Anna Valev, née Backman (born 1969) is a Swedish ballet dancer.
Until her retirement from active dancing in 2012, she was a principal dancer with the Royal Swedish Ballet.
[1] Born in Täby in Stockholm County, she took an early interest in dance, attending ballet classes five days a week by the time she was eight years old.
[2] She immediately joined the Royal Swedish Ballet, becoming a soloist in 1992 and a principal dancer in 1994.
Her final assignment was in Pontus Lidberg's The Little Match Girl Passion in April 2012.