Eric Underwood (dancer)

Eric Underwood is an American British ballet dancer, a soloist with The Royal Ballet.

Underwood grew up in a poor Maryland suburb of Washington DC. It was not until he was 14 that he "accidentally ended up in a dance class", and later won a scholarship for New York's School of American Ballet.

He joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 2000, and then the American Ballet Theatre in 2003, before joining London's Royal Ballet in 2006.