American actress (born 1988)
Haley Bennett
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Bennett in 2021
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Born
| Haley Loraine Keeling
(
1988-01-07
)
January 7, 1988
(age 36)
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Occupation
| Actress
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Years active
| 2007?present
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Partner(s)
| Joe Wright
(2017?present)
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Children
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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).
Early life
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Bennett was born Haley Loraine Keeling in
Fort Myers, Florida
, on January 7, 1988.
[1]
Her parents, Leilani (
nee
Dorsey Bennett) and Ronald Keeling,
[2]
[3]
met in church and hitchhiked to Florida while Leilani was pregnant with her.
[4]
She is of English, German, Irish, Lithuanian, and Scottish descent. She was raised in
Naples, Florida
.
[2]
Her parents divorced when she was six years old and she moved to
Ohio
with her father, who opened an automobile repair shop there.
[4]
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.'"
[4]
Bennett describes her childhood as "nomadic", as she moved between living with her father in Ohio and her mother in Florida:
I lived somewhat of a nomadic life even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like
Huckleberry Finn
... I was kind of a tomboy for awhile. It's tough to explain because I grew up with my mom and my dad simultaneously but separately because they weren't together. So I kind of get femininity from my mother and boyishness from my dad. He loved fishing, he loves hunting, he loves boating, and football, baseball, and basketball. So that really saturated my life. And then my mother was very soft and also strong, but more of an artist. So I kind of had the best of both worlds.
[5]
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
.
[3]
She attended the
International Modeling and Talent Convention
in 2001 and 2006, where she won a major award,
[3]
acted in school plays, and sang in choirs.
[6]
She also lived with her mother in Naples occasionally, where she attended
Barron G. Collier High School
, and studied music and acting.
[7]
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.
[4]
She began using her mother's maiden name as her stage name.
[6]
[8]
Career
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In what was only her third audition,
[4]
Bennett won the role of popstar Cora Corman for her film debut in the 2007 romantic comedy
Music and Lyrics
.
[9]
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.
[10]
After signing a three-picture deal with
Warner Bros.
(beginning with
Music and Lyrics
),
[11]
Bennett subsequently starred in her second and third films, the comedy
College
(2008)
[12]
and the supernatural horror
The Haunting of Molly Hartley
(2008).
[13]
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
.
[14]
In 2010, she appeared in the fantasy comedy
Kaboom
,
[15]
and the drama
Arcadia Lost
.
[16]
In July 2010, Bennett was cast in the
FX
crime-drama series
Outlaw Country
alongside
Luke Grimes
,
Mary Steenburgen
and
John Hawkes
.
[17]
The pilot was filmed in 2010 before a rewrite and reshoots in April 2011.
[18]
It remained in limbo until November 2011, when FX announced that it had not been picked up for a series.
[19]
The hour-and-a-half long pilot was broadcast as a TV film on August 24, 2012.
[20]
Bennett then landed the lead in the thriller film
Kristy
(2014).
[21]
She next appeared in the independent drama film
Lost in the White City
(2014), alongside
Thomas Dekker
and
Bob Morley
.
[22]
Also in 2014, Bennett appeared in
The Equalizer
with
Denzel Washington
and
Melissa Leo
.
[23]
In 2015, Bennett starred in
Ilya Naishuller
's first-person point-of-view film
Hardcore Henry
.
[24]
In 2016, she appeared as Emma Cullen in
Antoine Fuqua
's
The Magnificent Seven
,
[25]
co-starred as Megan Hipwell in the
Tate Taylor
-directed film adaptation of
Paula Hawkins
' thriller novel
The Girl on the Train
,
[26]
and played actress Mamie Murphy in
Warren Beatty
's comedy-drama
Rules Don't Apply
.
[27]
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
.
[28]
She had also been cast in
Terrence Malick
's musical drama film
Song to Song
, alongside
Christian Bale
,
[29]
but her scenes were later cut.
[30]
In 2019, she starred in and produced the
psychological thriller
Swallow
, directed by Carlos Mirabella-Davis, revolving around a woman with
pica
.
[31]
It had its world premiere at the
Tribeca Film Festival
in April 2019, where Bennett received the award for Best Actress.
[32]
[33]
Her performance in the film received rave reviews from critics calling it "pitch-perfect", "extraordinary", and "masterful".
[34]
[35]
[36]
That same year, she starred in
The Red Sea Diving Resort
directed by
Gideon Raff
, opposite
Chris Evans
.
[37]
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
.
[38]
[39]
She will next appear in
Eli Roth
's
Borderlands
, an adaptation of the video game of the same name.
[40]
Bennett joined
Whoopi Goldberg
in drama film
Till
written and directed by
Chinonye Chukwu
.
[41]
She will star in and produce the feature adaptation of
Brood
the bestselling debut novel of author Jackie Polzin.
[42]
Personal life
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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.
[43]
[44]
[45]
As of 2019, the family resides in
Bruton
, England.
[46]
Filmography
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Film
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Television
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Short film
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Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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2009
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Passage
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Abby
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2009
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Lowlight: A Wonderful Lie
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Herself
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2012
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LP: Into the Wild
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Herself
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2012
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Sleepwalking in the Rift
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2017
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Chloe: L'Eau
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