Michael Angelis

He has been the longtime companion of actress Helen Worth, who he later married. It was a reunion of sorts, since in the 1970s, Baryshnikov had starred in an ABT production of La Sylphide in which Parker had danced a role as a student. He was also one of the stars of the famous 1982 BBC drama serial Boys from the Blackstuff and its comedies such as Luv and The Liver Birds which he was on from seasons 5-9. He played a recurring role in the final season of Sex and the City, opposite Sarah Jessica Parker. Angelis is best known for narrating the British Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends series from 1991 onwards. He starred in the 1985 film White Nights. Michael Angelis is a British actor who was born in Liverpool, England. He received an Oscar nomination for his first film role, in 1977's The Turning Point.

As of 2004, he is actively involved in the establishment of the Baryshnikov Arts Center in a new performing arts complex in New York City. He was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. Baryshnikov was artistic director of the White Oak Dance Project, a touring company he co-founded with Mark Morris. From 1990 to 2002, Mr.

He returned to ABT in 1980 as dancer and artistic director, a position he held for a decade. He then joined the New York City Ballet for fifteen months, working with choreographer George Balanchine. From 1974 to 1979, he was principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), though he also danced with ballet and modern dance companies around the world. During Kirov's tour through Canada in 1974, Baryshnikov disappeared for several days, reappearing in the United States, where he applied for political asylum.

Due to his talent, he joined Leningrad's Kirov Ballet in 1966. He first entered an ballet academy at the age of fifteen. His father was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. Baryshnikov (whose name is sometimes transliterated as Baryshinikov or Barishinikov) was born in Riga, then-capital of the Latvian SSR, of Russian parents.

Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (in Russian Михаил Николаевич Баришников) (born January 28, 1948) is a famous dancer and actor.