Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Tatar dancer from the former Soviet Union, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women. He defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to stop him. According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed Description above from the Wikipedia article Rudolf Nureyev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Filmography

• 2025Paris Opera Ballet: The Nutcracker — Director
• 2025Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty — Director
• 2024Don Quixote — Choreographer
• 2024Swan Lake Filmed for IMAX — Choreographer
• 2022Lo Schiaccianoci al Teatro alla Scala — Choreographer
• 2019Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet) — Choreographer
• 2019Le Lac des Cygnes [Opéra National de Paris] — Choreographer
• 2018Cinderella — Choreographer
• 2018Nureyev — Self, Archive Footage
• 2018The 350th Anniversary Inaugural Gala — Choreographer
• 2018The Nutcracker
• 2016Swan Lake — Choreographer
• 2015Don Quixote — Choreographer
• 2015English National Ballet's Romeo and Juliet — Choreographer
• 2015Nureyev & Friends: A Gala Tribute — Choreographer
• 2013Bournonville's La Sylphide and Flower Festival — Paolo, a young man
• 2013La Belle au bois dormant — Choreographer, Conductor
• 2012Don Quichotte - Nureyev — Choreographer
• 2012La Bayadère — Choreographer
• 2010La Bayadère — Choreographer
• 2009Nureyev - Raymonda — Choreographer
• 2005Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake — Stage Director, Choreographer
• 2005Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala
• 2000The Sleeping Beauty — Choreographer
• 1997Cinderella — Film Producer, Director
• 1995Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet — Choreographer
• Love at First Sight — Igor
• 1990Poema Del Amor Y Del Mar
• 1989The Margot Fonteyn Story — Rudolf Nureyev
• 1989The Nutcracker — Choreographer, Director, Art Direction
• 1985That's Dancing!
• 1983Exposed — Daniel Jelline
• 1983Raymonda — Jean de Brienne, Choreographer
• 1982Marco Spada — Marco Spada
• 1982Swan Lake — Choreographer
• 1982Venezia, carnevale, un amore
• 1981The Afternoon of a Faun — Faun
• 1980Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet: Tribute to Nijinsky — Himself/Petrushka/La Spectre de la Rose/Le Faune
• 1980Romeo and Juliet — Romeo, Choreographer, Director
• 1979Giselle — Albrecht, Director
• 1979Le Beau Mec — Choreographer
• The South Bank Show
• 1977The Royal Variety Performance 1977
• 1977Valentino — Rudolph Valentino
• 1976Petrushka — Petrouchka
• 1973Don Quixote — Basilio, Director, Choreographer
• 1972The Sleeping Beauty — Prince Florimund, Producer, Stage Director, Choreographer
• 1972The Special London Bridge Special — Ballet Dancer
• 1968The Nutcracker — Herr Drosselmeyer/The Prince, Producer, Choreographer
• 1966Romeo and Juliet — Romeo
• 1966Swan Lake — Prince Siegfried, Choreographer
• 1963Swan Lake — Prince Siegfried, Choreographer
• 1958When the Spirit Soars in Flight
• Afternoon of a Faun — Faun
• Don Quixote — Choreographer
• The Tempest — Prospero, Choreographer

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2021Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe — self
• 2016Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams — Himself (Archive Footage)
• 2014I Am Divine — Self (archive)
• 2012A Life for Ballet — Self
• 2002Fonteyn and Nureyev: The Perfect Partnership — Himself (archive footage)
• 1998Nureyev Unzipped — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness — Self
• 1994The World of Jim Henson — Self (archive footage)
• 1991Rudolf Nureyev — Himself
• The Dame Edna Experience — Self
• Wedden, dat..? — Self
• 1980Julie Andrews' Invitation to the Dance with Rudolf Nureyev — Himself
• Please Turn the Page — Self
• The Muppet Show — Self - Special Guest Star
• 1974Nureyev — Self
• 1972A Dancer's Life — Himself
• 1972I Am a Dancer — Himself (James / Dancer / Armand / The Prince)
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• 1971Singer Presents Burt Bacharach — Himself
• 1969Political Portraits — Himself
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Omnibus — Self (archive footage)
• 1965The Day of the Oath — Self
• Lieder, Arien und Geschichten — Self
• The Hollywood Palace — Self - Ballet Dancer
• 1963An Evening With The Royal Ballet — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self