 In 2002, Hale began auditioning in New York City and launched her professional acting career with a day-playing role on soap opera "All My Children".Her claim to fame was in 2003, playing Marta, the giggly, blonde back-up singer with the pigtail braids, in Richard Linklater's "School of Rock".In 2013, she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Public Relations from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.