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

Cats

as Victoria

Audrey

as Audrey Hepburn

Like Water for Chocolate

as Tita

Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words

as Juliet

The Nutcracker

as Clara

Swan Lake

as Prince Siegfried's younger sister

The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker

as Clara

Woolf Works

as I Now, I Then / Becomings

Royal Ballet All-Star Gala

The Royal Ballet: Mayerling

as Princess Stephanie