Francesca Hayward

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.

Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Cats

Audrey

The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)

Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

Like Water for Chocolate

Giselle

All Movies (22)

• Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland2024 · as Alice
• Cygnes2024
• Like Water for Chocolate2023 · as Tita
• The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration2022
• The Royal Ballet: Mayerling2022 · as Princess Stephanie
• Royal Ballet All-Star Gala2020
• Audrey2020 · as Audrey Hepburn
• Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House2020 · as Dancer
• The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)2020 · as Dancer
• Cats2019 · as Victoria
• Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words2019 · as Juliet
• Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)2019 · as Dora Penny (Dorabella)
• The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern2019 · as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
• Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake2018 · as Prince Siegfried's younger sister
• The Sun Is God2017
• Woolf Works2017 · as I Now, I Then / Becomings
• Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet2016 · as Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy
• The Nutcracker2016 · as Clara
• Giselle2016 · as Pas de six
• The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker2015 · as Clara
• La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)2015 · as Hen
• The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet)— · as Clara

All TV Shows (1)

• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest