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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tamara Toumanova has received more than 229,194 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tamara Toumanova is the 2,679th most popular actor (up from 2,730th in 2019), the 1,208th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,192nd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Russian Actor.

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  • 230k

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  • 52.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tamara Toumanova ranks 2,679 out of 13,578. Before her are Robin Shou, Sarah Siddons, James Karen, Vladimir Ivashov, James Marsden, and Sunil Dutt. After her are Moses Gunn, Don Adams, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Troughton, Adrienne Barbeau, and Ray Cooney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Tamara Toumanova ranks 156. Before her are Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Joan Brossa, Maurice Hilleman, Dan O'Herlihy, Mariano Martín, and Merce Cunningham. After her are Hermann Bondi, Jüri Järvet, Igor Gouzenko, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Hans Hermann Groër, and Galina Ustvolskaya. Among people deceased in 1996, Tamara Toumanova ranks 140. Before her are Hernán Siles Zuazo, Margaux Hemingway, Paul Rand, Stanko Todorov, Amata Kabua, and Emile Habibi. After her are Idries Shah, Jack Nance, Henri Nouwen, Joseph Mermans, Zulfiya, and José Manuel Fuente.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tamara Toumanova ranks 1,208 out of 3,761. Before her are Agniya Barto (1906), Yury Glazkov (1939), Alexander Chavchavadze (1786), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Dmitry Lelyushenko (1901), and Vladimir Ivashov (1939). After her are Sergey Mironov (1953), Zinaida Portnova (1926), Nikolai Nebogatov (1849), Olga Sanfirova (1917), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), and Mikhail Kuzmin (1872).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Tamara Toumanova ranks 49. Before her are Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), Vitaly Solomin (1941), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), and Vladimir Ivashov (1939). After her are Vladimir Basov (1923), Valentin Gaft (1935), Vladimir Etush (1922), Andrey Makarevich (1953), Irina Skobtseva (1927), and Yuri Lyubimov (1917).

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Television and Movie Roles

Torn Curtain
Ballerina
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Jul 15o 19666.6 / 10
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Madame Petrova
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.
Oct 29o 19706.8 / 10
Days of Glory
Nina
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
Jun 16o 19445.7 / 10