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
Known For
Self (archive footage)
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
Self (archive footage)
Be Water
Rudolph Valentino
Valentino
Daniel Jelline
Exposed
Rudolf Nureyev
The Margot Fonteyn Story
Romeo
Romeo and Juliet
Petrouchka
Petrushka
Himself (James / Dancer / Armand / The Prince)
I Am a Dancer
Ballet Dancer
The Special London Bridge Special
Self
An Evening With The Royal Ballet
Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala
Self
Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness
Prince Florimund
The Sleeping Beauty
Prince Siegfried
Der Schwanensee
Film Producer
Cinderella
Basilio
Don Quixote
Self
A Life for Ballet
Himself
Political Portraits
Himself
Singer Presents Burt Bacharach
Herr Drosselmeyer/The Prince
The Nutcracker
Self, Archive Footage
Nureyev
Self (archive footage)
Nureyev Unzipped
That's Dancing!
Self (archive footage)
The World of Jim Henson
self
Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe
Prince Florimund
The Sleeping Beauty
Prince Siegfried
Swan Lake
Venezia, carnevale, un amore
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
28
Gender
Male
Birthday
1938-03-17
Place of Birth
Irkutsk, USSR [now Russia]
Also Known As
Rudolph Nureyev