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Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pembleton Crittle Wiki Biography
Darcey Andrea Bussell CBE (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle on 27 April 1969) is a retired English ballerina. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, she started her professional ballet career at Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, but after only one year she moved to the Royal Ballet, where she became a principal dancer at just 20 years old in 1989. Bussell is widely acclaimed as one of the great British ballerinas. She remained with the Royal Ballet for her whole career, but also performed as a guest artist with many leading ballet companies around the world including NYCB, the Kirov and the Australian Ballet. She retired from ballet in 2007, Bussell remains very committed to the dance world.In 2012 she became the President of the Royal Academy of Dance. She is the Patron of the Sydney Dance Company, the Du Boisson Foundation and is the President of the Birmingham Royal Ballet's fund raising appeal. She is a patron of the International Dance Teachers Association, Cecchetti UK, Cecchetti Australia, Dance Teachers' Benevolent Fund UK and the New English Ballet Theatre. She is an ambassador for the giving programme of the New Zealand School of Dance and is on the board of the Margot Fonteyn Foundation. In 2012 Bussell joined the judging panel of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. She is a patron of the medical charities Sight for All, Borne and the Henry Spink Foundation. She is a Gold Medal recipient from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance
Movies
Gala Tribute to Tchaikovsky, The Prince of the Pagodas, Winter Dreams, Great Pas de Deux, Mayerling
TV Shows
Strictly Come Dancing
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Fact
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She has retired from dancing. [June 2007]
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Appearing as a guest judge on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing (2004). [September 2009]
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Released the concert of her operatic ballet show, "Viva la Diva" on DVD, which she starred in alongside opera singer Katherine Jenkins. [November 2008]
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a daughter Zoe Sophia Forbes on Febraury 10, 2004. Child's father is her husband, Angus Forbes.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 32, a daughter Phoebe Olivia Forbes on June 3, 2001. Child's father is her husband, Angus Forbes.
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She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1995 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to ballet.
She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to dance.
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Tested for the title role in Sabrina (1995), which was eventually given to Julia Ormond.
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She joined the Royal Ballet in 1988 as a Soloist aged 19, becoming a first Soloist in September 1989 and, just three months later, on the first night of Kenneth MacMillan's "The Prince of the Pagodas", was promoted to the rank of Principal.
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Her extensive range of ballets include: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Apollo, La Bayadère, Cinderella, Serenade, Manon, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet.
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She flew on the supersonic plane, Concorde's, last ever commercial flight to London.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Bucket o' French & Saunders
2007
TV Series
Sylvia
2007
TV Movie
Sylvia
The Vicar of Dibley
1998
TV Series
Darcey Bussell
True Blue
1996
Annabel
La Bayadère - The Temple Dancer
1991
TV Movie
Gamzatti
The Prince of the Pagodas
1990
TV Movie
Princess Rose
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Viva la Diva: Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins
2008
Video performer: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"