Shura Baryshnikov’s early life
Shura Baryshnikov was born on 5 March 1981 in the United States. She is an American dancer, choreographer, educator, and actress. Aleksandra Lange Baryshnikov is the daughter of ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and actress Jessica Lange. She has five half-siblings; three on her father’s side, including actress Anna Baryshnikov, and two on her mother’s side. Baryshnikov trained in Classical Ballet as a child and grew up accompanying her mother to different filming locations. In high school, Baryshnikov competed in diving, ran track, rode horses, and played field hockey. She went on to attend Marlboro College in Vermont, where she majored in American studies and also studied theatre and contemporary dance. While at Marlboro, she was a member of the student a cappella group, Five-O’clock Bells.
Shura Baryshnikov’s successful career
Baryshnikov is the head of Movement at the Brown University / Trinity Repertory Company. MFA Program in Acting and Directing, as well as a teaching associate in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University teaching contact improvisation, movement, and dance. She has worked as a choreographer and movement consultant for Trinity Repertory Company, The Wilbur Theatre Group, and Elemental Theatre Collective. As a freelance dancer, she has performed in works by Heidi Henderson, Ali Kenner-Brodsky, and Betsy Miller.
She has also danced with Aerplaye Dance, American Dance Legacy Initiative, Festival Ballet Providence, Bridge Rep of Boston, Elemental Theatre Collective, and Lost Wax Multimedia Dance. Shura Baryshnikov is on the faculty at Festival Ballet Providence School and has taught movement at Earth Dance in Plainfield, Massachusetts, and at the Slave Regina University and MIT. She trained in viewpoints and improvisational techniques with the Si ti Company under Anne Bograt. She is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. Baryshnikov is the co-founder, along with Danielle Davidson, of the Doppelgänger Dance Collective.
Shura Baryshnikov’s mother, Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange is an American actress who has a net worth of $20 million. Jessica Lange is best known for her performances in such films as Tootsie, Frances, Crimes of the Heart, Blue Sky, and Big Fish. She has also had a prolific career on television, most notably in the television movie Grey Gardens and on the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story. In addition to her Oscars, Lange has won Emmy, Tony, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. The actress received Academy Award nominations for both performances, becoming the first person in 40 years to receive two acting nominations in a single year. She ultimately won Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie, as well as the Golden Globe.
In 1984, Lange continued her string of successes by producing and starring in the drama film Country. The same year, she made her television debut in a CBS production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring opposite Tommy Lee Jones. At the end of the decade, she received a fifth Oscar nomination for her performance as a Hungarian lawyer in the crime drama Music Box.
