British dancer Charlotte Tonkinson is a Soloist of The Royal Ballet. She joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme from the start of the 2016/17 Season and entered the Company as an Artist from the start of the 2017/18 Season, promoted to First Artist, 2022 and to Soloist in 2026.

Tonkinson was born in Doncaster. She began dancing aged six and trained locally at Haydon’s Dance Academy. Aged 11 she joined the Academy of Northern Ballet, training with Yoko Ichino, Cara O’Shea, Viki Westall and Simon Kidd, and aged 16 joined The Royal Ballet Upper School. Awards while at the School included reaching the finals of Young British Dancer of the Year 2014. Performances in the School’s annual matinees included in Stijn Celis’s Vertigo Maze, Jerome Robbins’s The Mistake Waltz and David Bintley’s SpringTime. 

Tonkinson’s professional performances while a student included in The Nutcracker with Northern Ballet, Swan Lake and Cinderella on tour with Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Nutcracker and Giselle with The Royal Ballet. 

With the Company, her roles include Myrtha and pas de six (Giselle), Mitzi Caspar (Mayerling), Kitri's Friend (Don Quixote), Fairy of the Enchanted Garden (The Sleeping Beauty), Fairy Autumn (Cinderella), Juliet's Friend (Romeo and Juliet ), Prince Siegfried's Sister and Cygnet (Swan Lake), Rose Fairy and Mirliton (The Nutcracker) and roles in Anemoi, Corybantic Games, Scènes de ballet and Woolf Works. She has created roles in Joseph Toonga's Dusk, Gemma Bond's Boundless, Joshua Junker's Never Known and Wayne McGregor's Untitled, 2023.