Peta Murgatroyd

  
BACKGROUND:

Peta Murgatroyd was born in Auckland, New Zealand and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She studied classical ballet from the age of four and trained for 12 years under former principal dancer of the Kirov Ballet, Madame Lubov Nikonorenko.

Peta became the Australian State Champion within three months of beginning ballroom training. She has competed around the world, placing 2nd in the Great World City Championships, was a semi-finalist in the Lion City Championships in Singapore and was a finalist in the Australian Open Championships. She placed 3rd in the world at the British Youth Latin Championships in Blackpool 2006.

In 2004, Peta was chosen to be a cast member of Burn The Floor, which has sold in excess of 4 million tickets in over 30 countries and 160 cities worldwide. She toured the world with them for six years. Burn The Floor then landed on Broadway in August 2009, where Peta was the lead female dancer. Impressive!

After achieving her lifelong goal of being on Broadway, Peta ended her run with the production in January 2010 to pursue a career in film and television in Los Angeles. What better way to do that than as a pro on Dancing With The Stars!

During season 13, she had Ron Artest, Basketball player as a celebrity partner. He was not a very good dancer and also made some sexist remarks, which were not appreciated. Ron was eliminated first and that gave Peta little chance to show what she can do.

 

 

    

 

 

For Season Fourteen, she has Donald Driver, a football player and a fabulous dancer. He has been at the top of the leader board and and and Peta are working very well together.  Peta and Donald won the Mirrow Ball Trophy Season 16