Famous American Ballet Dancers: 244 Biographies
Biographies of notable american ballet dancers, ordered by how extensively their careers are documented.
Emery LeCrone
American dancer
Nicole Scherzinger
American singer and actress (born 1978)
John Jasperse
American choreographer
Gemze de Lappe
American ballet dancer, Broadway theatre choreographer, and 're-creator'
Janee Michelle
American actress
Paula Abdul
American singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and television personality
Misty Copeland
American ballet dancer
Bob Fosse
American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)
Zoe Saldaña
American actress (born 1978)
Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)
Bebe Neuwirth
American actress
James Starbuck
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1912-1997)
Magali Messac
French ballet dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
Leslie Caron
French and American actress and dancer (born 1931)
Annabelle Lyon
ballet dancer
Vicente Nebrada
Venezuelan choreographer and ballet dancer (1930–2002)
Maria Karnilova
American actress (1920-2001)
Mikhail Mordkin
Russian-American ballet dancer (1880–1944)
Marguerite Derricks
choreographer
Patricia Bowman
American ballet dancer (1904-1999)
Simone Forti
American dancer and choreographer (1935–2026)
Alison Roper
ballet dancer
Suzanne Farrell
American ballerina
Joan McCracken
American dancer and actress (1917–1961)
George Balanchine
American choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904–1983)
Alvin Ailey
African-American dancer, choreographer and activist (1931-1989)
Connor Walsh
ballet dancer
Bridget Breiner
American dancer
Gelsey Kirkland
American ballet dancer (born 1952)
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer and director (1918–1998)
Diana Adams
American ballerina and ballet teacher (1926-1993)
Michaela DePrince
Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer (1995–2024)
Joyce Cuoco
American ballet dancer
Sharon Farrell
American actress (1940–2023)
Ray Barra
American ballet dancer
Tamara Toumanova
Russian ballet dancer (1919-1996)
Ann Marie DeAngelo
American dancer
Dorothie Littlefield
American ballet dancer (1912-1953)
Twyla Tharp
American dancer and choreographer
Felia Doubrovska
Russian ballet dancer (1896-1981)
Jacques d'Amboise
American dancer and choreographer (1934-2021)
Marietta Bonfanti
American ballet dancer (1845–1921)
Léonide Massine
ballet dancer (1896–1979)
Danny Tidwell
American dancer (1984-2020)
Gregory Hines
American actor and dancer (1946–2003)
Arthur Mitchell
American dancer and choreographer, co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem (1934-2018)
Cyd Charisse
American dancer and actress (1921–2008)
Amar Ramasar
ballet dancer
Ethel Winter
American ballet dancer
Catherine Littlefield
American dancer
Katherine LaNasa
American actress (born 1966)
Andrea Kremer
American sports journalist
Stanley Holden
British ballet dancer (1928-2007)
James Francis Ginty
American actor
Sara Leland
American ballet dancer (1941-2020)
Barbra Milberg
American dancer
Kyra Nichols
American ballet dancer
S. E. Cupp
American conservative political commentator and writer
Lea Thompson
American actress
Carrie Lee Riggins
ballet dancer
Sean Young
American actress
Marie-Jeanne
American ballet dancer (1920-2007)
Moscelyne Larkin
American ballet dancer (1925-2012)
Yvonne Chouteau
Native American ballet dancer (1929–2016)
Michael Hsu Rosen
American actor and dancer
Julie Diana
American ballet dancer, teacher, arts administrator and writer
Lauren Anderson
American ballet dancer (born 1965)
Shree Saini
Indian-American activist
Damian Woetzel
American dancer
Eric Emerson
Musician, actor, dancer (1945–1975)
William Forsythe
American choreographer (born 1949)
Lois Bewley
American dancer and choreographer (1934–2012)
Tamara Geva
Soviet-American actress and dancer (1906–1997)
Cree Cicchino
American actress
Antonia Franceschi
American actor and choreographer
André Eglevsky
American dancer (1917–1977)
Frances Taylor Davis
American dancer and actress (1929-2018)
Ksenia Karelina
Russian-American ballet dancer (born 1991)
Katharine Wildish
American ballerina
Kay Mazzo
American ballet dancer and educator
Lila York
American dancer and choreographer
Cynthia Harvey
American ballet dancer
Bené Arnold
ballet dancer, educator
Khiara Bridges
American anthropologist and legal academic
Raven Wilkinson
first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company
Eliot Feld
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Alexandra Waterbury
American ballet dancer and model
Ted Shawn
American dancer (1891–1972)
Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)
Lana Condor
Vietnamese-American actress
Mary-Ellen Moylan
American ballet dancer 1925–2020
Ivan Allen
ballet dancer (1930-2012)
Alexander Godunov
Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor (1949-1995)
Danielle Baptiste
comics character
Maria Kochetkova
Russian ballet dancer
Amy Watson
ballet dancer, artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet
Amanda Schull
American actress, professional ballet dancer
John Neumeier
ballet dancer, choreographer and director
Belinda Bauer
actress
Ruthanna Boris
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1919-2007)
Lisa Rinehart
former dancer with American Ballet Theatre
Jayna Ledford
American ballerina
Tanaquil Le Clercq
French-American ballerina
Julian MacKay
American ballet dancer
Elvera Sanchez
American dancer (1905–2000)
Stella Abrera
Filipina-American ballet dancer
Marta Becket
American ballet dancer (1924-2017)
Zack Tang
Ballet & Contemporary Dancer, Choreographer, and Teacher
Robin Antin
American choreographer
Anneliese von Oettingen
Ballerina and choreographer (1917-2002)
Maria Tallchief
American ballerina (1925–2013)
Irina Baronova
American dancer (1919–2008)
Joy Womack
American ballet dancer
Debra Austin
US ballet dancer
Margaret Tracey
American ballet dancer and educator
Chase Johnsey
American ballet dancer
Peggy Willis-Aarnio
choreographer, historian, author and teacher of classical ballet
Lourdes Lopez
Cuban ballet dancer
Todd Bolender
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1914-2006)
Diane Varsi
American actress (1938-1992)
Alexei Ratmansky
Ukrainian-Russian-American ballet dancer and choreographer
Tatiana Riabouchinska
ballet dancer and teacher (1917–2000)
Adam Darius
American dancer (1930-2017)
Meg Howrey
American writer
Christopher Stowell
ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director
Leslie Browne
American dancer and actress (1957)
Benjamin Harkarvy
American choreographer (1930–2002)
Alexandros Iolas
American art collector (1908-1987)
Rosemary Valaire
American ballet teacher (1930-1999)
Nicholas Magallanes
Mexican-American ballet dancer
Susan Jaffe
ballet dancer (born 1962)
Augusta Maywood
American ballerina
Maria Calegari
American ballet dancer, teacher and répétiteur
Lorca Massine
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Jeffrey Cirio
American ballet dancer
George Zoritch
Russian-born American ballet dancer (1917–2009)
Janet Collins
American dancer (1917–2003)
Wendy Whelan
American ballet dancer
Alicia Holloway
American ballerina and television personality
Summer Glau
American actress
Sarah Van Patten
American ballerina
Miguel Gutierrez
American dance and music artist
Tina LeBlanc
American ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master
Janie Taylor
US ballet dancer, répétiteur and costume designer
Lexi Ainsworth
American actress
Carmen De Lavallade
American dancer (1931–2025)
Peter Tchernyshev
Russian-American ice dancer
Igor Youskevitch
ballet dancer (1912–1994)
Annabelle Gamson
American dancer
Nicole Maxwell
American medicinal plant researcher and ethnobotanist (1905/6 - 1998)
Vera-Ellen
actress, singer, dancer (1921-1981)
Evelyn Cisneros
American ballerina
Edward Villella
American ballet dancer (born 1936)
Juliet Landau
American actress
Judy Tyrus
US classical ballet dancer
Robert Joffrey
Ballet choreographer (1928–1988)
Ethan Stiefel
American ballet dancer
Serenity
pornographic actress from the United States
Fernando Bujones
American dancer (1955–2005)
Carol Haney
American dancer and actress (1924–1964)
Daniel Ezralow
American dancer and choreographer
Alan Bergman
ballet dancer and photographer (1943–2010)
Marjorie Tallchief
American ballerina
David Hallberg
American dancer
Nora Kaye
American ballet dancer and choreographer (1920-1987)
Julia Goldani Telles
American actress and ballet dancer
Peter Walker
American ballet dancer and choreographer
C.J. Perry Barnyashev
American professional wrestling manager and actress
Tiler Peck
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Peter Frame
American ballet dancer
Patricia McBride
American ballet dancer
Swayam Bhatia
American actress
Judith Chazin-Bennahum
American historian (born 1937)
Ruth Pryor
American ballet dancer
Richard Cragun
Ballet dancer and choreographer
Marc Platt
American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, and actor (1913-2014)
Kristina Anapau
American actress
Suki Schorer
American ballet dancer, ballet mistress, teacher, and writer
Waldeen Falkenstein
Mexican ballet dancer and choreographer (1913-1993)
Barbara Fallis
American dancer (1924-1980)
Viper
American pornographic actress (1959-2010)
Julie Kent
ballet dancer
Suzanne Douvillier
Ballerina, mime & choreographer (1778-1826)
Silas Farley
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Heather Parisi
American-born dancer, singer, and television personality based in Italy
Olga Spessivtseva
Russian ballet dancer (1895–1991)
Hannah Neeleman
American social media personality and businesswoman
Susan Hendl
American ballet dancer and master
Alexandra Danilova
American ballet dancer (1903–1997)
Isabel Mirrow Brown
ballerina
Paul Frame
American ballet dancer and chiropractor
Paul Taylor
American choreographer
Greta Hodgkinson
American-Canadian ballet dancer
Kyle Allen
American actor
Vera de Bosset
American ballet dancer (1889-1982)
Bessie Clayton
American dancer
Sarah Hay
American film actor and actor
Rosella Hightower
ballerina and ballet teacher (1920–2008)
Cory Stearns
American ballet dancer
Julia Moon
American ballerina and ballet director
Gia Allemand
American actress, model, reality TV contestant (1983-2013)
Leon Danielian
American ballet dancer (1920–1997)
Jonathan Stafford
American ballet dancer and artistic director (born 1980)
Glory Van Scott
American educator, actor and dancer (born 1947)
Melanie Hamrick
American choreographer and retired ballerina
Sydney Magruder Washington
American ballet dancer and blogger
Eva Evdokimova
American dancer (1948-2009)
James B. Whiteside
American ballet dancer
Glen Tetley
American ballet and modern dancer (1926-2007)
Othella Dallas
American dancer and jazz singer
Muriel Stuart
ballet dancer and teacher (1900-1991)
Brunilda Ruiz
Puerto Rican ballet dancer
Vincenzo Celli
Italian ballet dancer (1900–1988)
Lila Zali
American ballet dancer and theatre director (1918-2003)
Melissa Barak
ballet dancer
Richard Thomas
American ballet dancer (1925-2013)
Meredith McIver
Ghostwriter for Donald Trump
Deborah Carthy-Deu
Puerto Rican beauty pageant titleholder
Mary Ann Lee
American dancer and teacher (1824-1899)
Tatiana Dokoudovska
American ballet dancer
Kathi Martuza
ballet dancer
Ashley Tuttle
American ballet dancer
Donya Feuer
American dancer and choreographer (1934–2011)
Chris Warren
American actor
Harriet Hoctor
American ballet dancer and actor (1905-1977)
Dorothy Alexander
American choreographer (1904–1986)
Andrew Veyette
American dancer
Kevin McKenzie
American ballet dancer and choreographer
Mary Helen Bowers
American ballet dancer, fitness professional, author
Jean Sullivan
American actress (1923-2003)
Beatriz Stix-Brunell
American ballerina
Frankie Manning
American dancer and choreographer (1914–2009)
Catherine Asaro
American science-fiction writer
Heather Whitestone
American model
Don Lurio
Italian dancer (1927–2003)
Viola Essen
American ballet dancer and actor (1926-1969)
Sarah Lane
American ballet dancer
Dario Calmese
American artist and podcaster
Lawrence Rhodes
American dancer (1939–2019)
Eric Underwood
American British ballet dancer (born 1984)
La Sylphe
American dancer (1883-1968)
George Skibine
ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1920–1981)
Gerald Arpino
American dancer and choreographer (1923-2008)