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Tamara Toumanova

1919 - 1996

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Tamara Toumanova (Georgian: თამარა თუმანოვა; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Russian-born Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the age of 10 at the children's ballet of the Paris Opera. She became known internationally as one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo after being discovered by her fellow émigré, balletmaster and choreographer George Balanchine. She was featured in numerous ballets in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tamara Toumanova is the 2,355th most popular actor (up from 2,679th in 2019), the 983rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,208th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tamara Toumanova ranks 2,355 out of 13,578Before her are Dudley Moore, Rob Lowe, Marilyn Chambers, Melissa Gilbert, Bruno S., and Joanna Cassidy. After her are Rodrigo Santoro, Mathieu Amalric, Dyan Cannon, Henry Irving, Jean Hersholt, and Abdellatif Kechiche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Tamara Toumanova ranks 140Before her are Maurice Hilleman, Anatoly Dobrynin, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Åke Seyffarth, Félix Gaillard, and Galina Ustvolskaya. After her are Beate Uhse-Rotermund, James H. Wilkinson, Briek Schotte, Paul de Man, Lisa Della Casa, and Anne Buydens. Among people deceased in 1996, Tamara Toumanova ranks 122Before her are Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Hernán Siles Zuazo, José Donoso, Idries Shah, Jo Van Fleet, and Edison Denisov. After her are Tito Okello, Jerry Siegel, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Gottfried von Einem, Jack Churchill, and Annabella.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tamara Toumanova ranks 983 out of 3,761Before her are Angelina Beloff (1879), Elena Obraztsova (1939), Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), and Edison Denisov (1929). After her are Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Pavel Durov (1984), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Mikhail Boyarsky (1949), and Buvaisar Saitiev (1975).

Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Tamara Toumanova ranks 30Before her are Mikhail Ulyanov (1927), Vasily Livanov (1935), Andrey Myagkov (1938), Vasily Lanovoy (1934), Oleg Yefremov (1927), and Leonid Kuravlyov (1936). After her are Mikhail Boyarsky (1949), Yuliya Solntseva (1901), Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Alexander Kaidanovsky (1946), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), and Savely Kramarov (1934).