Haley Bennett

At 36 years old, Haley Bennett has this physical status:

Haley Loraine Keeling (born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress and singer.

She made her film debut as pop star Cora Corman in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) and has since appeared in the films The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008), College (2008), The Hole (2009), Kaboom (2010), The Equalizer (2014), Kristy (2014), Hardcore Henry (2015), The Magnificent Seven (2016), The Girl on the Train (2016), Thank You for Your Service (2017), and The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019).

Early life

Bennett was born Haley Loraine Keeling in Fort Myers, Florida, on January 7, 1988. Her parents, Leilani (née Dorsey Bennett) and Ronald Keeling, met in church and hitchhiked to Florida while Leilani was pregnant with her. She is of English, German, Irish, Lithuanian, and Scottish descent. She was raised in Naples, Florida. Her parents divorced when she was six years old and she moved to Ohio with her father, who opened an automobile repair shop there. They moved regularly around the state, with Bennett later saying, "There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I [thought], 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'" Bennett describes her childhood as "nomadic", as she moved between living with her father in Ohio and her mother in Florida:

When Bennett was 10, she and her father moved to Stow, Ohio, where she attended Stow-Munroe Falls High School. At 13, she enrolled at Barbizon Modeling School in Akron, Ohio. She attended the International Modeling and Talent Convention in 2001 and 2006, where she won a major award, acted in school plays, and sang in choirs. She also lived with her mother in Naples occasionally, where she attended Barron G. Collier High School, and studied music and acting. When Bennett was 18, she persuaded her mother to take her to Los Angeles for three months to pursue an acting career. Just as she was about to return home, she managed to secure representation by claiming to her prospective agent that a highly regarded agency had approached her; the agent refused to lose Bennett and signed her. She began using her mother's maiden name as her stage name.

Personal life

Since 2017, Bennett has been in a relationship with English film director Joe Wright. Their daughter, Virginia Willow, was born December 27, 2018. As of 2019, the family reside in the United Kingdom in Bruton, Somerset.

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Career

Bennett performed Cora Corman for her debut in the 2007 romantic comedy Music and Lyrics, and it was only her third appearance. Several songs for the film's soundtrack include "Buddha's Delight" and "Way Back to Love"; fragments of the songs "Entering Bootytown" and "Slam" are seen during concert scenes; her song "Invince" appears during the end credits. She signed with 550 Music/NuSound Records (part Epic Records) in the same year and began working on her debut album that was never released. Bennett appeared at The Mint in Los Angeles on June 19, 2008. Bennett did not break through despite the opulent film debut.

Bennett appeared in her second and third films, as well as the supernatural horror The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008), after signing a three-picture contract with Warner Bros. (beginning with Music and Lyrics). She made a cameo appearance in Marley & Me in 2008. Bennett appeared in Shekhar Kapur's short film Passage, with Julia Stiles as the lead actor. Julie Campbell appeared in Joe Dante's horror thriller The Hole. She appeared in both the fantasy comedy Kaboom and the drama Arcadia Lost in 2010. Bennett appeared in the FX crime drama series Outlaw Country in July 2010, alongside Luke Grimes, Mary Steenburgen, and John Hawkes. The pilot was shot in 2010 before being rewritten and reshoots in April 2011. It remained in limbo until FX announced that it had not been selected up for a sequence until November 2011. On August 24, 2012, the hour-and-a-half pilot was broadcast as a television film.

Bennett then got the lead in the thriller film Kristy (2014). She appeared in the independent drama film Lost in the White City (2014) with Thomas Dekker and Bob Morley. Bennett appeared in The Equalizer with Denzel Washington and Melissa Leo, as well as in 2014.

Bennett appeared in Ilya Naishuller's first-person point-of-view film Hardcore Henry in 2015. Emma Cullen appeared in Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven co-starring Megan Hipwell, and Mamie Murphy appeared in Warren Beatty's comedy Rules Don't Apply. The first two films' reactions were mixed, while the third was more uplifting. In both directions, Bennett's performances were praised. In Jason Hall's PTSD drama film Thank You for Your Service, Bennett played Saskia Schumann. She had also appeared in Terrence Malick's musical drama film Song to Song alongside Christian Bale, but her scenes were later cut.

She appeared in and produced the psychological thriller Swallow, directed by Carlos Mirabella-Davis, based on a woman with a photograph. Bennett received the Best Actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019, where it had its world premiere. Critics penned praise for her role in the film, with critics describing it as "pitch-perfect," "extraordinary," and "masterful." She appeared in The Red Sea Diving Resort directed by Gideon Raff, opposite Chris Evans in the same year.

She co-starred in two adaptations of books in 2020: The Devil All the Time, directed by Antonio Campos, and based on the novel of the same name; and Hillbilly Elegy, directed by Ron Howard; both for Netflix.

She will appear in Eli Roth's Borderlands, an extension of the video game of the same name. Bennett appeared in Whoopi Goldberg's drama film Till, written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, was directed by Chinonye Chukwu. Author Jackie Polzin's best-selling debut novel will be directed and produced by her.

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