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Born March 22, 1973 (age 53) • Yeovil • England
Awards And Honors Tony Awards
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Agnes de Mille and Yurek Lazowski performing in Three Virgins and a Devil, 1955
Agnes de Mille
American dancer and choreographer
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Dame Ninette de Valois
Irish-born British dancer
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Matthew Bourne
British choreographer and dancer
Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
Tim Rice in 1989 wearing a flat cap, bow tie, and jacket, looking slightly to the side.
Tim Rice
English lyricist
Sir Ian McKellen smiling, wearing a dark wide-brimmed hat and patterned scarf at the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in London.
Ian McKellen
British actor
English actor Nigel Hawthorne in 1986, wearing a gray suit jacket, white shirt, and paisley tie, looking at the camera.
Nigel Hawthorne
British actor
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
Justin Peck
Justin Peck
American choreographer and dancer
Savion Glover
Savion Glover
American dancer
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Moira Shearer
Scottish ballerina and actress
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Sir Kenneth MacMillan
British choreographer
Jacob Epstein in work clothes sculpts a clay bust of actress Anna Neagle, who sits posing in a gown beside the sculpture in his Hyde Park studio.
Dame Anna Neagle
British actress
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Constant Lambert
British composer
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
British actress
Sam Mendes stands smiling in a dark pinstripe suit and white shirt, wearing a red poppy pin, with hands in his pockets in front of a Skyfall backdrop.
Sam Mendes
English director