games for Teenagers

28 November 1985

Lamb in the Down Right Corner

18 December 1992

Autumn

20 December 1990

The Triangle

2 March 1982

Georg

5 October 2007

Those Old Love Letters

6 June 1992