# Helle Kuningas

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**Helle Kuningas** (since 1978 **Helle Ralja**; 10 June 1949 – 10 October 2014) was an [Estonian](/source/Estonia) actress.[1]

Kuningas was born in [Pärnu](/source/P%C3%A4rnu) to a family of journalists. Her uncle was an Estonian literary scholar, literary and theatre critic, cultural historian and translator Oskar Kuningas and her first cousin were chess player [Merike Rõtova](/source/Merike_R%C3%B5tova) and writer [Astrid Reinla](/source/Astrid_Reinla). She graduated from [Sindi](/source/Sindi,_Estonia) Secondary School in 1968. From 1970 until 1972, she studied at [Tallinn State Conservatory](/source/Estonian_Academy_of_Music_and_Theatre) Stage Art Department. 1968–1970 and 1972–2010 she worked at [Endla Theatre](/source/Endla_Theatre). Besides stage roles she acted also in films.[1]

In 1978, she wed actor Eduard Ralja. The marriage produced a daughter.[1] She died in 2014 in Pärnu.

## Filmography

- *[Ideaalmaastik](/source/Ideaalmaastik)* (1980)
- *Jõulud Vigalas* (1980)
- *[Naerata ometi](/source/Naerata_ometi)* (1985)
- *[Georg](/source/Georg_(film))* (2007)
- *[Eestlanna Pariisis](/source/Eestlanna_Pariisis)* (2012)
- *[Vehkleja](/source/The_Fencer)* (2015)

## References

1. ["Kuningas, Helle - Eesti Entsüklopeedia"](http://entsyklopeedia.ee/artikkel/kuningas_helle1). *entsyklopeedia.ee*. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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