Leigh Alderson (born 1986) is a male ballet dancer, model and actor from Portadown, Northern Ireland.
Alderson trained at The Royal Ballet School performing in Rudi van Dantzig's Four Last Songs in Toronto and Stuttgart before graduating in 2006.
In July 2009, it was announced that Alderson would be attached as a featured dancer in Vertigo Films' StreetDance 3D that commenced shooting in mid-August 2009 to be released in May 2010.
[citation needed] Flight of Freedom was the product of a collaborative photo-shoot between Alderson and Karin Pritzel, a photographer from Dublin.
The photo first came to media attention in New York when the fashion designer Malan Breton chose it to be his official muse for his 2010 spring collection.