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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
Swan Lake
as Prince Siegfried's younger sister
Woolf Works
as I Now, I Then / Becomings
The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)
as Dancer
RB&O Live 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as Alice
Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
as Juliet
The Nutcracker
as Clara
