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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).
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...
Moira Shearer, the flame-haired star of The Red Shoes, the most famous ballet film ever made, has died. She had just turned 80. The Scottish dancer and actress was a star of Sadler's Wells and...
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.
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.
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Moira Shearer (born January 17, 1926, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland—died January 31, 2006, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her performance as the suicidal ballerina in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948).
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.
