Maya Plisetskaya was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR as Maya Mikhaylovna Plisetskaya. She is known for her work on Anna Karenina (1975), Anna Karenina (1967) and Swan Lake (1957). She was married to Rodion Shchedrin. She died on May 2, 2015 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.