Maya Plisetskaya was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR as Maya Mikhaylovna Plisetskaya. She was an actress and writer, known for Chaykovskiy (1970), Anna Karenina (1975) and Skazka o konke-gorbunke (1962). She was married to Rodion Shchedrin. She died on May 2, 2015 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.