Cyd Charisse is an American dancer and actress. She was born on March 8, 1921 in Amarillo, Texas. Reputedly, the name ‘Cyd’ was a nickname resulting from the inability of a sibling to pronounce the word ‘Sis’.

Charisse had celebrated on-screen pairings with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Her body of work includes one of the most acclaimed dance sequences in musical cinema, the “Broadway Melody Ballet” sequence from the movie Singin' in the Rain and the "Girl Hunt Ballet" from The Band Wagon.

Ms. Charisse has been married to singer Tony Martin for more than 50 years, an almost unheard of milestone for a Hollywood marriage.

Filmography

• Rhumba Serenade (1941) (short subject)
• Poeme (1941) (short subject)
• I Knew It Would Be This Way (1941) (short subject)
• Did Anyone Call? (1941) (short subject)
• Magic of Magnolias (1942) (short subject)
• This Love of Mine (1942) (short subject)
• Something to Shout About (1943)
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• Thousands Cheer (1943)
• The Harvey Girls (1946)
• Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
• Three Wise Fools (1946)
• Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
• Fiesta (1947)
• The Unfinished Dance (1947)
• On an Island with You (1948)
• The Kissing Bandit (1948)
• Words and Music (1948)
• East Side, West Side (1949)
• Tension (1950)
• Mark of the Renegade (1951)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• The Wild North (1952)
• Sombrero (1953)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• Easy to Love (1953) (cameo)
• Brigadoon (1954)
• 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955) (short subject)
• It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
• Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
• Silk Stockings (1957)
• Twilight for the Gods (1958)
• Party Girl (1958)
• Black Tights (1960)
• Five Golden Hours (1961)
• Something's Got to Give (1962) (unfinished)
• Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
• Assassination in Rome (1965)
• The Silencers (1966)
• Maroc 7 (1967)
• Film Portait (1972) (documentary)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
• Private Screening (1989)
• That's Entertainment! III (1994)