biography
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Fonteyn, Margot
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in full Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, originally Margaret Hookham
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pronunciation:
[fontayn]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1919–91)
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| biography:
| Ballerina, born in Reigate, Surrey, SE England, UK. She joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet (later the Royal Ballet) in 1934, where she made her first solo appearance in The Haunted Ballroom, and became one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th-c, both in classic roles and in creating new roles for Ashton. A new partnership with Nureyev in the 1960s extended her performing career. She married Roberto Emilio Arias (1918–89), then Panamanian ambassador to the Court of St James in London, in 1955, and was created a dame in 1956. |
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