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- Birth nameMabinty Bangura
- Michaela is a ballerina with the Dutch National Ballet. Her memoir, Taking Flight, was co-authored by her mother, Elaine DePrince. It is being published in 13 countries, and distributed in many more. It is a best-seller in the UK and the Netherlands. Due to her fascinating back story, she has become a spokesperson for disadvantaged children, and child victims of war. She also speaks on the topics of self-esteem and racism in ballet.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elaine DePrince
- RelativesMia DePrince(Sibling)
- With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, she authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (2014).
- Her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, died a day after Michaela DePrince in Vermont during a routine pre-surgical procedure. She did not know of her daughter's death.
- Throughout her career, Michaela DePrince danced with prestigious institutions, including as a student at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre.
- DePrince danced the leading role in Coppelia, a 2021 ballet film without dialogue that combines live dance with animation. It is a modernized version of a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
- In 1999, at the age of four, she and another girl, also named Mabinty, later given the name Mia, were adopted by Elaine DePrince and Charles DePrincee, a couple from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and taken to the United States.
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