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Haley Loraine Keeling (born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) and has since appeared in films such as The Equalizer (2014), The Magnificent Seven (2016), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), and Cyrano (2021).
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 one of her mother's former married names as her stage name.
After signing a three-picture deal with Warner Bros. (beginning with Music and Lyrics), Bennett subsequently starred in her second and third films, the comedy College (2008) and the supernatural horror The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008). Also in 2008, she made a cameo appearance in Marley & Me. The following year, Bennett had a lead role alongside Julia Stiles in Shekhar Kapur's short film Passage. She then co-starred as Julie Campbell in the horror thriller film The Hole, directed by Joe Dante. In 2010, she appeared in the fantasy comedy Kaboom, and the drama Arcadia Lost. In July 2010, Bennett was cast in the FX crime-drama series Outlaw Country alongside Luke Grimes, Mary Steenburgen and John Hawkes. The pilot was filmed in 2010 before a rewrite and reshoots in April 2011. It remained in limbo until November 2011, when FX announced that it had not been picked up for a series. The hour-and-a-half long pilot was broadcast as a TV film on August 24, 2012.
Bennett then landed the lead in the thriller film Kristy (2014). She next appeared in the independent drama film Lost in the White City (2014), alongside Thomas Dekker and Bob Morley. Also in 2014, Bennett appeared in The Equalizer with Denzel Washington and Melissa Leo.
In 2015, Bennett starred in Ilya Naishuller's first-person point-of-view film Hardcore Henry. In 2016, she appeared as Emma Cullen in Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven, co-starred as Megan Hipwell in the Tate Taylor-directed film adaptation of Paula Hawkins' thriller novel The Girl on the Train, and played actress Mamie Murphy in Warren Beatty's comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply. Responses to the first two films were mixed, while the third was more positively received. Bennett's performances were praised in all three. In 2017, Bennett played Saskia Schumann in Jason Hall's PTSD drama film Thank You for Your Service. She had also been cast in Terrence Malick's musical drama film Song to Song, alongside Christian Bale, but her scenes were later cut.
In 2019, she starred in and produced the psychological thriller Swallow, directed by Carlos Mirabella-Davis, revolving around a woman with pica. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2019, where Bennett received the award for Best Actress. Her performance in the film received rave reviews from critics calling it "pitch-perfect", "extraordinary", and "masterful". That same year, she starred in The Red Sea Diving Resort directed by Gideon Raff, opposite Chris Evans.
In 2020, she co-starred in two adaptations of books: the drama thriller The Devil All the Time, directed by Antonio Campos and based upon the novel of the same name; and Hillbilly Elegy, directed by Ron Howard, both for Netflix.
She is in Eli Roth's Borderlands, an adaptation of the video game of the same name. Bennett joined Whoopi Goldberg in drama film Till written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu. She is starring in and producing the feature adaptation of Brood, a novel by Jackie Polzin.
Career
In what was only her third audition, Bennett won the role of popstar Cora Corman for her film debut in the 2007 romantic comedy Music and Lyrics. She sang several songs for the film's soundtrack, including "Buddha's Delight" and "Way Back into Love"; fragments of the songs "Entering Bootytown" and "Slam" are heard during concert scenes in the film, and her song "Invincible" plays during the end credits. That same year, she signed with 550 Music/NuSound Records (part Epic Records), and began working on her debut album, though one was never released. Bennett performed her first live concert at The Mint in Los Angeles on June 19, 2008. Despite the auspicious film debut, Bennett did not break through.
Personal life
In early 2017, Bennett began a relationship with then-married English film director Joe Wright, with Wright's wife at the time subsequently filing for divorce. She gave birth to her first and Wright's third child, a daughter, on December 27, 2018. Non-loginwalled link at bibliogram.pussthecat.org "How a New Generation of Designers Is Shaking Up Storied Fashion Houses" , Vogue (magazine), February 13, 2018. As of 2019, the family resides in Bruton, England.
Filmography
Film
2007 Music and Lyrics Cora Corman 2008 College Kendall The Haunting of Molly Hartley Molly Hartley Marley & Me Lisa 2009 The Hole Julie Campbell Passage Abby Short film 2010 Kaboom Stella Arcadia Lost Charlotte 2013 Deep Powder Natasha 2014 After the Fall Ruby Kristy Justine Wills Lost in the White City Eva The Equalizer Mandy 2015 Hardcore Henry Estelle 2016 A Kind of Murder Ellie Briess The Magnificent Seven Emma Cullen The Girl on the Train Megan Hipwell Rules Don't Apply Mamie Murphy 2017 Song to Song Scenes deleted Thank You for Your Service Saskia Schumann 2019 Swallow Hunter Also executive producer The Red Sea Diving Resort Rachel Reiter 2020 The Devil All the Time Charlotte Russell Hillbilly Elegy Lindsay 2021
Cyrano Roxanne 2022 Till Carolyn Bryant She Is Love Patricia 2023 Magazine Dreams Jessie Released theatrically in 2025 Widow Clicquot Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot 2024 The Journalist Borderlands Lilith's mom The Luckiest Man in America Patricia
Television
TBA The Last Frontier Sidney Upcoming series
External links
Categories: 1988 Births, Living People, 21st-century American Actresses, 21st-century American Singers, 21st-century American Women Singers, 550 Music Artists, Actors From South Somerset, Actresses From Florida, Actresses From Ohio, Actresses From Somerset, American Child Actresses, American Expatriate Actresses, American Expatriates In England, American Film Actresses, American People Of Lithuanian Descent, American People Of Scottish Descent, People From Bruton, People From Fort Myers, Florida, People From Naples, Florida, People From Stow, Ohio
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