Maria Klenskaja

January 29, 1951 — Tartu, 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 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.

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You Are My Only Love

1993

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Breakfast on the Grass

1987

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The Little Comrade

2018

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Lamb in the Down Right Corner

1992

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The Triangle

1982

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Three Jolly Fellows

1984

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Cabbage Head

1993

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Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

1977