Marion Hooper Tait is a former ballerina and ballet mistress, and assistant director of

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since 2011. Tait was appointed an

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(OBE) in the

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, and promoted to

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(CBE) in the

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for services to dance. Tait was named Dancer of the Year 1994 and received the Evening Standard Ballet Award for Outstanding Performance. In

's 2013 production of '' The Sleeping Beauty'', Tait played the wicked fairy Carabosse.

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