Francesca Hayward
Actor
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
Audrey
as Audrey Hepburn 2020
Like Water for Chocolate
as Tita 2023
Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
as Juliet 2019
The Nutcracker
as Clara 2016
Royal Opera House: Swan Lake
as Prince Siegfried's younger sister 2018
The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
as Clara 2015
Woolf Works
as I Now, I Then / Becomings 2017
Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet
as Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy 2016
Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
2020
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
as Princess Stephanie 2022
The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration
2022
Giselle
as Pas de six 2016
The Sun Is God
2017
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
as Dora Penny (Dorabella) 2019
The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern
as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour) 2019
The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)
as Dancer 2020