Dawn of Haley Bennett Haley Bennett (born Haley Loraine Keeling; January 7, 1988) is an American singer and actress. Bennett was born in Fort Myers, Florida . Birth name Haley Keeling , the daughter of Leilani Dorsey Bennett and Ronald Keeling . She was raised in Naples , Florida . She and her father had to move to Ohio after her parents got divorced and Haley started her academic journey in Stow Ohio at Lakeview Intermediate , Kimpton Middle School and Stow-Monroe Falls High School, Ohio at the age 10 . She later studied music and acting while attending Barron Collier High School and again attended Barbizon School for modeling and acting . In one of her interviews , she revealed that she always felt like an social outcast ,and how her childhood as “nomadic’ , as she moved between living with father in Ohio and mother in Florida. She got to spend her childhood with both her parents simultaneously but separately as they got divorced and lived separately . During senior year , when she turned 18 ,she persuaded her mother to take her to Los Angeles , California to pursue Haley’s career as actor for 3 months in 2005. First Bennett made film debut as the pop star Cora Corman in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) . She sang several songs for the film’s soundtrack . Bennett’s popular were “Budhha’s Delight” and “Way Back into Love” and sang some parts of “Entering Bootytown” and “Slam”. Haley first appeared in the GQ/Features Section, she also signed with 550 Music/NuSound Record (Epic Records) in the same year. And began working on her album , even though one of it was never released. Bennett even performed in her first live concert at The Mint in Lose Angeles on June of 2008. She said in an interview in 2016 . She had come an long way from where she started , everyone have their own journey and all goal and she didn’t really know how common her ’s . She came in LA with no solid plans and goals but it worked out for her and the talent she had. She added no one from her family even got out of California but she made it up to there with her passion. She learned about the talents and wonders Los Angeles hold but were not being placed in the proper, and when the odds are stacked against one it is harder to compete. It was her third audition and that’s when she won the role in her first debut romantic comedy Music and lyrics. She expressed the gratitude towards the role she got to play and experience she got in the movie but she expressed that she wanted more. After that film, even though she gained a lot of publicity and fame from the film , she to struggled her way for other roles . Bennett was often introduced as a natural talent who established herself in the world of Hollywood independently with her hard work .