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name: "Haley Lu Richardson"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 March 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T12:48:45.825880+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Haley Lu Richardson

Actor. Born 7 March 1995 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 March 1995, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Haley Richardson
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haley_Lu_Richardson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16236978, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4726634/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1286328

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Columbus*](https://film.one/film/columbus.md) (82)

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## Fi1m on Haley Lu Richardson

> Haley Lu Richardson plays people who have learned to seem fine. In *Columbus* she made a library assistant reciting guidebook facts one of the best young performances we have seen in years; nothing since has given her a part as good, though not for want of trying.

Casey stands in front of a building in Columbus, Indiana, and tells a visitor when it was built and who designed it and why it matters. She is fluent and bright and slightly too quick, and when he asks her what she thinks, she goes quiet. That is the thing Haley Lu Richardson does that most young actors do not. She plays the business of seeming fine so well that we notice the effort only when it stops.

*Columbus* (2017) was Kogonada's first film and her breakthrough. Before it she had done television from 2013 and supporting film parts in 2016, among them *The Edge of Seventeen* and *Split*, parts in other people's stories. Kogonada gave her a whole film of walking and talking and trusted her to carry half of it, and she carried more than half; our review found Jin's side of the story the thinner one. We were moved by her more than the film's stillness seemed to allow, and it was a small thing that did it: the way she recites the facts about each building with practised ease and then has nothing rehearsed to say about herself.

Since then the career has gone two ways at once. There is the mainstream work, *Five Feet Apart* (2019), and there is the smaller, more collaborative sort she seems to prefer: *Support the Girls* (2018), *Unpregnant* (2020), and *After Yang* (2022), which took her back to Kogonada for a second film. Then *The White Lotus* (2022), in which she played Portia, brought her far more attention than any of the films had, and a character audiences argued about. We have not reviewed those, so we will not judge them here, except to note that the notices keep saying the same thing: warmth, naturalism, a habit of turning parts that read flat on the page into full people.

That is a real gift and it is also a hazard. An actress who can make a thin character breathe will keep being handed thin characters, on the assumption she will do the work the script did not. She has said she has "retired from playing teenagers", which is the right instinct, and *Ponies*, a series due in 2026, will show whether the parts have grown with her. What we would like is another director who does what Kogonada did: put her in front of something she loves and let the camera wait for the moment she stops talking.

## Biography

Haley Lu Richardson is an American actress. Born on 7 March 1995 in Phoenix, Arizona, she began her career with early television roles in the Disney Channel sitcom *Shake It Up* (2013) and the ABC Family series *Ravenswood* (2013–2014).

She gained recognition for supporting parts in the films *The Edge of Seventeen* (2016) and *Split* (2017). Richardson received a nomination for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actress for her lead performance as Casey in the independent drama *Columbus* (2017). Subsequent roles include *Support the Girls* (2018), *Five Feet Apart* (2019), *After Yang* (2022) and the series *The White Lotus* (2021–2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The White Lotus* (2021), Fi1m 85, as Portia — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-white-lotus.md)
- *Columbus* (2017), Fi1m 82, as Casey — [page](https://film.one/film/columbus.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die* (2026), as Ingrid
- *Zi* (2026), as Elle, Producer
- *PONIES* (2026), series, Twila, Writer
- *Love at First Sight* (2023), as Hadley Sullivan, Executive Producer
- *Montana Story* (2022), as Erin
- *After Yang* (2022), as Ada
- *The White Lotus* (2021), series, as Portia — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-white-lotus.md)
- *Unpregnant* (2020), as Veronica Clarke
- *The Chaperone* (2019), as Louise Brooks
- *Five Feet Apart* (2019), as Stella Grant
- *Operation Finale* (2018), as Sylvia Hermann
- *Support the Girls* (2018), as Maci
- *Columbus* (2017), as Casey — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/columbus.md)
- *Split* (2017), as Claire Benoit
- *The Edge of Seventeen* (2016), as Krista
- *Recovery Road* (2016), series, as Ellie Dennis
- *The Bronze* (2016), as Maggie Townsend
- *Follow* (2015), as Viv
- *The Young Kieslowski* (2014), as Leslie Mallard
- *The Last Survivors* (2014), as Kendal
- *Ravenswood* (2013), series, as Tess
- *Escape from Polygamy* (2013), as Julina
- *Christmas Twister* (2012), as Kaitlyn
- *Meanamorphosis* (2012), as Cameron
- *Awkward.* (2011), series, as Mackenzie
- *Shake It Up* (2010), series, as Shake It Up Dancer
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Jenna Davis

## Gallery

- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-c1c96cbe745b.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Haley_Lu_Richardson-4107.jpg/1280px-Haley_Lu_Richardson-4107.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Berlin Film Festival 2026](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-e890015e5807.jpg) Berlin Film Festival 2026 — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230084%29.jpg/1280px-Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230084%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Gore Verbinski, cast members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Asim Chaudhry, and producer Robert Kulzer at the press co (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-84129f308cd6.jpg) Director Gore Verbinski, cast members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Asim Chaudhry, and producer Robert Kulzer at the press co (2026) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Good_Luck%2C_Have_Fun%2C_Don%27t_Die_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-4442.jpg/1280px-Good_Luck%2C_Have_Fun%2C_Don%27t_Die_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-4442.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Gore Verbinski, cast members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Asim Chaudhry, and producer Robert Kulzer at the press co (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-f64019d34885.jpg) Director Gore Verbinski, cast members Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Michael Peña and Asim Chaudhry, and producer Robert Kulzer at the press co (2026) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Good_Luck%2C_Have_Fun%2C_Don%27t_Die_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-4442_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Good_Luck%2C_Have_Fun%2C_Don%27t_Die_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-4442_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-d9b6a666774e.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Image via TMDB
- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-bc047147a86e.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Image via TMDB
- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-5cd968922070.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Image via TMDB
- ![Photo of Richardson (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-fc5226f09ec6.jpg) Photo of Richardson (2021) — Vvaliquette, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/HR-1.jpg/1280px-HR-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Haley Lu Richardson at the premiere of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-a8434fb5a2dc.jpg) Actress Haley Lu Richardson at the premiere of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Haley_Lu_Richardson-4077.jpg/1280px-Haley_Lu_Richardson-4077.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-8fdc2a4a0114.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Image via TMDB
- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-8c2cf512a5f3.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Image via TMDB
- ![Haley Lu Richardson](https://film.one/media/person/381317/gallery-f0448874d698.jpg) Haley Lu Richardson — Image via TMDB

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