
Elizabeth McGorian (formerly known as Sharon McGorian) is a Principal Character Artist of The Royal Ballet. She joined the Company in 1977 and was promoted to Soloist in 1991 and Principal Character Artist in 1997. In the 2019/20 Season, along with her Royal Ballet appearances, she performed Lady of the Pearls (Death in Venice) for The Royal Opera. McGorian was born in Zambia and studied at the Mercia Hetherington School in Zimbabwe. She joined The Royal Ballet Upper School in 1976, won gold in the 1977 Adeline Genée International Ballet Competition and joined the Company that year. Her wide repertory with the Company includes Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Empress Elisabeth and Helene Vetsera (Mayerling), Madge (La Sylphide), Princess and Queen (Swan Lake), Lady Elgar (Enigma Variations), Madame Larina (Onegin), Pianist (The Lesson), Berthe (Giselle), Queen and Carabosse (The Sleepin…
movieRoyal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty
2020 · Queen
movieMayerling
2019 · Baroness Helene Vetsera
movieThe Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
2018 · Mrs Stahlbaum
movieTchaikovsky: Swan Lake
2018 · The Queen
movieYoung Men
2017
movieThe Sleeping Beauty
2017 · The Queen
movieThe Nutcracker
2016 · Mrs Stahlbaum
movieFrankenstein
2016 · Madame Moritz (The Frankensteins' Housekeeper)
movieGiselle
2016 · Berthe
movieProkofiev: Romeo and Juliet
2015 · Lady Capulet
movieMayerling
2010 · Baroness Helene Vestera
movieMayerling (The Royal Ballet) 2009
2010 · Bratfisch
movieSwan Lake
2009 · The Princess, Siegfried's Mother
movieThe Sleeping Beauty
2006 · His Queen
movieThe Sleeping Beauty
1994 · The Queen
Riverside
1982 · Self
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
— · The Princess, Siegfried’s Mother