Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Born: January 27, 1948
in 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 companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with 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. In 1977, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his work as "Yuri Kopeikine" in the film The Turning Point.

Movies for Mikhail Baryshnikov...

The Hip Hop Nutcracker
Title: The Hip Hop Nutcracker
Character: Self
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Features Rev Run as he brings audiences on a hip-hop reimagining of The Nutcracker ballet set in NYC.
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Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Title: Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.
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Studio 54
Title: Studio 54
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.
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Title: Doll & Em
Character: Mikhail
Released: February 18, 2014
Type: TV
Doll & Em is a British comedy series starring real-life friends Emily Mortimer (Em) and Dolly Wells (Doll), filmed in the style of a reality TV show. After a breakup, Doll heads to Hollywood to be with her childhood best friend Em, who's now a successful actress.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Title: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Character: Minister Sorokin (Uncredited)
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
Title: A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary with stars from the original cast.
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Title: Top Model po-russki
Character: Special guest
Released: April 3, 2011
Type: TV
Top Model po-russki is a Russian reality television show and the second Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model, after You are a Supermodel, which aired from 2004 to 2007. The show places a group of young contestants from Russia against each other in a variety of challenges to determine who will win title of the next Russian Top Model along with a lucrative modelling contract, and other prizes in the hope of a successful future in the modeling industry.
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Title: Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2007
Type: Movie
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
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Rehearsing a Dream
Title: Rehearsing a Dream
Character: Self
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas... and from each other. For seven transformative days, the passionate young artists revel in the support, encouragement and attention they have earned.
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Title: Iconoclasts
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 2005
Type: TV
Iconoclasts is a Sundance Channel show. Each episode pairs two "creative visionaries" who discuss their lives, influences, and art, most of whom are longtime friends with the other person featured in the episode. The series premiered on November 17, 2005, and has had six six-episode seasons.
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Title: Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-expanding world is full of differences in abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, family structures, religious faiths, interests and cultures. This documentary introduces your family to children who are not only celebrating how they are unique, but who are also learning from and appreciating the differences in others.
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Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Title: Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 2001
Type: Movie
A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Aleksandr Petrovsky
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Title: The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Character: Cesar
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
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Company Business
Title: Company Business
Character: Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
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Baryshnikov by Tharp with American Ballet Theatre
Title: Baryshnikov by Tharp with American Ballet Theatre
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The twinkle of Frank Sinatra's "Ol' Blue Eyes" melds with the beauty of ballet in this innovative program starring world-renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and members of the American Ballet Theatre. Choreographed by the legendary Twyla Tharp, three performances -- "The Little Ballet," "Sinatra Suite" and "Push Comes to Shove" -- bring Baryshnikov's terpsichorean talents center stage and rekindle Sinatra's magic.
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Dancers
Title: Dancers
Character: Tony
Released: October 9, 1987
Type: Movie
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
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Title: American Masters
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: TV
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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White Nights
Title: White Nights
Character: Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
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That's Dancing!
Title: That's Dancing!
Character: Self - Host
Released: January 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
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Don Quixote (Kitri's Wedding), A Ballet In Three Acts
Title: Don Quixote (Kitri's Wedding), A Ballet In Three Acts
Character: Basilio
Released: March 5, 1984
Type: Movie
The American Ballet Theatre, performing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, June 1983, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, present Cervantes' story about the adventures of the Knight of Rueful Countenance.
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Les Sylphides
Title: Les Sylphides
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.
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Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance
Title: Baryshnikov: The Dancer and the Dance
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A documentary about renowned ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Title: Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Character: Self - Performer
Released: April 21, 1982
Type: Movie
The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.
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Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Title: Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.
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Baryshnikov on Broadway
Title: Baryshnikov on Broadway
Character: Self
Released: April 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Mikhail Baryshnikov and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can, The King and I, Cabaret, Where's Charley, Hello Dolly, Ain't Misbehavin', Guys and Dolls, The Boyfriend, Kiss Me Kate and A Chorus Line.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Don José
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Bob Hope on the Road to China
Title: Bob Hope on the Road to China
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Bob Hope tours China, takes in the culture and meets up with Big Bird, Crystal Gayle, Peaches and Herb, and others.
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Title: The Kennedy Center Honors
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 1978
Type: TV
The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.
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The Nutcracker
Title: The Nutcracker
Character: Toy Nutcracker
Released: December 16, 1977
Type: Movie
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and Gelsey Kirkland, both chowcased at the peak of the their careers, with members of the American Ballet Theatre.
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The Turning Point
Title: The Turning Point
Character: Yuri
Released: November 14, 1977
Type: Movie
As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.
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Giselle
Title: Giselle
Character: Count Albrecht
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The ballet tells the story of a peasant girl named Giselle whose ghost, after her premature death, protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil female spirits called Wilis
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Baryshnikov: Live at Wolf Trap
Title: Baryshnikov: Live at Wolf Trap
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
In the prime of his career, Mikhail Baryshnikov performs solo and also shares the stage with prima ballerinas such as Gelsey Kirkland and Marianna Tcherkassky. Performances include "Don Quixote," "Coppelia," "Le Spectre de la Rose" and "Vestris."
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: TV
In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent has fundamentally advanced the film art; whose accomplishments have been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Title: Today
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1952
Type: TV
Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Today was ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.
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The White Helicopter
Title: The White Helicopter
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The film is based on true events leading up to the historical 2013 resignation of Benedict XVI. After succeeding John Paul II, and serving as Pope for eight years, Joseph Ratzinger shocked the world by becoming the first Pope to voluntarily resign in over 600 years. In light of moral and ethical upheavals in the Catholic Church, and the unique challenges of the 21st century, Ratzinger's cited reason of declining health raises more questions than it answers.