Haley Lu Richardson

Haley Lu Richardson: biography

Haley Lu Richardson is a young American actress appreciated by many critics; they predict she will be nominated for the Academy Awards one day. The audience remembers her for the role of Krista in the comedy drama The Edge of Seventeen, Claire in the thriller Split, and Stella in the melodrama Five Feet Apart. The artist’s acting is natural and sincere.

Childhood and youth

Haley Lu Richardson was born on March 7, 1995, in Phoenix, Arizona. The girl’s father, Forrest, worked as a golf course architect; the mother was a marketing manager. Haley was the only child in the family.

Young Richardson was fond of dances and gymnastics; she also joined the school theater. Although the girl played only secondary characters, the parents attended all the performances.

The future celebrity made up her mind to become a professional actress as a middle-school student. She drew a large poster with the advantages and disadvantages of this job to show how serious her intentions were. The next week, 16-year-old Haley and her mother went to Los Angeles, where the opportunities to gain fame were most available.

Movies

The first year in Los Angeles was marked with acting classes; Richardson also found an agency and began to audition. Thanks to her dancing skills, she became an extra in Shake It Up and Up in Arms.

In 2014, the young woman debuted in the low-budget horror The Last Survivors and played courageous Kendal. As Haley mentioned in her interview later, she felt she was moving in the right direction, even though it was hard to be responsible for the character whose influence on the plot was significant.

The next year, Richardson personified a promising gymnast Maggie Townsend in the sports drama The Bronze. She did not have many expectations at first: the actress went to the auditions half an hour later than scheduled and read a monolog short of breath. The casting director liked the interpretation: he believed Haley had exhausted herself on purpose to look more like an athlete.

2016 was a milestone year for Richardson: she participated in the series Recovery Road and had two important roles in Split (one of three hostages) and The Edge of Seventeen. The 2017 drama Columbus brought the nomination for Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actress. Further on, one could see the actress in Chris Weitz’s biographical drama Operation Finale and Michael Engler’s The Chaperone where the woman played the main character, Louise Brooks.

Personal life

Haley began to date her colleague, Brett Dier, in 2014; they are happy together now.

Four years later, the artist told journalists she made the “offer he [Dier] could not refuse”. It happened in a shopping center where the lovers had a pizza. The couple had no real rings and used pieces of a vining plant instead. Of course, they got real rings later, but the first spur-of-the-moment set is still stored as a memory.

Haley and her future husband are cheerful people: one can see many photos and videos where they fool around on Instagram. Besides, Richardson shares pictures in a swimsuit. Her height is 5.15 feet (157 cm.), and her weight is 105.82 lbs. (48 kg.).

Present days

The melodrama Five Feet Apart starring Richardson was premiered in 2019. It is a story about two teenage lovers, Stella and Will, who have cystic fibrosis. They cannot get closer than five feet to each other because of the infection risk.

Haley and her stage partner Cole Sprouse showed elevated feelings without a single touch; they looked so natural on the screen that both the director and the audience were astonished.

Today, the artist develops her knitted clothes and accessories line Hooked by Haley Lu and prepares for the future life with her husband.

Haley Lu Richardson’s net worth is $300 000 in 2019.

Filmography

• 2013 – Shake It Up
• 2014 – The Last Survivors
• 2014 – Awkward
• 2015 – The Bronze
• 2016 – Split
• 2016 – The Edge of Seventeen
• 2017 – Columbus
• 2018 – Operation Finale
• 2018 - The Chaperone
• 2019 – Five Feet Apart