Moira Shearer (Actor) – Overview, Biography

Name:Moira Shearer
Occupation: Actor
Gender:Female
Height:165 cm (5′ 5”)
Birth Day: January 17,
1926
Death Date:31 January 2006(2006-01-31) (aged 80)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Age: Aged 80
Birth Place:  Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland,
United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign:Aquarius

Moira Shearer

Moira Shearer was born on January 17, 1926 in  Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom (80 years old). Moira Shearer is an Actor, zodiac sign: Aquarius. Nationality: United Kingdom. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

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Family Members

#NameRelationshipNet WorthSalaryAgeOccupation
#1Rachel Kennedy Children N/A N/A N/A
#2Alisa Kennedy Children N/A N/A N/A
#3Fiona Kennedy Children N/A N/A N/A
#4Alastair Kennedy Children N/A N/A N/A
#5Ludovic Kennedy Spouse N/A N/A N/A

Does Moira Shearer Dead or Alive?

As per our current Database, Moira Shearer died on 31 January 2006(2006-01-31) (aged 80)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
165 cm (5′ 5”) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Biography

Biography Timeline

1931

She was born Moira Shearer King at Morton Lodge in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the only child of civil engineer Harold Charles King and Margaret Crawford Reid, née Shearer. In 1931 her family moved to Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, where her father worked as a civil engineer and where she received her first dancing training under a former pupil of Enrico Cecchetti. She returned to Britain in 1936 and trained with Flora Fairbairn in London for a few months before she was accepted as a pupil by the Russian teacher Nicholas Legat. At his studio she met Mona Inglesby who gave Shearer a part in her new ballet Endymion, presented at an all star matinee at the Cambridge Theatre in 1938. After three years with Legat, she joined the Sadler’s Wells Ballet School. After the outbreak of World War II, her parents took her to live in Scotland. She joined Mona Inglesby’s International Ballet for its 1941 provincial tour and West End season before moving on to Sadler’s Wells in 1942.

1950

In 1950, Moira Shearer married journalist and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy. They were married in the Chapel Royal in London’s Hampton Court Palace. She and Kennedy had a son, Alastair, and three daughters, Ailsa, Rachel, and Fiona. Shearer died at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England at the age of 80.

1953

Shearer retired from ballet in 1953, but she continued to act, appearing as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 1954 Edinburgh Festival. She worked again for Powell on The Tales of Hoffmann and on the controversial film Peeping Tom (1960), which damaged Powell’s own career.

1972

In 1972, she was chosen by the BBC to present the Eurovision Song Contest when it was staged at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. She also wrote for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and gave talks on ballet worldwide.

1987

The choreographer Gillian Lynne persuaded her to return to ballet in 1987 to play L. S. Lowry’s mother in A Simple Man for the BBC.

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