Gillian Murphy (born 1979) is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.
Raised in Florence, South Carolina, she received most of her early dance training in that state. After some experience with the Columbia City Ballet, she continued her studies at the North Carolina School of the Arts. There, under the tutelage of the famous ballerina Melissa Hayden, Murphy danced principal roles in several of the school’s ballets including a production of The Nutcracker and George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Western Symphony, Tarantella and Theme and Variations.
Murphy joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in August 1996, and was promoted to Soloist in 1999 and then to Principal Dancer in 2002.
