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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
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Mikhail Baryshnikov is a male actor, choreographer, and ballet dancer born in Riga, Latvia, in 1948. He holds citizenship in the Soviet Union, the United States, and Latvia. Baryshnikov began his work period in 1968 and was educated at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. He has been employed by the Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre, The National Ballet of Canada, and American Ballet Theatre. He speaks Russian, English, and Latvian.
His notable awards include the Emmy Award, Kennedy Center Honors, National Medal of Arts, and Merited Artist of the RSFSR. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Baryshnikov has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He is the unmarried partner of Jessica Lange and the father of Anna Baryshnikov.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1948
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Reinventing dance in the 1960s
- Merce My Way
- Miss O
- Baryshnikov in color
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Film & TV
Acting · Riga, Latvia
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (born January 27, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many…
Known for
- The White Helicopter — Pope Benedict XVI2024
- 猟銃2023
- The Hip Hop Nutcracker — Self - Cameo2022
- Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story — Self2021
- Studio 54 — Self (archive footage)2018
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Minister Sorokin (Uncredited)2014
- Doll & Em — Mikhail2014
- A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy — Self2011
- Top Model po-russki — Special guest2011
- Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens — Self2007
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Russia
Discography
- Татарская полька2021
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 110
- Total plays
- 989
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mikhail+Baryshnikov">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,579x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,224x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “You ask me what's happened in my life, why and how I did this and that. And I think and tell, but it's never true story, because everything is so much more complicated, and also I can't even remember how things happened. Whole process is boring. Also false, but mostly boring.”
- “The minute plane set down, the minute I stepped again on Latvian ground, I realized this was never my home. My heart didn't even skip one beat.”
- “You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB... Horrifying.”
- “I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. Then you arrive in the States and it is $150 to go to an opera. Ridiculous. We have so much young talent on the streets, but because everything is commercial they finally drift away from their dream of their life.”
- “The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mikhail
- Family name
- Baryshnikov
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Latvia
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Occupation
- performing artist
- Educated at
- Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
- Languages spoken
- Latvian
- Image
- Mikhail Baryshnikov.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- date of birth
- 1948-01-27
- unmarried partner
- Jessica Lange
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- name in native language
- Mihails Barišņikovs
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P12674
- Ciółkowo Małe
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Encyclopedic overview
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (born January 27, 1948) is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted dance director.
Born into a Russian family in Riga, Baryshnikov had a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad before defecting to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in Western dance. After dancing with the American Ballet Theatre, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer for one season to learn about George Balanchine's neoclassical Russian style of movement. He then returned to the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director. Baryshnikov has spearheaded many of his own artistic projects and has been associated in particular with promoting modern dance, premiering dozens of new works, including many of his own. His success as a dramatic actor on stage, cinema, and television, has helped him become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet dancer. After his 1974 defection, Baryshnikov never returned to the USSR. Since 1986, he has been a naturalized citizen of the United States. After Latvia declared independence on 4 May 1990, he often returned there. In 2017, the Republic of Latvia granted Baryshnikov citizenship for extraordinary merit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mikhail Baryshnikov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.