Darci Kistler is an actress, known for The Nutcracker (1993), Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas (1989) and Bringing Balanchine Back (2006). She has been married to Peter Martins since 1992. They have one child.
"The light that she shines is a kind of starlight." --Robert La Fosse
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"There's that devil inside. She already knows how to move to make everybody watch." --Rudolph Nureyev
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"But just the other day she told me: 'You know, Mom, I think I talked myself out of being a dancer because of you. I thought I'd never be as good as you.' And I wanted to cry." --[On her daughter's decision to eschew ballet and become a straight actress]
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["Did people think she was marrying Peter for job security"]: "I was a ballerina before I was with him. Of course, if I wasn't very bright, I'd think, 'Oh, this is going to make my career better.' No. I knew when I married Peter that I had had my career."
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You're 16, and you have the most incredible moment ever, and then you have to live and grow up and become the woman you want to be, the mother you want to be. Responsible. Human. I don't think a lot of people who were with Mr. B could grow up. That's why a lot of them became angry or unhappy. I magnify the little time I spent with him to people who knew him. That loss. How do you fill that? What fills that?
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Fact
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She was inspired to take up ballet at age after seeing a performance of Rudolph Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn dance "Sleeping Beauty".
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She was the youngest of five, the only girl.
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Won the Capezio Dance Award in 1991 and the Dance Magazine Award in 1992.
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She was the youngest to be picked to join the New York City Ballet, at age sixteen.
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She was the very last ballerina that George Balanchine picked for the New York City Ballet while he was alive.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Nutcracker
1993
The Sugarplum Fairy
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gossip Girl
2010
TV Series
Herself
Independent Lens
2008
TV Series documentary
Herself
Water Flowing Together
2007
Documentary
Herself
Bringing Balanchine Back
2006
Video documentary
Herself
Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas
1989
Documentary
Herself
Known for movies
The Nutcracker (1993) as The Sugarplum Fairy
Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas (1989) as Herself
$11 Million
