[3] Hale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005[2] with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level)[4] and has performed on both stage and screen.
[2] She was also nominated for two Evening Standard Theatre Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer[5] and Best Actress[6]) in November 2007[7] for her critically acclaimed[8] performance as Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre in London.
[9] In September 2009, Hale made her Royal National Theatre debut in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek,[10] and in October 2009, she appeared alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small in the new three-part ITV1 drama Murderland.
[11] In April 2011, she appeared as Agnes Rackham in the BBC adaptation The Crimson Petal and the White with co-star Romola Garai.
In the same year, she starred as Elinor Dashwood in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.