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  1. Alexander Borisovich Godunov (Russian: Александр Борисович Годунов; November 28, 1949 – c. May 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979, he defected to the United States.

  2. May 19, 1995 · Alexander Godunov, the swashbuckling Russian ballet dancer and movie actor, was found dead yesterday at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 45. Sheriff's Sgt. Bob Minutello told The ...

  3. May 14, 2024 · Alexander Godunov was a Russian ballet dancer and actor who had a successful career with Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet before defecting to the United States during the company’s 1979 engagement in New York City. The incident became even more dramatic when his wife attempted to return to the Soviet Union;

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  4. Oct 2, 2018 · By Andrew Choreographer | Oct 2, 2018. Alexander “Sasha” Godunov, 1949 – 1995. One ballet dancer that appears to have been forgotten with the passage of time is Alexander “Sasha” Godunov. Alexander Godunov, born on the 28 th November 1949, Sakhalin Island, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), to Boris Godunov and Lidia ...

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  5. Born in Riga in 1949, Godunov first studied ballet in his native city where he was a classmate of Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 1964 the Wonder-Boy Baryshnikov joined the Vaganova Choreographic...

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  7. May 19, 2000 · Article. Alexander Godunov remembered -- The Russian Ballet dancer-turned-actor 's career went down hill after he defected to the U.S. By. Nicholas Fonseca. Published on May 19, 2000 04:00AM...

  8. Alexander Godunov. Actor: Die Hard. He was born on Sakhalin Island at the far eastern end of the former Soviet Union and began studying dance at age 9 in the Riga State Ballet School.

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