Maria Klenskaja
Date of birth: 1951-01-29
Place of birth: Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Maria Klenskaya, Мария Каленская, Marija Klenskaja, Мария Кирилловна Кленская
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.
Movie Credits
Those Old Love-letters
1992-06-06
A film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter and singer of the 1930s and 40s, the
The Great Magician
2007-01-01
You Are My Only Love
1993-02-01
A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem s
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992-12-18
A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The
Autumn
1990-12-20
The main character of the film is Paunvere tailor Jorh Adniel Kiir. Two young seamstresses, Juuli an
Georg
2007-10-05
Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and
The Joys of Midlife
1987-07-06
Five people who have recently reached middle-age are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch
Smile at Last
1985-11-28
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she imm
Three Jolly Fellows
1990-08-31
Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantas
Friends, Comrades
1990-11-16
The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by
The Triangle
1982-03-02
Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard
Visit of an Old Lady
2006-04-06
As a young woman, Claire left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for
Three Jolly Fellows
1984-09-01
“Three Jolly Fellows” tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fant
In One Hundred Years in May
1987-07-24
Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. H
Three Jolly Fellows 2
1987-09-12
The second part of the film based on Eno Raua's children's book of the same name, which tells about
Hit Back
1975-06-18
The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest an
Handmaiden
1990-12-16
The family where Epp serves is preparing to receive important guests on whom the career of the head
The Fencer
2015-03-13
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland,
Indrek
1976-02-02
Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare.
The Little Comrade
2018-03-23
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
1977-06-08
The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communis
Doctor Stockmann
1989-07-10
Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that
Awakening
1990-02-22
It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are w
Stolen Meeting
1989-06-05
A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is im
Breakfast on the Grass
1987-08-01
Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to rep
On the Water
2021-09-10
Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian to
Grisha
1996-11-08
An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through th
The Sunny Kids
1992-02-03
A movie about the life in a small Estonian city in the 1950s. Young people face an instinct for surv
Cabbage Head
1993-09-28
A parody of a classical action film. The sequence of events is launched by a huge cabbage growing on
The Gang
1986-10-20
Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his powe
Murder on the 31st Floor
1981-06-13
Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb