Hailee Steinfeld

Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough with the western film True Grit (2010), which earned her various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Following appearances in Ender's Game and Begin Again (both 2013), she gained wider recognition for her roles in the Pitch Perfect film series (2015–2017), the coming-of-age film The Edge of Seventeen (2016), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and the Transformers spin-off film Bumblebee (2018). Steinfeld has voiced multiple animated characters including Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), and Vi in the Netflix series Arcane (2021–present). She has also portrayed Emily Dickinson in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama series Dickinson (2019–2021), and Kate Bishop in the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021). Steinfeld will reprise her voice acting role as Gwen Stacy in the upcoming animated films Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and Spider-Woman. Steinfeld gained recognition in music after performing "Flashlight" in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015). She signed with Republic Records soon after and released her debut single, "Love Myself", followed by her debut EP Haiz (2015). She went on to release a series of successful singles, including "Starving", "Most Girls" and "Let Me Go". In 2020, she released her second EP, Half Written Story. Early life Steinfeld was born in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the younger of two children of Cheri (née Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal trainer. She has an older brother, Griffin. Her paternal uncle is fitness trainer and actor Jake Steinfeld, and her maternal great uncle is former child actor Larry Domasin. Her maternal first cousin, actress True O'Brien, appeared in a television commercial when Steinfeld was eight years old, inspiring her to try acting as well.