Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied

Born: June 15, 1977
in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Benjamin Millepied is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States after joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002. He has also created choreography for the company, and choreographed pieces for other major companies. He retired from NYCB in 2011.

He initiated the LA Dance Project, leading it from 2011 to 2014. He was Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet from October 2014 and resigned in 2016. He is known for his work in the movie Black Swan (2010), which he choreographed, and in which he starred as a dancer.

Millepied met actress Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan in early 2009 and reportedly left his live-in girlfriend at the time, Isabella Boylston, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, to begin a relationship with the actress. Millepied and Portman wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on 4 August 2012. The family lived in Paris for a time, after Millepied accepted the position of director of dance with the Paris Opera Ballet. They have two children: a son Aleph (b. 2011) and a daughter Amalia (b. 2017). In January 2014, Millepied said he was in the process of converting to Judaism (his wife's faith). In 2016, the family moved from Paris to Los Angeles.

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Movies for Benjamin Millepied...

Why Can’t We Get Along
Title: Why Can’t We Get Along
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: Movie
rag & bone presents “Why Can’t We Get Along”, a ‘rag & bone Films’ Production starring Kate Mara and Ansel Elgort.
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Reset
Title: Reset
Released: September 7, 2016
Type: Movie
In early 2013, it was announced that choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied, known as the man behind the ballet of Black Swan, would take over as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. Reset finds Millepied on the eve of his first gala with the Opera, designing and refining his inaugural choreography for the esteemed institution. As a film, Reset possesses of the same artistic assuredness as its subject as he blocks out the preliminary steps for his choreography. It explores various concepts of space simultaneously: the digital space, the space of the opera house (each scene opens with a declaration of which studio it’s in) and the space of the stage, the distance from stage right to stage left. It’s a portrait of a watershed moment for one of the ballet's oldest institutions and one of its brightest new stars, both on the cusp of great transition.
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Title: Square
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
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L'envol
Title: L'envol
Character: Man
Released: September 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A woman crosses a mirrored surface in the Moroccan desert to embrace her lover, and the two take flight to the mournful notes of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major in a turning, spinning whirligig of dancing joy.
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Time Doesn't Stand Still
Title: Time Doesn't Stand Still
Character: Lui
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Director Asa Mader collaborated with Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan star and New York City Ballet principal) for this film featuring Millepied and French actress Lea Séydoux with wardrobe by Ralph Lauren.
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Black Swan
Title: Black Swan
Character: David Moreau / The Prince
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.
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Barbie of Swan Lake
Title: Barbie of Swan Lake
Character: New York City Ballet Dancer
Released: September 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Barbie as Odette, the young daughter of a baker, follows a unicorn into the Enchanted Forest and is transformed into a swan by an evil wizard intent on defeating the Fairy Queen.
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Barbie in the Nutcracker
Title: Barbie in the Nutcracker
Character: New York City Ballet Dancer
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: Movie
"Barbie" stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography.