Trivia

Is a skilled ventriloquist.

She was so impressed with the first season of Gương Đen (2011) that she approached the producers herself and was subsequently offered Martha in Be Right Back (2013).

She was Head Girl of her high school and played rugby up until age 18.

Good friends with Emma Thompson and Chris Evans.

She left a university degree course in Philosophy and Theology in order to train in Theater.

She met Stanley Tucci on the set of Captain America: Kẻ Báo Thù Đầu Tiên (2011) and remains good friends with him and his wife, Felicity Blunt.

She enjoys pranking her co-stars and once filled one's dressing room with hundreds of plastic balls.

On June 2nd, 2015, threw the first pitch of a Kansas City Royals home game. The pitch was a strike.

She has been nominated for two Olivier Awards for her stage work and a Golden Globe for Pillars of the Earth.

Her first on-screen role was in a Pringles TV commercial.

Counts Bette Davis as a major acting influence.

Admits that the toughest word to pronounce with an American accent is "murderer." Brits tend to soften the letter 'R' as in 'muh-d'ruh.

During her performance of Sylvia in the play The Pride, Hayley had to change from a 1950's housewife to a modern-day career woman in a 6-second costume change that involved 3 dressers hidden in the wings.

Her stage debut was in Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound, with David Oyelowo whom she still considers a friend and mentor.

At age 8, she became a committed vegetarian after seeing Loyd Grossman put a live lobster into boiling water.

Studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2002-2005), where she got a BA in Acting.

Has the same birthday as her Lọ Lem (2015) co-star, Lily James, who is 7 years her junior; coincidentally both actresses are alumni from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Once, while on stage at the RSC, she noticed that her gym bra had accidentally attached itself to her costume. She promptly unhooked it and had to use it as a handkerchief for the duration of the scene.

Her film debut was directed by Woody Allen, 8 months after she left drama school.

As a teenager, she went on anti-vivisection and Free the Dolphins marches.

At age 9, she walked over hot coals at a 'Power Into Action' workshop that she attended with her mother.

Only child and daughter of Grant Atwell, whose Native American name is Star Touches Earth (b. Missouri, of part Native American descent), a Shaman, and wife Allison Cain (b. London, Middlesex, England, Great-Britain and Northern-Ireland, of English and Irish descent). Her parents separated when she was age two. Maternal granddaughter of William D. Cain (b. Preston, Lancashire, England, Great-Britain and Northern-Ireland) (son of Arthur P. Cain and wife Florence Dawson) and wife ....

While shooting Lọ Lem (2015), Hayley had her eyebrows bleached to match the blonde wig she wears in the movie. As she was performing in the stage play The Pride at the time, she would have to rush from the set to the theater in the evenings and color her eyebrows with mascara.