# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gelsey-kirkland
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:42:55.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gelsey-kirkland"
name: "Gelsey Kirkland"
slug: "gelsey-kirkland"
description: "Gelsey Kirkland is an American prima ballerina. She received early ballet training at the School of American Ballet. Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted to soloist in 1969, and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in many of the great twentieth century ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor, including Balanchine's revival of The Firebird, Robbins' Goldberg Variations, and Tudor's The Leaves are Fading."
tagline: "American ballet dancer (born 1952)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.982550666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456643/"
    handle:    "nm0456643"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://gelseykirklandballet.org"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsey_Kirkland"
    title: "Gelsey Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsey_Kirkland"
    title: "Gelsey Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsey_Kirkland"
    title: "Gelsey Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsey_Kirkland"
    title: "Gelsey Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Киркланд, Гелси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsey_Kirkland"
    title: "Gelsey Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%96_%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Гілсі Кіркланд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125345"
    title: "Gelsey Kirkland"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump