Haley Louise Jones was born on February 23, 1989, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in Cape Town and later in Koblenz, Germany. After graduating high school in 2009, she completed acting training at the Film Acting School in Cologne until 2011. She made her television debut with a supporting role in the series "Notruf Hafenkante" (2012), followed by a lead role as the unsuspecting girlfriend of a terrorist in the Leipzig "Tatort" episode "Schwarzer Afghane" (2013). In 2015, she had a major role as a forensic technician alongside Tom Beck in the TV crime drama "Einstein." Due to its success, the show was turned into the series "Einstein" (2017-2019), in which Jones reprised her role. Between 2016 and 2020, she also appeared in a recurring role as an insurance employee in the crime series "Professor T." Alongside her acting career, Haley Louise Jones completed a bachelor's degree in business administration from 2016 to 2019. 

In the following years, Jones took on guest roles in the series "SOKO Köln" (2020), "SOKO Potsdam" (2021), and "SOKO Leipzig" (2022). Starting in 2023, she became a regular cast member as a nurse in the hospital series "Dr. Ballouz." She also had supporting roles in TV movies such as "Ein Sommer in Antwerpen," "Ein Wahnsinnstag" (2022), and "Das Weihnachtsschnitzel" (2022). 

On the big screen, Haley Louise Jones played a lead role in the award-winning film "Ivie wie Ivie" ("Precious Ivie", 2021), about an Afro-German woman who travels with her previously unknown sister to Senegal, their father's birthplace, and begins to question her self-image. In the children's film "Alfons Zitterbacke – Endlich Klassenfahrt!" ("Alfons Jitterbit - Class Trip Chaos!", 2022), she played a teacher. She had smaller roles in Fabian Stumm's relationship drama "Knochen und Namen" ("Bones and Names", 2023) and in the dystopian science-fiction thriller "Paradise" (2023). 

Jones starred in the critically acclaimed Netflix miniseries "Liebes Kind" ("Dear Child", 2023) as a police officer investigating the case of a woman missing for many years, who uncovers a deranged serial killer. Again under the direction of and alongside Fabian Stumm, Jones played a lead role in "Sad Jokes" (2024), as a mother pulled out of her daily life by growing depression. She took on another lead role as a doctor in "KraNK Berlin" (airing at the end of 2024), set in the chaotic and exhausting environment of a hospital in Berlin-Neukölln (short: KraNK).