Actor
Francesca Hayward
Born 1992 · Nairobi, Kenya
Francesca Hayward is a Kenyan-born English ballet dancer and actress, the daughter of an English father and a Kenyan mother. She is a principal dancer in the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. At the age of two, she moved to the Goring-by-Sea suburb of Worthing in West Sussex to live with her grandparents. She started ballet at age 3, after her grandparents bought her a video of The Nutcracker. When she was young, she danced at Le Serve School of Ballet and Theatre Dance in Worthing until her teacher encouraged her to audition to White Lodge, the junior section of the Royal Ballet School. After being a Junior Associate from the age of nine, she entered the School at the age of 11 in 2003, and progressed to the Royal Ballet Upper School in 2008. According to Hayward, due to an injury, she did not officially graduate, but received a certificate of attendance.
Acting
Audrey
Audrey Hepburn · 2020
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 2003
Cats
Victoria · 2019
Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet
Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy · 2016
The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
Clara · 2015
Tchaikovsky: Le Lac des cygnes
Prince Siegfried's younger sister · 2018
The Nutcracker
Clara · 2016
Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
Juliet · 2019
Like Water for Chocolate
Tita · 2023
Woolf Works
I Now, I Then / Becomings · 2017
The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)
Dancer · 2020
Giselle
Pas de six · 2016
La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)
Hen · 2015
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
Dora Penny (Dorabella) · 2019
The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern
Principal Dancer (Golden Hour) · 2019
Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice · 2024
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
Princess Stephanie · 2022
The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet)
Clara
Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Dancer · 2020