Lauren Cuthbertson

Lauren Cuthbertson is a Principal of The Royal Ballet, born in Devon and trained entirely through The Royal Ballet School from junior associate to Upper School. She joined the Company in 2002 and was promoted to Principal in 2008.

Her career has been defined as much by role creation as by her interpretations of the classical canon. She originated the title role in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2011), Hermione in Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale (2014), and the title role in Cathy Marston's The Cellist (2020), an account of the life of Jacqueline du Pré. She has also created roles in numerous works by Wayne McGregor, including Qualia, Chroma, Infra, Acis and Galatea, Live Fire Exercise, Tetractys, and Multiverse.

Her classical repertory includes Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Sugar Plum Fairy, Titania in The Dream, Natalia in A Month in the Country, and Marguerite in Marguerite and Armand. She won the Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Female Performance (Classical) in 2004 and again in 2021.

Earlier in her career Cuthbertson was awarded the Lynn Seymour Award and Young British Dancer of the Year at The Royal Ballet School.