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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 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.
As actor
On the Water
The Little Comrade
The Fencer
The Great Magician
Georg
Visit of an Old Lady
Grisha
You Are My Only Love
Cabbage Head
Those Old Love-letters
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
The Sunny Kids
Autumn
Three Jolly Fellows
Friends, Comrades
Handmaiden
Awakening
Doctor Stockmann
Stolen Meeting
The Joys of Midlife
In One Hundred Years in May
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Breakfast on the Grass
The Gang
Smile at Last
Three Jolly Fellows
The Triangle
Murder on the 31st Floor
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Indrek