Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1938-03-17
Day of Death
1993-01-06
Place of Birth
Irkutsk, USSR [now Russia]
Rudolf Nureyev
Biography
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Tatar dancer from the former Soviet Union, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women. He defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to stop him. According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed Description above from the Wikipedia article Rudolf Nureyev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography (39)
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
2021
Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe
2018
Nureyev
2018The Nutcracker
2018
Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams
2016
I Am Divine
2014
Bournonville's La Sylphide and Flower Festival
2013
A Life for Ballet
2012
Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala
2005Nureyev Unzipped
1998
Cinderella
1997
Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness
1997
The World of Jim Henson
1994
Rudolf Nureyev
1991
