Maya Plisetskaya
Known for: Acting
Maya Plisetskaya was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960 she became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.
Filmography
Series
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Film
Anna Karenina
princess Betsy
1967
Film
Tchaikovsky
Desire
1970
Stars of the Russian Ballet
Zarema (segment "Fountains of Bakhchisarai")
1954
Film
New Year's Abduction
Plisetskaya
1970
Film
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
1975
Film
Khovanshchina
1959
Film
Fantasia
1976
Film
Carmen Suite
Carmen
1978
Film
Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
1978
Film
Swan Lake
Odette / Odile
1957
Film
New Year's Calendar
1966
Film
Yevgeny Svetlanov. A Memory...
2008
World's Young Ballet
1969
Film
M.K.C. Zodiakas
Муза
1985
Film
Mariinsky Theatre
Self
2008
Film
The Little Humpbacked Horse
Queen Maiden
1962
Film
Maya Plisetskaya
Self
1964
Film
Maya Plisetskaya – (Un)known
Self
1987
The Little Humpbacked Horse
Film
Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
2006
Film
Ballerina
Herself
1970
Film
Lady with a Lapdog
1986