Haley Bennett
☼ Born on 7 December 1988, in Fort Myers, Florida, USA
Biography
A natural talent with a striking presence, Haley Bennett continues to establish herself as one of Hollywood's most dynamic actresses.
Upcoming, Bennett will star opposite Austin Stowell in Carlo Mirabella-Davis's SWALLOW, on which she also serves as an executive producer. Bennett plays 'Hunter,' a pregnant, young housewife, whose seemingly perfect existence takes an alarming turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects. The film made its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, garnering massive critical acclaim, including Bennett's award for Best Actress. The film later appeared at the 2019 Deauville Film Festival, where it was awarded the Prix spécial du 45E and nominated for the Grand Special Prize. IFC Films is set to release the film in March 2020.
Following, Bennett will be seen in Ron Howard's HILLBILLY ELEGY for Netflix. Amy Adams and Glenn Close co-star in the film. Based on J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir that follows three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale law student is forced to return to his hometown. Bennett will also star in Antonio Campos's Netflix thriller THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME alongside Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, and Jason Clarke. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, the film follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. Both films are set for release in 2020.
Bennett's other film credits include THE RED SEA DIVING RESO
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RT opposite Chris Evans; THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE opposite Miles Teller; THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN also starring Emily Blunt, and Rebecca Ferguson; THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN opposite Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt; Warren Beatty's RULES DON'T APPLY; Antoine Fuqua's hit film THE EQUALIZER with Denzel Washington and Gregg Araki's festival darling KABOOM, which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2010.
Bennett made her on screen debut opposite Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant in the Marc Lawrence-directed film MUSIC AND LYRICS. She then went on to star in a range of different films including the hugely successful MARLEY AND ME opposite Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson and directed by David Frankel, ARCADIA LOST opposite Carter Jenkins and Academy-Award-Nominee Nick Nolte, and in Shekhar Kapur's short film PASSAGE, opposite Lily Cole and Julia Stiles which premiered to critical acclaim at the prestigious Venice Film Festival.
In 2018, Bennett made her stage debut opposite Peter Dinklage in the Terris Theatre's CYRANO, a new musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac for Goodspeed featuring original music by the National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner.
In the role of actor
Swallow (18/07/2019)
A young pregnant woman begins the habit of ingesting random objects in Swallow. Hunter (Haley Bennett) is a young woman who has a seemingly happy life with her husband Richie (Austin Stowell), who comes from a wealthy and successful family. Soon after moving into a new house, Hunter discovers that she is pregnant. It isn’t […]
Thank You for Your Service (27/10/2017)
Iraqi veterans deal with the effects of PTSD in Thank You for Your Service. Sergeant Adam Schumann (Miles Teller) returns home from a tour in Iraq, along with with his comrades Solo Aieti (Beulah Koale) and Will Waller (Joe Cole). Soon after landing, Adam is confronted by Amanda Doster (Amy Schumer), who wants information on how her husband […]
The Girl on the Train (09/10/2016)
An alcoholic divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons case in The Girl on the Train. Rachel (Emily Blunt) rides the trains everyday to and from New York, enviously observing the seemingly perfect couple of Scott (Luke Evans) and Megan (Haley Bennett). The couple just happens to live next door to Rachel’s ex-husband Tom (Justin […]
Hardcore Henry (11/04/2016)
A bio-engineered man rushes to save his wife in the first-person action film Hardcore Henry. Henry wakes up on a table and is greeted by a female doctor, who claims to be his wife Estelle (Haley Bennett). Henry has been brought back to life with cybernetic implants, funded by the telekinetic madman Akan (Danila Kozlovsky). Estelle is […]
A Different Kind of Boy (05/05/2014)
Alexander is a teenage boy with autism, who has just finished school and is preparing to head out to live on his own. Following his 18th birthday, Alexander goes on a trip to Barcelona with his older brother Sebastian. As they head off to attend a game by FC Barcelona, the two brothers bond, as […]
Marley (24/05/2012)
As you could probably tell from the title, Marley is a documentary about the life and career of reggae superstar Bob Marley. With a running time of 2hr24min, the film will definitely tell you all that you would ever want to know about Marley. In some ways, I feel the documentary was a bit too long, […]