Hayley Squires (born 16 April 1988) is an English actress and playwright, best known for her work in the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake.

[1] Squires has also appeared in Call the Midwife (2012), Southcliffe (2013), Complicit (2013), Blood Cells (2014), A Royal Night Out (2015), Murder (2016), Collateral (2018), Adult Material (2020), The Essex Serpent (2022) and Great Expectations (2023).

[4] Born in Forest Hill, South London, as Hayley McGinty in 1988, Squires grew up with her mother, father and older brother.

[6] She trained at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup and graduated in 2010 with BA (Hons) Acting alongside best friend and fellow actor David Carlyle.

[5][7] She has a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream tattooed underneath her left arm; it reads: And though she be but little, she is fierce.