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Anne-Marie Duff

Lindsay Duncan

Derek Jacobi

Con O'Neill

Penelope Wilton

Michelle Bonnard

Margot Leicester

Ben Stott

Celia Duval

Otto Bathurst

Amanda Coe

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Drama: Biographical

30/11/2009

BBC Four - Margot

Drama based around the relationship between dancers Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.

Drama based on events in the life of Margot Fonteyn. Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff) faces a crisis in her marriage and retirement as a prima ballerina, but then Rudolf Nureyev arrives.

Drama based on events in the life of ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn. At the beginning of the 1960s, Fonteyn faces retirement from her career as a prima ballerina and a crisis in her marriage to Panamanian 'politician' Tito de Arias. When the much younger Rudolf Nureyev arrives on the scene, he transforms Margot's professional and personal life in a partnership celebrated around the world. But when Tito is shot and paralysed, the dancer faces an agonising choice about her future.

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