Roxane Hayward | |
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Born |
Roxane Josephine Hayward May 7, 1991 Johannesburg, South Africa |
Occupation | Actress, model, singer |
Years active | 2006-present |
Roxane Hayward (born Roxane Josephine Hayward, 7 May 1991) is a South African film and television actress. She has appeared in numerous South African, British and American television shows which include Leonardo (TV series) for CBBC and Beaver Falls (TV series) for E4 as well as feature films, including Death Race 3: Inferno, produced by Universal Pictures.
In 2015, Hayward played the role of Susanna White in the Nat Geo scripted two-part movie event Saints and Strangers, produced by Sony Pictures Television, which premiered in November 2015. In June 2015, Roxane completed filming on the Action/Thriller feature film Accident, set to premier in 2016, in which she plays a lead role.
Hayward was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to parents who supported her decision to take on acting as a career. She started her theatrical training at the age of six along with dancing, singing and piano lessons. She joined her first acting agency at six year old and then booked her first television commercial. After high school, Hayward started studying drama, dancing and musical theatre.
In 2002 when Hayward was 11 years old, she was cast in her first television commercial. Hayward then started her acting career in the CBC television drama series Jozi-H in which she played a young, troubled teenager named Daphne who was admitted into the Johannesburg General Hospital for a drug overdose. Hayward had a guest role in Episode 9 of the series titled 'Smile'. The series premiered in 2006 and ran for one season. Shortly after filming Jozi-H, Hayward appeared in SABC's Isidingo as a young victim of abuse named Chloe.