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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).
Moira Shearer. Actress: The Red Shoes. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland. She received her professional training at the Mayfair School and The Nicholas Legat Studio.
Moira Shearer. Actress: The Red Shoes. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland. She received her professional training at the Mayfair School and The Nicholas Legat Studio.
Moira Shearer, a luminous star in the galaxy of British ballerinas who brought the Royal Ballet to international attention and whose dramatic portrayal as the doomed heroine of...
The Red Shoes star Moira Shearer, who has died aged 80, enjoyed three successful careers as a ballerina, an actress and, later as a spirited newspaper columnist. Her broadcaster husband...
Moira Shearer, the flame-haired star of The Red Shoes, the most famous ballet film ever made, has died. She had just turned 80.
Moira Shearer, the flame-haired ballerina-turned-actress who became an international star in "The Red Shoes," a poetic and sensual film that inspired generations of young dancers, died...
Moira Shearer (born January 17, 1926, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland—died January 31, 2006, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her performance as the suicidal ballerina in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948).
Shearer was an important principal dancer in Sadler's Wells Ballet, later the Royal Ballet, creating roles in major works by choreographer Frederick Ashton. But she will be...
Moira Shearer rose to fame in 1948 with her role as the doomed young ballerina in Michael Powell and Emeris Pressburger's film, 'The Red Shoes'. Born in Dunfermline, she made her debut on the stage at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow in 1941 and joined Sadler's Wells the following year.