Francesca Hayward

Actor

Born: July 4, 1992 (age 34)
From: 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…

Filmography (22)

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