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Francesca Hayward
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 Coven…
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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.
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- 2024
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2024
Cygnes
Movie
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2023
Like Water for Chocolate
Movie Tita
- 2022
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2022
The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
Movie Princess Stephanie
- 2020
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2020
Audrey
Movie Audrey Hepburn
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2020
Live from Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Movie Dancer
- 2020
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2019
Cats
Movie Victoria
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2019
Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
Movie Juliet
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2019
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
Movie Dora Penny (Dorabella)
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2019
The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern
Movie Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)
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2018
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Movie Prince Siegfried's younger sister
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2017
The Sun Is God
Movie
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2017
Woolf Works
Movie I Now, I Then / Becomings
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2016
Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet
Movie Herself, Sugar Plum Fairy
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2016
The Nutcracker
Movie Clara
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2016
Giselle
Movie Pas de six
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2015
The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
Movie Clara
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2015
La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)
Movie Hen
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - Guest
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The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet)
Movie Clara
