Acting
Community Rating
6.8
TMDB estimate
Born
July 4, 1992 (age 33)
Born in
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.
The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet)
as Clara
TBA
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Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as Alice
2024
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Cygnes
2024
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Like Water for Chocolate
as Tita
2023
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The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration
2022
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The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
as Princess Stephanie
2022
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Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
2020
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Audrey
as Audrey Hepburn
2020
—Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
as Dancer
2020
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The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)
as Dancer
2020
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Cats
as Victoria
2019
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Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
as Juliet
2019
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Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
as Dora Penny (Dorabella)
2019
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The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern
as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
2019
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Royal Opera House: Swan Lake
as Prince Siegfried's younger sister
2018
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The Sun Is God
2017
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Woolf Works
as I Now, I Then / Becomings
2017
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Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet
as Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy
2016
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The Nutcracker
as Clara
2016
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Giselle
as Pas de six
2016
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