Liam Redhead

Ballet dancer and actor born in Canada in 1995. At the age of 7, he began to study hip hop with his older sister at the Barbara Treleaven School of Dance, and then trained in jazz, tap and ballet from the age of 9. As a child, he appeared in several dance competitions, in New York, Atlantic City and Las Vegas, where he won the national title of Mr Pre Teen with "Dance Educators of America" as well as the President's Cup Award. In 2007, after receiving a scholarship to attend a summer workshop at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of The American Ballet Theatre, he joined the Canada's National Ballet School at twelve years old. In 2009-2010 he made his Broadway debut starring as Billy Elliot in the eponymous musical on global tour. In 2014 he moved to Europe to join the Royal Danish Ballet Company under the direction of Nikolaj Hübbe.