Born in Beckley, WV and raised in Farmville, VA and Charlotte, NC.  She is the older sister to her two best friends Christian and Anne Catlett.  Halee-Catherine currently resides in New York City. 

Halee-Catherine always has had a flair for the dramatic since her debut as Flopsy Bunny in the "Peter Rabbit Easter Play" at Prince Edward Academy (now Fuqua School) in 1991. 

Since then, she has cultivated her talent attending West Virginia University and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Halee-Catherine is a founding member of Sponge Theatricals.  She currently studies voice with the fabulous Susan Eichhorn Young and Improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade.

Halee-Catherine is an alumna of Alpha Xi Delta sorority and a member of the America's Junior Miss Foundation, the North Carolina's Junior Miss Alumni Association, and the American Diabetes Association NYC Walk Board, having been diagnosed with the disease at age 14.

She is the reigning Ms. New York American Image 2009.