![]() ![]() In 1940 he left France and travelled with his mother to America to join his sister, Vera, in New York where she was training to be an opera singer. For several years he toured France with the company gaining solid acting experience. He developed a love for performing whilst working for three years as a trapeze artist with the Cirque d'Hiver but in 1934, after an accident limited his acrobatic career, he turned to acting with a Parisian repertory theater company, the Theatre des Mathurins. In 1932 the family moved to Paris and Brynner briefly and reluctantly attended the exclusive and expensive Lyceé Moncelle before leaving to lead the free and easy artist's life, earning a living as a guitar player in nightclubs, particularly those frequented by Russian Romany gypsies. When Brynner was three, his father abandoned the family after falling in love with an actress from the Moscow Art Theatre, and he and his sister were taken by their mother to Manchuria in north eastern China, where they attended a YMCA school. His father, Boris, was a mining engineer and the family were comfortably off. Brynner had a sister, Vera, six years his senior. The year 1920 is given by his son Yul "Rock" Brynner in his biographies of his father. ![]() During his life Brynner would often conceal or falsify details of his early life, including the year he was born which he revealed to be anything between 19. Yul Brynner was born in Vladivostok, Russia on 11 July 1920, and named Yuli Borisovitchīryner after his grandfather Jules Bryner. Yul Brynner was a Russian-born film and stage actor well known for his distinctive shaved head and for his roles as the King of Siam in the musical 'The King and I' in 1956 for which he won a Best Actor Academy Award, and as Chris Adams, the leader of the pack in 'The Magnificent Seven' in 1960.
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