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Haley Bennett Profile |
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Birth Date: January 7, 1988
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Birth Place: Naples, Florida, USA
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Birth Name: Haley Katharina Bennett
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Biography |
Haley Bennett is an American singer and actress.
Bennett was born and raised in Naples, Florida. Bennett
began high school at Stow-Munroe Falls High School in Stow,
Ohio and later studied music and acting while attending
Barron Collier High School. She and her mother moved to Los
Angeles, California to pursue her career in the summer of
2005 during her senior year.
Bennett 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 movie. "Invincible" can only be heard during
the end credits, and is only a minute and a half long.
She has signed a three-picture deal with Warner Brothers
Pictures and has finished filming her second movie College.
Bennett is soon to star in a film called The Haunting of
Molly Hartley (2008), playing the lead role.
She appeared in the February 2007 issue of GQ in the
GQ/Features section.
In 2007, 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.
Haley Bennett performed her first live concert at The Mint
in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 19, 2008.
Bennett appeared in the October issue of Teen Vouge in the
Young Hollywood section.
She is dating male model Rick Malambri who is signed to New
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Other
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Has said she enjoyed the challenge of playing Cora Corman in
Music & Lyrics but that when she does produce her own music
it will be very different from that of her fictional
character.
Has said she is not planning to do horror movies and does
not even look at the scripts for them.
She has been acting since she was 10, doing school plays and
other similar things.
She loves Mexican food.
Was asked to drop 10 pounds for the role of Cora Corman even
though she was already very thin. |
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since September 16, 2008