Yasmine Naghdi

Yasmine Naghdi (born 25 March 1992) is a British ballerina and a principal ballerina of The Royal Ballet, London. She joined The Royal Ballet's corps de ballet in April 2010 while she was a graduate student at The Royal Ballet School. She made her way up through all the five ranks of The Royal Ballet and reached the highest rank aged 24, when she was promoted to principal ballerina.

Early life and training Nagdhi was born to an Iranian Zoroastrian father and a Belgian mother. She also has some Georgian heritage on her father's side. Naghdi grew up in Kensington and attended Hill House School. At age 7, she joined the West London School of Dance and took after-school classes at the Marie Rambert Studio in Notting Hill.

Naghdi started her vocational training at The Royal Ballet School in 2004. She was a Royal Ballet School junior associate before joining The Royal Ballet School at White Lodge. As a student, she worked with The Royal Ballet company and first appeared on the Royal Opera House stage, aged 11, in Cinderella, aged 12 in Swan Lake, and later on in Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. In September 2008 Yasmine Naghdi progressed into The Royal Ballet School's Senior Section/Upper School; in March 2009 she was awarded first prize in the "Young British Dancer of the Year" competition. Together they have a son, born in London, on 4 December 2025.

Honours First prize "Classical Excellence", The Royal Ballet School "Most Outstanding Classical Dancer" award, 2007 First prize "Kenneth Macmillan Choreographic Competition", The Royal Ballet School. First prize Young British Dancer of the Year, 2009.