Nicolas Le Riche is a French ballet dancer. He entered the Paris Opera Ballet school at age ten and joined the corps de ballet six years later; his first r�le was in Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique. He was promoted to sujet in 1990 and premier danseur in 1991. Balletmaster Rudolf Nureyev cast him as Mercutio and subsequently Romeo in his version of Romeo and Juliet; he then performed in Nijinska's Le Train Bleu, in Robbins' In the Night, Neumeier's Vaslaw, Lander's Etudes, Nureyev's La Bayad�re, Mats Ek's version of Giselle, and Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and Les Forains. Le Riche was promoted to the Paris Opera Ballet's highest rank, that of �toile, after his debut in the r�le of Albrecht in the traditional version of Giselle. He performed A Suite of Dances as guest artist at New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins celebration in June 2008. As choreographer he has made ballets since 2001, including Caligula to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in 2005. Nicolas Le Riche retired from the Paris Opera Ballet following a gala performance on 9 July 2014. 

January 29th, 1972 in Sartrouville (Age 52)