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Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006), was an internationally renowned Scottish ballet dancer and actress. She was famous for her performances in Powell and Pressburger 's The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1951) and Michael Powell 's Peeping Tom (1960).
Moira Shearer. Actress: The Red Shoes. Moira was born the daughter of Harold Charles King, a civil engineer, in Dunfermline, Scotland. She was educated at Dunfermline High School, Ndola in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and Bearsden Academy, Scotland.
- January 1, 1
- Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
- January 1, 1
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Moira Shearer, the flame-haired star of The Red Shoes, the most famous ballet film ever made, has died. She had just turned 80.
Feb 2, 2006 · Moira Shearer, a luminous star in the galaxy of British ballerinas who brought the Royal Ballet to international attention and whose dramatic portrayal as the doomed heroine of...
Moira Shearer was a Scottish ballerina and actress who starred in The Red Shoes (1948) and other films. She retired from ballet at 27 and married Ludovic Kennedy, a journalist and author.
- January 17, 1926
- January 31, 2006
Scottish ballerina Moira Shearer was recommended by Robert Helpmann, who had been cast in the film as Ivan Boleslawsky, and was also appointed the choreographer of the central ballet sequence; Helpmann had worked with Shearer prior in a production of his ballet Miracle in the Gorbals.
The New York Times reports the death of Moira Shearer, who was a principal dancer in Sadler's Wells Ballet and a film star in The Red Shoes. She also appeared in other ballet and thriller movies, but was more committed to the stage than the screen.
