
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.

as Audrey Hepburn

as Self - Guest
2003

as Victoria
2019

as Audrey Hepburn
2020

as Prince Siegfried's younger sister
2018

as Hen
2015

as Juliet
2019

as Alice
2024

as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
2019

as Tita
2023

as Dancer
2020

as Pas de six
2016

as Dora Penny (Dorabella)
2019
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as Alice
2024
2024

as Tita
2023

2022

as Princess Stephanie
2022

2020

as Audrey Hepburn
2020
as Dancer
2020

as Dancer
2020

as Victoria
2019

as Juliet
2019

as Dora Penny (Dorabella)
2019

as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
2019

as Prince Siegfried's younger sister
2018

2017

as I Now, I Then / Becomings
2017

as Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy
2016

as Clara
2016

as Pas de six
2016

as Clara
2015

as Hen
2015

as Clara