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Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006) was a Scottish ballet dancer and actress. She was famous for her performances in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1951) and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960).
[3] [4] When Lunn was a 16-year old ballet student in Washington, D.C., she asked the dancer and teacher Agnes de Mille if a medical intervention could help her reach six feet tall on pointe; de Mille's answer would become a mantra for the rest of Lunn's career. "Kitty," de Mille said, "you have to learn to dance with the body you have."
Leslie Browne (born June 29, 1957) is an American prima ballerina and actress. She was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York City from 1986 until 1993. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , [ 2 ] as well as a Golden Globe Award [ 3 ] at age 20, for portraying a young dancer invited ...
She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began taking ballet . After graduating, she joined the New York City Ballet in 1953 at the age of 15, and was promoted to principal in 1957.
The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. [4] It follows Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer ...
Juliet Anne Prowse (25 September 1936 – 14 September 1996) was a British-American dancer and actress whose four-decade career included stage, television and film. She was born in Bombay (today's Mumbai) then of British India, raised in South Africa, where her family emigrated after World War II. [1]
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As a child, she rose to stardom after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having previously acted only in school plays. Watson made her first major forays beyond the Potter franchise starring in Ballet Shoes (2007), and lent her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008).