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Maria Klenskaja

Acting

2 movies available on YTS

Actor info

  • Name :

    Maria Klenskaja

  • Born :

    January 29, 1951 in Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia] (70 years at death)

  • Died :

    January 6, 2022

  • Known for :

    Acting

  • Gender :

    Female

  • Film career :

    31 films (1975–2021)

  • Also known as :

    Maria Klenskaya, Мария Каленская, Marija Klenskaja, Мария Кирилловна Кленская, М. Кленская

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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.

Notable films

  • The Fencer (2015) as Teacher
  • The Gang (1986)
  • Awakening (1990) as City Woman
  • Breakfast on the Grass (1987) as (voice) (uncredited)
  • The Little Comrade (2018) as Grandma Minna Katariina

2 YIFY Movies starring Maria Klenskaja