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Maya Plisetskaya - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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The renowned prima ballerina of world renown, the famous Maya Plisetskaya inherited her maternal artistry - Messererov. Her father, Mikhail Emmanuilovich, was an official, but her mother, Rakhil Mikhailovna, was a famous silent film actress, aunt Sulamith Messerer was a ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater, and uncle Asaf Messerer was a ballet master.
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya is from Moscow, she went to school on the island of Spitsbergen, she was enrolled in the capital's ballet school at the age of seven. In June 1941, just before the invasion of the Nazi troops into the USSR, Plisetskaya made her debut as the best student of the middle classes in the graduation concert. Yesterday's students performed not just anywhere, but on the legendary stage of the Bolshoi Theater branch.
I passed the final exam of the Moscow Choreographic School in 1943 with excellent marks and immediately entered the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. At first she worked in the corps de ballet, despite the fact that she was already a performer of the Dying Swan, which became her calling card. A really great success came at Chopiniana. Maya Plisetskaya danced the entire serious ballet repertoire, including Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, almost all the female parts in Don Quixote. Especially for her, Rodion Shchedrin wrote Carmen Suite, Anna Karenina, Seagull, Lady with a Dog.
Films featuring Maya Plisetskaya are documentaries about ballet, famous artists, which include memories and comments of Plisetskaya, in particular Andris Liepa. It's Difficult to Be a Prince (2012)
Fiction films with Maya Plisetskaya are more diverse: the musical film Khovanshchina (1959), the magical story The Tale of the Little Humpbacked Horse (1961), the film adaptation of Anna Karenina (1967,1974), the biographical Zodiac (1985), as well as films-performances Swan Lake ( 1957), Ballerina (1969), Seagull (1982), Lady with a Dog (1986).
Awarded with numerous orders and medals of the USSR, Russia, Lithuania, Spain, France.
Maya Plisetskaya has brown eyes, naturally dark hair color, fair skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is triangular, the forehead is high, the hair is curly, hard. Maya Plisetskaya does not change her hair color, preferring natural. The actress has a medium, narrow nose and a pointed chin. The growth of the actress is 167 cm, no tattoos.
