Yasmine Naghdi

English dancer Yasmine Naghdi is a Principal of The Royal Ballet. She joined The Royal Ballet in 2010, was promoted to First Artist in 2012, Soloist in 2014, First Soloist in 2016, and Principal in 2017. 

Naghdi's leading roles with the Company include Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Tatiana (Onegin), Manon, Giselle, Cinderella, Kitri (Don Quixote), Gamzatti (La Bayadère), Swanilda (Coppélia), Mary Vetsera (Mayerling),  Marie Larish (Mayerling), Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Titania (The Dream), Firebird (The Firebird), Perdita (The Winter’s Tale), Mathilde Kschessinska (Anastasia), Tita (Like Water for Chocolate), Irina (Winter Dreams), Terpsichore (Apollo), Young Girl (The Two Pigeons), Girl (The Invitation), Stop Time Rag and Bethena/Concert Waltz (Elite Syncopations), Pink Girl (Dances at a Gathering), 2nd Movement (Concerto), central pas de deux (Within the Golden Hour), Symphonic Variations, Scènes de ballet, Balanchine's Jewels, Tarantella, The Four Temperaments, Symphony in C, Theme and Variations, Ballo della Regina, La Valse, and Serenade, and in various works by Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon. She created a role in Valentino Zucchetti's Prima and in Gemma Bond's Boundless. 

Her further repertory includes Grand Pas de deux (Le Corsaire), Act III Pas de deux (Sylvia), Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj), Three Preludes (Ben Stevenson) and  Ballet Imperial (George Balanchine). 

She was born in London and trained at The Royal Ballet School (White Lodge and Upper School). In 2009, she won the Young British Dancer of the Year competition.  

She was nominated Best Female Dancer at the 2018 Critic's Circle National Dance Awards.