Hailey Marie Livingston is an American actress and screenwriter, born and raised in the city of Los Angeles. She is the daughter of actor Barry Livingston and physical therapist Karen Livingston. She has one older brother, musician Spencer Livingston, and has Irish, Russian, and German ancestry. She grew up surrounded by nature, art, music, and film. She spent much of her childhood outdoors in nature, camping and fishing with her family. She attended Millikan Middle school for the performing arts, as well as CHAMPS charter high school for performing arts and dance. In her early years, she had very little interest in acting professionally but began seriously pursing acting and screenwriting in her early twenties. Before Hailey began pursuing a career in the arts, she worked for five years saving lives as an Emergency Dispatcher for Life Alert. More recently, she has studied at the Aaron Speiser acting studio as well as the Eric Morris acting workshop.