Francesca Hayward
Born: 1992-07-04 in Nairobi, Kenya
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2023
- Like Water for Chocolate as Tita
2022
- The Royal Ballet: Mayerling as Princess Stephanie
- The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration
2020
- Audrey as Audrey Hepburn
- The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet) as Dancer
- Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
- Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House as Dancer
2019
- Cats as Victoria
- Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words as Juliet
- The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
- Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet) as Dora Penny (Dorabella)
2018
- Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake as Prince Siegfried's younger sister
2017
- Woolf Works as I Now, I Then / Becomings
- The Sun Is God
2016
- The Nutcracker as Clara
- Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet as Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy
- Giselle as Pas de six
2015
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest