ballet dancer who starred in the turning point
Mikhail Baryshnikov Baryshnikov performed in his first film role soon after arriving in New York. He portrayed the character Yuri Kopeikine, a famous Russian womanizing ballet dancer, in the 1977 film The Turning Point, for which he received an Oscar nomination. He co-starred with Gregory Hines and Isabella Rossellini in the 1985 film White Nights, choreographed by Twyla Tharp; and he was featured in the 1987 film Dancers. On television, in the last season of Sex and the City, he played a Russian artist, Aleksandr Petrovsky, who woos Carrie Bradshaw relentlessly and takes her to Paris. He co-starred in Company Business (1991) with Gene Hackman.
Julia Snyder Julia Snyder is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns. Actress Annie Parisse portrayed the character from April 13, 1998, to August 21, 2001. In 2001, Parisse was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for the role. Parisse later returned for a handful of episodes in 2002 and for one episode in 2003.[1]