Originally from Hollywood, Florida, but making her way to Los Angeles by her teens, Bethany Joy Lenz is an actress/filmmaker and singer/songwriter best known for the role of Haley on TV's One Tree Hill. She began singing in church in Florida at the age of three, and enrolled in a performing arts school after moving to Arlington, Texas at age seven. Lenz, whose grandfather, George Lenz, was a Broadway musical theater performer, quickly found roles in community theater. She won her first TV-commercial audition on a trip to Los Angeles, and as a child actress earned parts in a ha...