Adelaide-born Lynette Wills began her ballet training with Betsy Sawers and graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 1990. She joined The Australian Ballet in 1991 after touring with The Dancers Company and was promoted to Senior Artist in 1996. Lynette has toured extensively with the company to Italy, London, Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States, and was promoted to Principal Artist after her fiery and moving portrayal of Baroness von Rothbart in the Sydney premiere of Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake in 2002.

In 2005 Lynette visited a Cambodian dance company as The Australian Ballet’s ambassador in a joint initiative between the company and CARE Australia. She returns to The Australian Ballet in 2008 after taking time off to become a mother to Thomas Burke with husband Tim Burke.