Haley Bennett is a talented actress with a captivating presence, consistently establishing herself as one of Hollywood's most dynamic performers.
Upcoming, she will star alongside Austin Stowell in Carlo Mirabella-Davis's SWALLOW, serving as an executive producer on the project. Bennett plays Hunter, a pregnant young housewife whose seemingly perfect life takes a drastic turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects. The film premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, garnering massive critical acclaim, including Bennett's award for Best Actress. SWALLOW also appeared at the 2019 Deauville Film Festival, where it received the Prix spécial du 45E and was nominated for the Grand Special Prize. IFC Films will release the film in March 2020.
Following this, Bennett will be seen in Ron Howard's HILLBILLY ELEGY for Netflix, alongside Amy Adams and Glenn Close. The film is based on J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir, which follows three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale law student 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 notable film credits include THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT 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.
