Jennifer Welsman was born in Pentiction, British Columbia. At an early age, she got involved in dance at the Penticton School of Dance, later becoming a member of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in 1993.

In 2001, she had her first lead role in a ballet as Clara in The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

. http://www.rwb.org/About/Dancers/Soloists/JenniferWelsman.aspx She also plays the China Doll in the Canadian-based kids show The Toy Castle. She has also danced Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette and Odile in Swan Lake

Swan Lake

Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

, and Tiger Lily and Mrs. Darling in the ballet version of Peter Pan.http://www.rwb.org/About/Dancers/Soloists/JenniferWelsman.aspx