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Maria Klenskaja
Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, 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…
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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.
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2021
On the Water
Movie Mamma
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2018
The Little Comrade
Movie Grandma Minna Katariina
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2015
The Fencer
Movie Teacher
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2009
Revenge Office
TV show Olga
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2007
Georg
Movie Ingeborg
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2007
The Great Magician
Movie Aunt Ursula
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2006
Ohtlik Lend
TV show Ella Juntas
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2006
Visit of an Old Lady
Movie Police Chief's Wife
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1996
Grisha
Movie
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1995
The Boys of Wikman
TV show Mrs. Jakovleva
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1993
Cabbage Head
Movie (voice)
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1993
You Are My Only Love
Movie Olya (as M. Kalyonskaya)
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1992
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Movie Tom's Mother
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1992
Those Old Love-letters
Movie Mrs. Muna (uncredited)
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1992
The Sunny Kids
Movie
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1990
Autumn
Movie Liisi Paavel
More credits
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1990
Handmaiden
Movie
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1990
Friends, Comrades
Movie Madam
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1990
Three Jolly Fellows
Movie Muhv (voice)
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1990
Awakening
Movie City Woman
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1989
Doctor Stockmann
Movie Katrine Stockmann
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1989
Stolen Meeting
Movie Valentina Saar
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1987
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Movie Muhv (voice)
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1987
Breakfast on the Grass
Movie (voice) (uncredited)
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1987
In One Hundred Years in May
Movie Alma Oinas
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1987
The Joys of Midlife
Movie Pille Loorits
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1986
The Gang
Movie
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1985
Smile at Last
Movie Ülo's Lover
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1984
Three Jolly Fellows
Movie Muhv (voice)
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1982
The Triangle
Movie Julia (voice) (uncredited)
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1981
Murder on the 31st Floor
Movie Anna Hollman's friend
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1977
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Movie Ester
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1976
Indrek
Movie Miralda
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1975
Hit Back
Movie
