Rudolf Nureyev

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-03-17 (55 years old)

Deathday

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​

Acting

2021

Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Be Water

as Self (archive footage)

1977

Valentino

as Rudolph Valentino

1983

Exposed

as Daniel Jelline

1989

The Margot Fonteyn Story

as Rudolf Nureyev

1966

1976

Petrushka

as Petrouchka

1972

I Am a Dancer

as Himself (James / Dancer / Armand / The Prince)

1972

The Sleeping Beauty

as Prince Florimund

1966

Swan Lake

as Prince Siegfried

1997

Cinderella

as Film Producer

1973

Don Quixote

as Basilio

1969

1968

The Nutcracker

as Herr Drosselmeyer/The Prince

1998

Nureyev Unzipped

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Nureyev

as Self, Archive Footage

1994

The World of Jim Henson

as Self (archive footage)

2004

The Sleeping Beauty

as Prince Florimund

1963

Swan Lake

as Prince Siegfried

Production

1973

Don Quixote

as Director

1982

Swan Lake

as Choreographer

1966

Swan Lake

as Choreographer

1973

Don Quixote

as Choreographer

2010

La Bayadère

as Choreographer

2012

La Bayadère

as Choreographer

1997

Cinderella

as Director

2013

La Belle au bois dormant

as Choreographer

2013

2009

Nureyev - Raymonda

as Choreographer

2012

Don Quichotte - Nureyev

as Choreographer

2008

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

as Choreographer

2016

Swan Lake

as Choreographer

1968

The Nutcracker

as Producer

1968

The Nutcracker

as Choreographer

2015

Don Quixote

as Choreographer

2004

2004

The Sleeping Beauty

as Choreographer

1989

The Nutcracker

as Choreographer

1989

The Nutcracker

as Director

1989

The Nutcracker

as Art Direction

2018

Cinderella

as Choreographer

1963

Swan Lake

as Choreographer

2024

2024

Don Quixote

as Choreographer

1979

Le Beau Mec

as Choreographer

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