Maya Plisetskaya

Birthday: November 20th, 1925 Date of Death: May 2nd, 2015 Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

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.