Born in Munich, Germany, Anna-Babette Winkler trained at English National Ballet School. She previously danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet before joining English National Ballet in 2018 and was promoted to First Artist in 2025.

Her repertoire includes Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring); Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Laid in Earth; Lead Winter in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round at the Royal Albert Hall; and Princesses in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake.