Claire Calvert

She started attending The Royal Ballet School when she was 11, where she was coached by Darcey Bussell.

[2][3][4] She danced lead roles Raymonda Act III and Jabula on her graduation year.

In 2009, while she was still an Artist, she made her principal role debut, as The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty.

[1] She has since other principal roles such as the Queen of Dryads and Mercedes in Don Quixote, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Queen of the Willis in Giselle, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons, Sugar Plum Fairy and Rose Fairy in The Nutcracker and Mitzi Caspar in Mayerling She has created roles in works including Aeternum and Charlotte Edmonds’s dance film The Indifferent Beak (Deloitte Ignite 14).

[1][6] In 2022, Calvert married Royal Ballet principal dancer Alexander Campbell.

Claire Calvert in Coppèlia