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