| Maria Tallchief AKA Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief Born: 24-Jan-1925
Birthplace: Fairfax, OK
Died: 11-Apr-2013
Location of death: Chicago, IL
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: American Aborigine
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Dancer Nationality: United States
Executive summary: New York City Ballet Father: Alexander Joseph Tall Chief ("Alec", Osage, b. 1890, d. 12-Oct-1959)
Mother: Ruth Porter Tall Chief (Irish and Scottish)
Brother: Alexander Tall Chief ("Alec")
Sister: Frances Tall Chief (b. 1913, d. 1999)
Brother: Thomas Tall Chief (b. 1919, d. 1981)
Brother: Gerald Tall Chief ("Jerry", b. 1922, d. 1999)
Sister: Marjorie Tallchief (ballerina, b. 1927)
Husband: George Balanchine (m. 16-Aug-1946, annulled 1950)
Husband: Elmourza Natirboff (aviator, m. 4-Oct-1952, div. 1954)
Husband: Henry D. Paschen, Jr. ("Buzz", m. 3-Jun-1956, one daughter)
Daughter: Elise Maria Paschen (Poet, b. Jan-1959)
High School: Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA (1942)
Chicago City Ballet
Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet
New York City Ballet
Ballets Russes
Kennedy Center Honor 1996
National Women's Hall of Fame 1996
National Medal of Arts 1999
Tonsillectomy
Traveled to the USSR with the American Ballet Theater Troupe (Sep-1960)
Irish Ancestry Maternal
Scottish Ancestry Maternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Ballets russes (Jan-2005) · Herself
Million Dollar Mermaid (4-Dec-1952) · Pavlova
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