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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Moira Shearer</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg/220px-Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg/330px-Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg/440px-Moira_Shearer_1954.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1078" data-file-height="1332" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Shearer in 1954</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Moira Shearer King</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1926-01-17</span>)</span>17 January 1926<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline" title="Dunfermline">Dunfermline</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fife" title="Fife">Fife</a>, Scotland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">31 January 2006<span style="display:none">(2006-01-31)</span> (aged 80)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Lady Kennedy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1938–1987</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Sir <a href="/wiki/Ludovic_Kennedy" title="Ludovic Kennedy">Ludovic Kennedy</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1950)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy</b> (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006) was a Scottish <a href="/wiki/Ballet_dancer" title="Ballet dancer">ballet dancer</a> and actress. She was famous for her performances in <a href="/wiki/Powell_and_Pressburger" title="Powell and Pressburger">Powell and Pressburger</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(1948_film)" title="The Red Shoes (1948 film)">The Red Shoes</a></i> (1948) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann_(1951_film)" title="The Tales of Hoffmann (1951 film)">The Tales of Hoffman</a></i> (1951) and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Powell" title="Michael Powell">Michael Powell</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Peeping_Tom_(1960_film)" title="Peeping Tom (1960 film)">Peeping Tom</a></i> (1960). </p><p>She has been portrayed by Shannon Davidson in the short film <i>Òran na h-Eala</i> (2022) which explores her life-changing decision to appear in <i>The Red Shoes</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moira_Shearer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was born Moira Shearer King at Morton Lodge in <a href="/wiki/Dunfermline" title="Dunfermline">Dunfermline</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fife" title="Fife">Fife</a>, Scotland, in 1926, the only child of civil engineer Harold Charles King and Margaret Crawford Reid, née Shearer.<sup id="cite_ref-CraineMackrell2010_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CraineMackrell2010-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1931 her family moved to <a href="/wiki/Ndola" title="Ndola">Ndola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Rhodesia" title="Northern Rhodesia">Northern Rhodesia</a>, where her father worked as a civil engineer and where she received her first dancing training under a former pupil of <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Cecchetti" title="Enrico Cecchetti">Enrico Cecchetti</a>, focussed on the Russian dance curriculum.<sup id="cite_ref-Fisher_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fisher-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family returned to Scotland when she was 10. She was educated at <a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_High_School" title="Dunfermline High School">Dunfermline High School</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bearsden_Academy" title="Bearsden Academy">Bearsden Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When she returned to Britain with her parents in 1936, her mother took her to the London studio of the Russian ballet master <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Legat" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Legat">Nicholas Legat</a>. The studio manager, assuming that Shearer was a beginner, referred them to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Flora_Fairbairn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Flora Fairbairn (page does not exist)">Flora Fairbairn</a>, a well-regarded teacher of young dancers starting out. Three months later, by chance, Legat saw Shearer dance in a private recital and reportedly remarked, "This is no beginner," and accepted her as a pupil.<sup id="cite_ref-Fisher_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fisher-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Crowle,_1949_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crowle,_1949-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dance_career">Dance career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moira_Shearer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dance career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At Legat's studio she met the dancer and choreographer <a href="/wiki/Mona_Inglesby" title="Mona Inglesby">Mona Inglesby</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Inglesby_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inglesby-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who gave Shearer a part in her new ballet <i>Endymion</i>, presented at an all star matinee at the Cambridge Theatre in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-H-Taylor_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H-Taylor-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After three years at the Legat studio, she joined the <a href="/wiki/Sadler%27s_Wells_Ballet_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadler's Wells Ballet School">Sadler's Wells Ballet School</a> at 14. After the outbreak of the Second World War, her parents took her to live in Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-Fisher_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fisher-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She joined Mona Inglesby's <a href="/wiki/International_Ballet" title="International Ballet">International Ballet</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for its 1941 provincial tour and West End season before moving on to <a href="/wiki/Sadler%27s_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadler's Wells">Sadler's Wells</a> in 1942. </p><p>Shearer's breakthrough role in her post-war dance career was her Sadler's Wells performance as Princess Aurora, the lead female role in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(ballet)" title="The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)">The Sleeping Beauty</a></i> on 1 March 1946. <a href="/wiki/Margot_Fonteyn" title="Margot Fonteyn">Margot Fonteyn</a> had danced Princess Aurora on the gala opening night, 20 February 1946; <a href="/wiki/Pamela_May" title="Pamela May">Pamela May</a> took the role the following night, and Shearer assumed the role a week later.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Stage,_2/14/1946_-_Fonteyn,_May_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Stage,_2/14/1946_-_Fonteyn,_May-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reviewer in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Manchester Guardian</a></i> praised her "extraordinary elegance and grace ... these are unteachable things, enchanting beyond technique."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other notable performances in this period include Shearer's role in Frederick Ashton's <i><a href="/wiki/Symphonic_Variations_(ballet)" title="Symphonic Variations (ballet)">Symphonic Variations</a></i>, which debuted at Covent Garden in April 1946, with Fonteyn in the lead female role,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her interpretation of Swanhilda, the principal female role in <i><a href="/wiki/Copp%C3%A9lia" title="Coppélia">Coppelia</a></i> in October of that year, which one reviewer praised as "a performance memorable in her own career as well as in the annals of British ballet."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Shearer's career at Sadler's Wells, the prima ballerina of the company was Margot Fonteyn.<sup id="cite_ref-Daneman,_2004_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daneman,_2004-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shearer, seven years younger than Fonteyn, was among a group of talented younger dancers, including Beryl Grey and Violetta Elvin, who entered the company after the Second World War. In her autobiography, Fonteyn recognised their talents, saying of Shearer, "Then came Moira Shearer, with her incredible airy lightness and ease, to be a real threat to my position. Moira was young, fresh, beautiful and different."<sup id="cite_ref-Fonteyn,_1976_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fonteyn,_1976-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For as long as she remained at Sadler's Wells, Shearer and Fonteyn were both colleagues and competitors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_career">Film career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moira_Shearer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Film career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shearer first came to the public's attention as Posy Fossil in the advertisements for the <a href="/wiki/Noel_Streatfeild" title="Noel Streatfeild">Noel Streatfeild</a> book <i><a href="/wiki/Ballet_Shoes_(novel)" title="Ballet Shoes (novel)">Ballet Shoes</a></i> while she was training under Flora Fairbairn, a good friend of Streatfeild. </p><p>She achieved international success with her first film role as Victoria Page in the <a href="/wiki/Powell_and_Pressburger" title="Powell and Pressburger">Powell and Pressburger</a> <a href="/wiki/Ballet" title="Ballet">ballet</a>-themed <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(1948_film)" title="The Red Shoes (1948 film)">The Red Shoes</a></i>, (1948).<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even her hair matched the titular footwear, and the role and film were so powerful that although she went on to star in other films and worked as a dancer for many decades, she is primarily known for playing "Vicky". </p><p>Shearer retired from ballet in 1953, but she continued to act, appearing as Titania in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i> at the 1954 <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh Festival">Edinburgh Festival</a>. She worked again for Powell in the films <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann_(1951_film)" title="The Tales of Hoffmann (1951 film)">The Tales of Hoffmann</a></i> (1951) and <i><a href="/wiki/Peeping_Tom_(1960_film)" title="Peeping Tom (1960 film)">Peeping Tom</a></i> (1960), which was controversial at the time of release and damaged Powell's own career. </p><p>In 1972, she was chosen by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> to present the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1972" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1972">Eurovision Song Contest</a> when it was staged at the <a href="/wiki/Usher_Hall" title="Usher Hall">Usher Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also wrote for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> newspaper and gave talks on ballet worldwide. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Choreographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Choreographer">choreographer</a> <a href="/wiki/Gillian_Lynne" title="Gillian Lynne">Gillian Lynne</a> persuaded her to return to ballet in 1987 to play <a href="/wiki/L._S._Lowry" title="L. S. Lowry">L. S. Lowry</a>'s mother in <i>A Simple Man</i> for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moira_Shearer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1950, Moira Shearer married journalist and broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Ludovic_Kennedy" title="Ludovic Kennedy">Ludovic Kennedy</a>. They were married in the Chapel Royal in London's <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace" title="Hampton Court Palace">Hampton Court Palace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Photoplay_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Photoplay-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She and Kennedy had a son, Alastair, and three daughters, Ailsa, Rachel, and Fiona. When her husband was knighted in 1994 for services to journalism, she could be <a href="/wiki/Forms_of_address_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Forms of address in the United Kingdom">addressed</a> as Lady Kennedy. </p><p>Shearer died at the <a href="/wiki/Radcliffe_Infirmary" title="Radcliffe Infirmary">Radcliffe Infirmary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, England, at the age of 80.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moira_Shearer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Title</th> <th>Role</th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1948</td> <td><i><span data-sort-value="red !"><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(1948_film)" title="The Red Shoes (1948 film)">The Red Shoes</a></span></i></td> <td><span data-sort-value="page !">Victoria Page</span></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1951</td> <td><i><span data-sort-value="tales !"><a href="/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann_(1951_film)" title="The Tales of Hoffmann (1951 film)">The Tales of Hoffmann</a></span></i></td> <td>Stella / Olympia</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1953</td> <td><i><span data-sort-value="story !"><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Three_Loves" title="The Story of Three Loves">The Story of Three Loves</a></span></i></td> <td><span data-sort-value="wood !">Paula Woodward</span></td> <td>segment "The Jealous Lover" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1955</td> <td><i><span data-sort-value="man !"><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Redheads" title="The Man Who Loved Redheads">The Man Who Loved Redheads</a></span></i></td> <td>Sylvia / Daphne / Olga / Colette</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1960</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Peeping_Tom_(1960_film)" title="Peeping Tom (1960 film)">Peeping Tom</a></i></td> <td>Vivian</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Tights" title="Black Tights">Black Tights</a></i></td> <td>Roxane</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1987</td> <td><i><span data-sort-value="simp !">A Simple Man</span></i></td> <td>Mother</td> <td>made for television </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moira_Shearer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Eurovision_Song_Contest_presenters" title="List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters">List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Manchester Guardian. 2 March 1946. p. 4. <q>This role, the ballet's main one, was being danced for the first time in the season, by Moira Shearer. An exciting event, as it proved, the more so for being unheralded.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=A+New+Dancer&rft.pages=4&rft.date=1946-03-02&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMoira+Shearer" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Covent Garden". No. 3396. 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The Stage. 31 October 1946. p. 1. <q>... a performance memorable in her own career as well as in the annals of British ballet.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Covent+Garden&rft.issue=3422&rft.pages=1&rft.date=1946-10-31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMoira+Shearer" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Daneman,_2004-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Daneman,_2004_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaneman2004" class="citation book cs1">Daneman, Meredith (2004). <i>Margot Fonteyn</i>. 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