Sylvie Guillem
Dancer
French ballet dancer who has been named the top-ranking female dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet from 1984 until 1989.
She trained in gymnastics as a child and started training at the Paris Opera Ballet School with Claude Bessy when she was 11 years old.
She worked as an Associate Artist of the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 2006.
She had a long term relationship with photographer Gilles Tapie in 2006.
She performed in Rudolf Nureyev's stagings of Swan Lake and Don Quixote.