Actor

Maya Deren

Directing

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TMDB popularity

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Movies: 20Series: 0Crew credits: 17

TMDB ID: 96813

IMDb ID: nm0220305

Known for: Directing

Born: April 29, 1917

Died: October 13, 1961

Age: 44

Place of birth: Kyiv, Ukraine

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1943 - 2024

Years active: 82

Average TMDB rating: 6.6

Wikidata: Q450382

Also known as

Eleonora Derenkowsky

Other jobs

Director (12)Producer (2)Editor (1)Original Film Writer (1)Sound (1)

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Biography

Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.