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Moira Shearer

Moira Shearer

Highest Rated: 99% The Red Shoes (1948)

Lowest Rated: 85% The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Birthday: Jan 17, 1926

Birthplace: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK

Delicately pretty red-haired ballerina who made a stunning film debut in the classic dance drama, "The Red Shoes" (1948) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Shearer appeared in a number of roles (not all of which involved dancing) through the 1950s, notably in Powell and Pressburger's beautifully baroque "Tales of Hoffman" (1951); the intriguing "The Man Who Loved Redheads" (1954), in which she played four roles; and Powell's unsettling landmark solo effort, "Peeping Tom" (1960). She retired in the early 1960s following her marriage to writer Ludovic Kennedy but returned to the London stage with a 1974 appearance in "Man and Wife."

Highest rated movies

99% 91% The Red Shoes
95% 85% Peeping Tom
85% 70% The Tales of Hoffmann
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Moira Shearer

Moira Shearer THE RED SHOES, from left: Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, 1948 THE RED SHOES, Moira Shearer, 1948. THE TALES OF HOFFMANN, Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, 1951 THE TALES OF HOFFMANN, Moira Shearer, 1951 THE TALES OF HOFFMANN, Edmund Audran, Moira Shearer, 1951 THE RED SHOES, from left: Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, 1948 BLACK TIGHTS, (aka 1-2-3-4 OU LES COLLANTS NOIRS), Moira Shearer, 1960 BLACK TIGHTS, (aka 1-2-3-4 OU LES COLLANTS NOIRS), Moira Shearer, 1960 BLACK TIGHTS, (aka 1-2-3-4 OU LES COLLANTS NOIRS), Moira Shearer, 1960 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 71% Black Tights Roxane (Character) - 1960
95% 85% Peeping Tom Vivian (Character) $23.0K 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man Who Loved Redheads Sylvia/Daphne/Olga/Colette (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 57% The Story of Three Loves Paula Woodward (Character) - 1953
85% 70% The Tales of Hoffmann Stella / Olympia (Character) $90.4K 1951
99% 91% The Red Shoes Victoria Page (Character) - 1948