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Yo-Yo Ma

Highest Rated: 85% The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble (2015)

Lowest Rated: 60% How to Grow a Band (2011)

Birthday: Oct 7, 1955

Birthplace: Paris, France

Yo-Yo Ma worked in a variety of genres and built up a diverse and reputable career. He appeared in a number of television specials, including "Liberty Weekend" (1985-86), "The Night of Music: A Global Celebration" (1986-87) and "Gian Carlo Menotti: The Musical Magician" (1986-87). He also appeared in "Ozawa" (1986-87). He also took on a few movie roles at the time, appearing in the drama "Heart of the Garden" (1985) with Morgen Leigh. Yo-Yo Ma won an Outstanding Individual Achievement - Classical Music/Dance Programming Primetime Emmy Award for "Tchaikovsky 150th Birthday Gala From Leningrad" in 1991. In the nineties, Yo-Yo Ma devoted his time to various credits, such as "Before Sunrise" with Ethan Hawke (1995), "Sarabande" (1997), "Six Gestures" (1997) and "The Tango Lesson" (1997) starring Sally Potter. In the early 2000s, Yo-Yo Ma lent his talents to projects like "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" (2003), "Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Orchestra" with Peter Oundjian (2005), "Knowledge is the Beginning" (2005), "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005) starring Zhang Ziyi and "Blindsight" (2008). Yo-Yo Ma last provided music for the Domhnall Gleeson thriller "Ex Machina" (2015).

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Highest rated movies

85% 85% The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble Watchlist
60% 72% How to Grow a Band
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Black Lights, White Shadows
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Facing the Wind Executive Producer - 2024
85% 85% The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble Self $1.2M 2015
60% 72% How to Grow a Band Unknown (Character) $16.4K 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Lights, White Shadows Original Music - 1989

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Firing Line With Margaret Hoover Music Performer,
Guest
2021-2022
No Score Yet 48% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Music Performer,
Guest
2015 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desus & Mero Guest 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beyond the CANVAS Guest 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Performances Music Performer 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poetry in America Guest 2018
No Score Yet 81% Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Unknown (Guest Voice) 2016
85% 76% The Simpsons Himself (Guest Voice) 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet New Tanglewood Tales: Backstage With Rising Artists Guest 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Live From Lincoln Center Music Performer 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Colbert Report Guest 2008 2011
81% 95% The West Wing Himself (Guest Star) 2000
95% 95% Frasier Tom (Guest Voice) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sesame Street Music Performer,
Guest
1994 1998