Swan

Graceful artist who carried fierce emotion beneath serene beauty.

Lisa Niemi — dancer, actress, and writer — embodies the swan's combination of outward elegance and deep inner feeling. Her memoir 'Worth Fighting For,' chronicling her husband Patrick Swayze's cancer battle and death, revealed the fierce emotional depth and romantically idealistic nature beneath her composed, artistic exterior. As a trained dancer and creative performer who later channeled grief into writing, she exemplifies the swan's perfectionist artistic drive and capacity for sudden, raw intensity despite an otherwise graceful public presence.