Famous British Dancers: 121 Biographies

Margot Fonteyn

British ballerina

Sarah Brightman

British singer and actress

Walter Laird

British dancer (1920–2002)

Thom Yorke

English musician and singer for Radiohead

Glynis Johns

British actress (1923–2024)

Bryony Brind

British ballerina

Billie Piper

British actress and singer (born 1982)

Jenny Agutter

British film and television actress (born 1952)

Bruce Forsyth

British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter (1928–2017)

Jenny Lee-Wright

English actress and dancer

Joseph Haines

British actor, musician and writer

Jade Thirlwall

British singer

Sarah Harding

British singer and actress (1981-2021)

Sarah Lloyd

British travel writer

Matthew Bourne

British ballet and dance choreographer

Leigh Anne Pinnock

British singer

Jesy Nelson

British singer

Elsa Lanchester

British-American actress (1902–1986)

Gaynor Fairweather

British dancer

Irek Mukhamedov

Soviet dancer, ballet teacher and pedagog

William Chappell

dancer, ballet designer (1907–1994)

Fleur East

British singer

Alex Moore

British dancer (1901–1991)

Louise

British singer

Donnie Burns

Scottish professional ballroom dancer

Elizabeth Knepp

British actor, singer and dancer

Tasha Ghouri

English television personality

FKA twigs

English singer and dancer (born 1988)

Ruthie Henshall

British actress, singer and dancer

Natasha Hamilton

British pop singer

Sarah Michelson

British choreographer and dancer (born 1964)

AJ Tracey

British rapper, singer and record producer from London

Rosina Vokes

English actor and dancer (1854–1894)

Jean Marsh

English actress (1934–2025)

Deryk Mendel

British actor (1920-2013)

Kevin Clifton

British dancer

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Italian antiquarian (1778-1823)

Veronica Gibson

British dancer and patron of the arts (1937-2022)

Lindsay Kemp

British mime (1938-2018)

Darcey Bussell

British ballerina

Jessie Matthews

English actress, singer and dancer (1907–1981)

Hannah Chaplin

English stage and musical actress (1866–1928)

Siobhan Davies

British dancer

Alicia Markova

British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004)

Richard Wherlock

British dancer and choreographer (born 1958)

Charles Castle

British dancer (1939-2013)

Gillian Lynne

British ballet dancer, actress, choreographer and director (1926-2018)

Phyllis Monkman

actor

Diana Evans

British novelist (born 1971)

Polly Walker

British actress

Janet Woollacott

British dancer (1939–2011)

Joan Jay

dancer

Finola Hughes

British actress (born 1959)

Bailey May

Filipino-British singer, actor and model

Dolores

artists' model

Paul Killick

British dancer

Isabel Clifton

English actress (born 2002)

Keith Flint

British singer and musician (1969-2019)

AJ Pritchard

British ballroom dancer

Anjali Jay

British actress

Ray Quinn

English singer-actor

Maina Gielgud

British ballet dancer

Lauren Bennett

English singer and dancer (1989–2026)

Lizzie Gough

British dancer

John Hegley

British writer, musician and comedian

Liam Scarlett

British choreographer (1986-2021)

Nigel Lythgoe

Executive producer and television director

Gretchen Franklin

English actress (1911-2005)

Lydia Sokolova

British dancer (1896–1974)

Angelique Rockas

South African Greek actress, producer, artistic director of Internationalist Theatre, and activist (born 1951)

Danny John-Jules

British actor, singer and dancer

Sally Brayley

Canadian-American ballet dancer

Dorma Leigh

British dancer and actress

Lola Rae

Nigerian singer

Sue Upton

British actress

Amy Dowden

Welsh dancer

Alan Carter

British ballet dancer

Lilia Kopylova

British ballroom dancer

Liz McClarnon

English singer, songwriter

Ian Abercrombie

British actor (1934–2012)

Spike Dawbarn

British musician

Nadia Nerina

South African ballet dancer (1927–2008)

Jeff Dexter

British disc jockey (DJ), club promoter, record producer and dancer

Martin Burgoyne

British artist (1963–1986)

Margaret Morris

British ballet dancer (1891–1980)

Richard Alston

British choreographer

Mary Campion

British singer and dancer

Mandy Rice-Davies

British actress (1944-2014)

Sophie Rebecca

English transgender ballet dancer

Ukweli Roach

British actor

Douglas Lee

British choreographer

Hannah Dodd

British actress and model

Suzy Miller

English model and dancer

Francesca Hayward

English ballerina

Elizabeth Anderton

British ballet dancer

Sisco Gomez

British dancer

Moira Shearer

British ballerina and actress (1926–2006)

Hazel V. Carby

American academic

Gill Clarke

Mary Malone

British actress

Jillian La Valette

British ballroom dancer

Rosemary Du Cros

aviator, one of the 'first eight' female pilots in Air Transport Auxiliary (1901-1994)

Gillian Revie

British ballerina (born 1969)

Svetlana Beriosova

British ballet dancer (1932-1998)

James Scott Skinner

British musician; (1843-1927)

David Dawson

British choreographer

Tino Sehgal

German artist (born 1976)

Dorette Wilkie

[formerly Wilke] (1867–1930), promoter of women's physical education

John Lacy

English comic actor and playwright (1615-1681)

Claire Cunningham

British choreographer and dancer

Margery Manners

British variety artiste and singer

Lydia Kyasht

Russian-British ballet dancer and teacher

Akram Khan

British dancer and choreographer

Robin Windsor

British dancer (1979–2024)

Wayne McGregor

British choreographer

Lydia West

British actor (born 1993)

Royston Maldoom

British choreographer

Winifred Hart-Dyke

English dancer, singer and actress

Dorothée Munyaneza

British-Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer

Charlotte Spencer

English actress

Christianna Brand

British writer (1907-1988)