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 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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.371 |
Birthday | 1951-01-29 |
Place of Birth | Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia] |
Also Known As | Мария Каленская, Maria Klenskaya, |
1992
Those Old Love Letters
6.4/5
A film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter and singer of the 1930s and 40s, the political changes of his country and his life aft...
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Those Old Love Letters
2007
The Great Magician
3.2/2
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The Great Magician
1993
You Are My Only Love
6.7/21
A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...
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You Are My Only Love
1992
Lamb in the Down Right Corner
6.8/9
A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The adventures begin, when a boss of a bunch of crimi...
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Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1990
Autumn
5.8/9
The main character of the film is Paunvere tailor Jorh Adniel Kiir. Two young seamstresses, Juuli and Maali, arrive in Paunvere. At first, Kiir regard...
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Autumn
2007
Georg
5.3/8
Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and authority for men, his talent was revered by the h...
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Georg
1987
The Joys of Midlife
4.8/4
Five people who have recently reached middle-age are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. The sombe...
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The Joys of Midlife
1981
Гибель 31 отдела
8/1
Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion, howe...
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Гибель 31 отдела
1985
Games for Teenagers
6.1/12
A sensitive girl struggles with first love and bullying in a 1980's Soviet orphanage.
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Games for Teenagers
1990
Three Jolly Fellows
7/3
Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, t...
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Three Jolly Fellows
1990
Friends, Comrades
5.6/5
The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and a...
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Friends, Comrades
1982
The Triangle
5.1/9
Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts...
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The Triangle
2006
Visit of an Old Lady
0/0
As a young woman, Claire left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly ba...
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Visit of an Old Lady
1984
Three Jolly Fellows
5.9/4
“Three Jolly Fellows” tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard,...
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Three Jolly Fellows
1987
In One Hundred Years in May
0/0
Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the...
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In One Hundred Years in May
1987
Three Jolly Fellows 2
5/1
The second part of the film based on Eno Raua's children's book of the same name, which tells about the activities of three jolly fellows - Sammalhabe...
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Three Jolly Fellows 2
1975
Hit Back
0/0
The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the spor...
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Hit Back
1990
Handmaiden
0/0
The family where Epp serves is preparing to receive important guests on whom the career of the head of the family depends. Everyone is busy preparing...
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Handmaiden
2015
The Fencer
7/72
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at...
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The Fencer
1976
Indrek
0/0
Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare.
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Indrek
2018
The Little Comrade
6.857/14
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good k...
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The Little Comrade
1977
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
5.8/4
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Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
1989
Doctor Stockmann
2/2
Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that the facility is threatened by an infection caused...
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Doctor Stockmann
1990
Awakening
4.5/4
It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families...
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Awakening
1989
Stolen Meeting
3.5/4
A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.
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Stolen Meeting
1987
Breakfast on the Grass
6.2/20
Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that p...
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Breakfast on the Grass
2020
On the Water
4/2
Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only fri...
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On the Water
1996
Grisha
7/1
An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through the lens of old friends and colleagues.
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Grisha
1992
The Sunny Kids
0/0
A movie about the life in a small Estonian city in the 1950s. Young people face an instinct for survival that shatters ideals but can also destroy liv...
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