Francesca Hayward
Acting • Born 1992-07-04
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
23 credits
Like Water for Chocolate
Movie • 2023
Tita
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
Movie • 2022
Princess Stephanie
The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration
Movie • 2022
The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
Movie • 2015
Clara
Woolf Works
Movie • 2017
I Now, I Then / Becomings
Giselle
Movie • 2016
Pas de six
The Nutcracker
Movie • 2016
Clara
Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet
Movie • 2016
Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy
Cats
Movie • 2019
Victoria
The Sun Is God
Movie • 2017
Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
Movie • 2019
Juliet
Royal Opera House: Swan Lake
Movie • 2018
Prince Siegfried's younger sister
Audrey
Movie • 2020
Audrey Hepburn
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
Movie • 2019
Dora Penny (Dorabella)
The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern
Movie • 2019
Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)
Movie • 2020
Dancer
The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet)
Movie
Clara
Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
Movie • 2020
La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)
Movie • 2015
Hen
Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Movie • 2020
Dancer
Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Movie • 2024
Alice
Cygnes
Movie • 2024
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest