Early life

Hallee was born at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Deborah, a naval officer, and Mike Hirsh, a Marine officer. (Coincidentally, Hirsh would find herself acting on the naval-based show JAG, as Matilda "Mattie" Grace Johnson, for 17 episodes.) She started acting when she was 3, with her older brother Greg.

Being a military family, they moved a lot, starting in Pensacola, Florida, where Hallee landed her first role after her first audition in Orlando for Disney's Big Red Boat cruise line. When she was 4, her mom was transferred to Long Island, and Hallee began taking the train into Manhattan after school to audition almost daily, landing roles such as Annabel Fox in You've Got Mail.

After her agent Abby Bluestone moved to Los Angeles, Hallee at age 11 and her family followed, with her mom getting re-stationed in Monterey, California. Hallee lived in the Oakwood Toluca Hills apartment complex - alongside other notable child stars such as Hilary Duff - with her dad, which she has referred to as "an important part of her life".

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA in 2011, majoring in anthropology and Chinese.

Career

She first portrayed Rachel Greene in the 2001-2002 season of ER in a storyline where a now teenage and rebellious Rachel leaves her mom in St. Louis to be with her father, Mark Greene, with whom she feuds but eventually they reconcile before Mark succumbs to brain cancer at the end of the 8th season. Hirsh later reprises her role in 2004 in the season 10 episode "Midnight", visiting her stepmother Dr. Elizabeth Corday, introducing her new boyfriend and seeking birth control pills. In the ER series finale, aired April 2, 2009, entitled "And in the End", Hirsh's character returned as a candidate interviewing for medical school, bringing the Greene family history full circle.

Following her turns on ER and JAG, she starred in the award winning Discovery Kids Channel teen series, Flight 29 Down. Often billed as a Lost for teens, the three season series followed a group of teens surviving on a deserted island after a charter flight they were travelling aboard crash landed.

She is the recipient of two Youth in Film Young Artist Awards and was nominated for best acting awards for four other roles. She was nominated for Best Comedic Actress in a Feature Film at the 2009 Method Fest film festival for her work in 16 to Life and won Best Actress for same role and film at both the 2010 Tunis International Film Festival and the 2010 Alaska International Film Festival.

Personal life

She married Ryan Martin in 2013 and they have one son together, born May 29, 2014. At the end of 2014, the family relocated from Los Angeles to Asheville, North Carolina.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Loving	Heather Rose Forbes #2	Television series - 20 episodes 1993-1995
1994	Saturday Night Live	Caroline Giuliani	Episode "Nancy Kerrigan/Aretha Franklin"
1996	All My Children	Little Girl	Television series
1997	Norville and Trudy	Bobbie Kockenlocker
	Lolita	Little Girl
	What the Deaf Man Heard	Young Tallasse	Television movie
1998	Carson's Vertical Suburbia	Penelope	Television pilot
	One True Thing	Ellen - age 8
	Saint Maybe	Young Agatha
	You've Got Mail	Annabelle Fox	Tom Hanks's character's 8 year old aunt
	Law & Order	Gillian Lanetti	Episode "Grief"
1999		Jenny Brandt	Episode "Killerz"
	The Snooker Report	Shanna Levine	Television series
	LateLine	Jennifer Karp	Episode "Kids 'N' Guns"
	Spring Forward	Hope
2000	Joe Gould's Secret	Nora Mitchell
	The Ultimate Christmas Present	Allie Thompson	Television movie
	Judging Amy	Jodi Larson Pruitt	Episodes "Shaken, Not Stirred" & "Dog Days"
2001	ER	Rachel Greene	16 episodes, 2001-2009
	The Gene Pool	Dina Fineman	Television pilot
	Malcolm in the Middle	Jessica	Episode "Traffic Jam"
	Family Law	Katie Pollack	Episode "Obligations"
	Taking Back Our Town	Catherine Melancon	Television movie
2002	My Sister's Keeper	Young Judy Chapman	Television movie
	The American Embassy	Liv Faulkner	Episode "Pilot"
	Incest	Liz
	The Young and the Restless	Abby	Television series
	Manna from Heaven	Young Theresa
	The Guardian	Andrea Caffe	Episode "The Innocent"
2004	Speak	Rachel Bruin
	Six Feet Under	Kaitlin Elise Stolte	Episode "Parallel Play"
	Will & Grace	Olivia Walker	Episode "Christmas Break"
2005	Happy Endings	Mamie at 17
	JAG	Mattie Grace Johnson	17 Episodes, 2003-2005
	Nip/Tuck	Madison Berg	Episode "Madison Berg"
2006	Grey's Anatomy	Claire	Episode "Losing My Religion"
			Episode "Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response"
	Wild Hearts	Madison	Television movie
	Without a Trace	Malia Norton	Episode "All For One"
2007	Flight 29 Down: The Hotel Tango	Daley Marin	Television movie
	Boston Legal	Michelle Cabot-Levinson
	Flight 29 Down	Daley Marin	27 episodes, 2005-2007
	Cold Case	Tina Quinn '98	Episode "That Woman"
2008	Ghost Whisperer	Amy Benzing	Episode "Home But Not Alone"
	Saving Grace	Sophie Ward	Episode "It's a Fierce, White-Hot, Mighty Love"
	90210	Hannah Vasquez	Episodes "The Jet Set" and "We're Not in Kansas Anymore"
2009	Make the Yuletide Gay	Abby Mancuso
	Criminal Minds	Carol	Episode "Cradle to Grave"
	Private Practice	Melissa - the Bride	Episode "The Hard Part"
	16 to Life	Kate
2010	Fading of the Cries	Sarah
2012	Sloppy Tacos	Berri	4 episodes, 2012-2014
2013	Bad Behavior	Zoe
	Hidden Away	Amy	Television movie
2014	Infiltrators	Micki Thorne
2016	Chasing the Rain	Vanessa	Post Production

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