Lauren Cuthbertson (1984–). British ballerina

Lauren Cuthbertson trained at The Royal Ballet School and won the Young British Dancer of the Year Award in 2001. She joined The Royal Ballet the following year and was promoted the principal in 2008. She has danced the ballerina roles in the classics Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Don Quixote and Raymonda Act III, and leading roles in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Sylvia, Symphonic Variations, La Valse, Les Patineurs, Scènes de ballet, The Two Pigeons, Marguerite and Armand, and A Month in the Country; Kenneth MacMillan’s Requiem, Romeo and Juliet, Manon, Song of the Earth, Mayerling, Anastasia and The Judas Tree; George Balanchine’s Agon, Symphony in C, Apollo, Jewels, Serenade, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Ballo della regina, and The Four Temperaments; David Bintley’s Tombeaux; Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, DGV: Danse à grande Vitesse, Within the Golden Hour, and Strapless; Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering, The Concert, and Afternoon of a Faun; and Mikhail Fokine’s Les Sylphides. She created roles in Bintley’s Les Saisons; Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale and Corybantic Games; Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Infra, Acis and Galatea, Live Fire Exercise, and Carbon Life; David Dawson’s The Human Seasons and Cathy Marston’s The Cellist.