After joining the Paris Opera Ballet in 1999, she became a première danseuse (principal) in 2005 and was elevated to the rank of étoile (star) in 2012.
[1] In 1993 she began ballet lessons with Yvonne Goubé at the Salle Pleyel before attending the Conservatoire de Paris in 1995.
In 1998, with the school troupe, she danced La Sylphide in David Lichine's Le Bal des cadets and in 1999, she performed Gourouli in Albert Aveline's Les Deux Pigeons.
She was soon selected to take part in Roland Petit's Les Forains, to dance Aurore in The Sleeping Beauty and the Pas de Deux in the Coralli/Perrot version of Giselle.
[4] At the curtain call on 18 June 2012, following her performance as Lise in La Fille mal gardée, Myriam Ould-Braham was elevated to the rank of étoile.