Gillian Lynne

Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, DBE is a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatretelevision director, noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with the longest running show in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. At age 87, she was made a DBE in the 2014 New Year Honours List.

Gillian Barbara Pyrke was born in Bromley, Kent, and was a precocious dance talent from an early age, teaming with her childhood friend Beryl Grey while still at school, and dancing to blot out the tragedy of the violent death of her mother onJuly 1939 in Coventry, when Lynne was justyears old.

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