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- Birth nameMaya Mikhaylovna Plisetskaya
- Maya Plisetskaya is a Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, film actress.
The representative of the theater dynasty Messerer-Plisetskikh, prima ballerina of the Bolshoy Theater of the USSR in 1948-1990. People's Artist of the USSR (1959). Full holder of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland. She is considered one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseRodion Shchedrin(October 2, 1958 - May 2, 2015) (her death)
- World famous Soviet ballerina.
- After retiring from dancing, she became a choreographer and gave master classes around the world.
- She joined the Bolshoi in 1943, and became prima ballerina in 1960.
- Among her acclaimed roles were Odette/Odile in "Swan Lake", Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty" and Carmen in "Carmen Suite".
- Her mother was a silent-film actress and her father an engineer who was posted to Spitzbergen, Norway. She spent part of her childhood there. Her father was arrested in 1937 and shot in 1938, a victim of Stalin's purges. Her mother was sent to a labor cap with her infant son, then exiled to Kazakhstan.
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