Haley Bennett

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

Life and career

Haley Bennett was born Haley Loraine Keeling in Fort Myers, Florida,^[1] the daughter of Leilani Dorsey Bennett and Ronald Keeling. As a child, she moved with her father to Stow, Ohio, where she attended Stow-Munroe Falls High School, before the family relocated to Naples, Florida.^[2][3] Later, she studied music and acting while attending Barron Collier High School in Naples. She and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her career in the summer of 2005 after high school.^[4]

Haley made her film debut as the pop music singer Cora Corman in the 2007 romantic comedy Music and Lyrics, alongside Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Bennett sang several songs for the Music and Lyrics soundtrack, including "Buddha's Delight" and "Way Back into Love". Fragments of "Entering Bootytown" and "Slam" are heard during concert scenes in the film. "Invincible" can only be heard during the end credits and is only a minute and a half long.

She appeared in the February 2007 issue of GQ in the GQ/Features section.^[5] Also that year, she signed with 550 Music/NuSound Records (part of the Epic Records family of labels), and began working on her first album with the aid of singer-songwriter Shaley Scott.

She signed a three-picture deal with Warner Brothers Pictures^[6] and starred in her second and third films, College and The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008), in which she played the lead role. She also made a cameo in the film Marley & Me. She also appeared in Greg Laswell's remake of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" music video, and starred alongside Julia Stiles and Lily Cole in Shekhar Kapur's short film Passage. Bennett appeared in the horror film The Hole, shot in 3D and directed by Joe Dante.^[7]

Bennett performed her first live concert at The Mint in Los Angeles on June 19, 2008. Haley appeared in the October issue of Teen Vogue in the Young Hollywood section.

Bennett will appear in the Terrence Malick-directed project to be filmed under the name Lawless, scheduled to enter full production in 2012.^[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Music and Lyrics	Cora Corman
2008	College	Kendall Hartley
2008	The Haunting of Molly Hartley	Molly Hartley
2008	Marley & Me	Lisa
2009	Passage	Abby	Short film
2009	The Hole	Julie Campbell
2010	Kaboom	Stella
2010	Arcadia Lost	Charlotte
2012	Outlaw Country	Annabel Lee	Television film
2013	Deep Powder	Natasha
2013	Random	Justine	Post-production
2013	Things People Do		Post-production
2013	Untitled Terrence Malick project		Post-production
2014	The Equalizer		Filming