# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tanaquil-le-clercq
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:57:06.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tanaquil-le-clercq"
name: "Tanaquil Le Clercq"
slug: "tanaquil-le-clercq"
description: "Tanaquil Le Clercq was an American ballet dancer, born in Paris, France, who became a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet at the age of nineteen. Her dancing career ended abruptly when she was stricken with polio in Copenhagen during the company's European tour in 1956. Eventually regaining most of the use of her arms and torso, she remained paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life."
tagline: "French-American ballerina"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq_as_Dewdrop_in_The_Nutcracker%2C_Act_II%2C_1954.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1929-10-02"
deathDate: "2000-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.568757333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1136968/"
    handle:    "nm1136968"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Леклер, Танакиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq"
    title: "Tanaquil Le Clercq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq"
    title: "Tanaquil Le Clercq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq"
    title: "Tanaquil Le Clercq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq"
    title: "Tanaquil Le Clercq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq"
    title: "Tanaquil Le Clercq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2"
    title: "タナキル・ルクレア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15502557"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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