Hailey Nicole R.

Hailey Nicole Ralston is an ambitious, driven, young adult who engulfs those around her with infectious positive energy. She has enjoyed acting roles in TV, film, commercials, and made her filmmaking debut at age 15, having written, directed, edited, and starred in her first short, “The Creature,” in April 2020. This was soon followed by an original feature film, “Hollow’s Ridge,” in November 2021, recently pitched to Amazon Prime Video. At age 15, Hailey was cast as her first co-starring role on HBO series, “The Righteous Gemstones.” This young actor worked alongside comedic greats John Goodman (Monster’s Inc.), Danny McBride (Eastbound And Down), and Adam Devine (Pitch Perfect). Continuing her newly entered career, Hailey made her major motion picture debut the same year as her streaming series, as the supporting role of Tammy Faye Baker’s niece, working opposite Jessica Chastain (IT) and Andrew Garfield (SpiderMan) and in “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye.” This Oscar award-winning film premiered in theaters and later moved onto numerous streaming platforms. Over the next 2 years, this young actress continued to thrive on TV and film sets back-to-back. In 2021, she filmed a co-starring role on a Nickelodeon pilot episode of “California Dreaming” as well as a Netflix movie-musical entitled “Something Here,” working alongside Owen Joyner (Julie And The Phantoms), and Savannah Lee Smith (Gossip Girl). In 2022, Hailey enjoyed her first supporting role, working with actors Ethan Hawke (Dead Poets Society), Mason Thames (The Black Phone), and Madeleine McGraw (Secrets Of Sulphur Springs) in the highly anticipated horror film, “The Black Phone.” Her most recent job was a supporting role in TV One’s “Never Would Have Made It, The Marvin Sapp Story.” This “booking machine” has 15 short films as well as a handful of commercials, music videos, and documentaries to her credit. She was welcomed to the performing arts world at age two where she took all genres of dance, gymnastics, cheerleading, and ice skating. At age eight, she took interest in voice and instrument (cello, violin, viola, guitar, piano, ukulele) lessons. Performances for Carnegie Hall and The Biltmore Estate lined up by age nine. Still aspiring for more arts in her life, Hailey began training for musical theater and landed lead roles such as Annie in “Annie, The Musical” and Wendy Darling in “Peter Pan,” by age 10. Hailey fills her non-acting life with training for a BFA in Cinema And Television Arts at Elon University and taking on the role of Director of the Morale & Entertainment Committee on Elonthon’s Executive Board. In her freetime, she enjoys music - composing original songs in the moment and singing along to piano and ukulele, learning Spanish, French, and American Sign Language, as well as volunteering in Special Needs and Foster Animal Communities. She was recently nominated for three Young Entertainer Awards (results tbd).