Born to Palermo, she began to studying ballet at the age of 4 with Marisa Benassai. She continued her studies to Monte Carlo, Cannes and, to 14 years old, she was the first Italian to be admitted to the prestigious school of the Paris Opéra, where, thanks to an overwhelming passion and an iron will, to only 22 years old she became Première Danseuse, interpreting the creations of the greatest masters of choreography such as Roland Petit, Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, John Neumeier, who favored her for her versatility and interpretative intelligence. She made her television debut to 12 years old in a program hosted from Pippo Baudo. She later appeared in several television shows, in 2007 she made her debut as a lead actress in the film _Il 7 e l'8 _di Ficarra e Picone, and in 2009 she joined Paolo Bonolis in hosting the Sanremo Festival. In the fall of the same year, Vasco Rossi chose her as the ideal performer to evoke the different facets of the female figure in his new video "Ad ogni costo," which became a cult hit in just a few weeks. Rizzoli Publishing House presents to November 2009 her autobiography Un angelo sulle punte, in which Eleonora recounts her extraordinary path built with enthusiasm and tenacity that "led her right where she wanted to be." The book quickly reached its third edition. On Dec. 31, 2009, Eleonora crowns another dream: dancing at the to Vienna New Year's Eve concert broadcast worldwide with costumes designed especially for her from Valentino. Curious and eclectic she is from also involved in the fashion world for years: discovered from Karl Lagerfeld as a photographer, she is linked from a friendship with fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana. President Sarkozy appointed her in May 2010 by decree "Chevalier dans l'ordre national du mérite" to reward her for her commitment to the service of the Opéra and France. On March 27, 2013, at the suggestion of Brigitte Lefèvre Director of Dance, Nicolas Joel Director of l'Opéra National de Paris appointed her Danseuse Etoile de l'Opéra de Paris, on the occasion of the last performance of Roland Petit's Carmen, precisely a creation by the great choreographer who had chosen her to 12 years old to be Aurora as a child in The Sleeping Beauty. In April 2015 she was appointed Director of the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.

Born to Bra, he began to dancing with Susanna Egri to Turin. In 1973 he joined to the Cullberg Ballet as Principal Dancer, performing the roles as Adam and Eve and Romeo and Juliet. In 1975 Roland Petit hired him at the Ballet National de Marseille, casting him in the roles of Coppelius in Coppélia, Frollo in Notre Dame de Paris, Ulrich in La Chauve-Souris, and the principal roles in Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. In 1984 he chose him as assistant and dancer for Heaven and Hell at the Palasport in Milan with La Scala Ballet. In 1986 he remounted the ballet _Ma Pavlova _for theOpera in Rome and in 1988 L'Ange Bleu for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. from that moment Roland Petit entrusted him with the task of reassembling ballets from his repertoire for Companies and Theaters, including the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Aterballetto, the Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Asami Maki Ballet and the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the National Ballet of Beijing, the Bol'šoj Theater in Moscow, the Opéra de Paris Theater, and the Ballet of theOpera State Ballet in Vienna. During his career he has danced with such celebrated partners as Margot Fonteyn, Zizi Jeanmaire, Natalia Makarova, Carla Fracci, Luciana Savignano, Alessandra Ferri, Maria Gimenez, Mizuka Ueno, and Lucia Lacarra. He has been invited to perform at major international festivals and galas.

Joined the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1994. He joins the corps de ballet in 1997. He becomes 'Coryphée' in 2001, 'Sujet' in 2002 and 'Premier danseur' in 2007. He is named 'Étoile' in 2010 after his performance of Solor in Rudolf Nureyev's version of La Bayadère. In his repertoire: "Emeralds" in Jewels, the third theme in The Four Temperaments (Balanchine), The Man in Black in La petite danseuse de Degas (Bart), The Phoenix in The Firebird and The Chief of the Mafiosi in The Wonderful Mandarin (Béjart), Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights (Belarbi), Iñigo in Paquita (Lacotte from Mazilier and Petipa), The Merchant in Les Mirages (Lifar), the "Precious Stones" pas de cinq in The Sleeping Beauty, Tybalt and Benvolio in Romeo et Juliette, Rothbart in Swan Lake and Espada in Don Quichotte (Nureyev), the title role in _Ivan le Terrible _(Grigorovitch), Morel in _Proust ou les intermittences du cœur _(Petit), Jason in Le Songe de Médée (Preljocaj), Glass Pieces (Robbins), Albrecht in Giselle (after Coralli and Perrot), White Darkness (Duato), The Moor in Pétrouchka (Fokine), Lucien in Paquita (Lacotte from Mazilier and Petipa), the title role in Caligula (Le Riche), Suite en blanc (Lifar), Armand in The Lady of the Camellias (Neumeier), Jean de Brienne and Abderam in Raymonda, Solor in _La Bayadère _(Nureyev), Frédéri in L'Arlésienne (Petit), the title role in Siddhartha (Preljocaj) and _In The Night _(Robbins); Orpheus in Orphée et Eurydice (Bausch), Appartement (Ek), Lescaut in L'Histoire de Manon (MacMillan), Baptiste in Les Enfants du paradis (Martinez), Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, The Actor in Cinderella (Nureyev), Le Loup, the title role in Le Jeune homme et la mort, Don José in Carmen (Petit), Afternoon of to Faun (Robbins). As an international guest in various companies he danced Ivan, in _Ivan the Terrible _at the Mariinsky Theater with the Kremlin Ballet in 2005; Le Corsaire for the ballet to Yekaterinburg (Russia); _Jerome Robbins In the Night _at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome in 2013; and Prince Siegfried in Rudolf Nureyev's _Swan Lake _at theOpera Theater in Vienna in 2015.