Actor

Maria Klenskaja

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Movies: 29Series: 3

TMDB ID: 565278

IMDb ID: nm0459291

Known for: Acting

Born: January 29, 1951

Died: January 6, 2022

Age: 70

Place of birth: Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1975 - 2021

Years active: 47

Average TMDB rating: 6.44

Wikidata: Q12369759

Also known as

Maria Klenskaya • Мария Каленская • Marija Klenskaja • Мария Кирилловна 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.