Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Peabody Award and a Billboard Music Award. She has also garnered nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Steinfeld had her breakthrough with the western film True Grit (2010), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. 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) and the coming-of-age film The Edge of Seventeen (2016), the latter of which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Her highest-grossing release came with the Transformers film Bumblebee (2018).

Steinfeld has voiced multiple animated characters including Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in the Spider-Verse franchise, most recently in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and Vi in the Netflix series Arcane (2021–present). In television, she portrayed Emily Dickinson in the Apple TV comedy-drama series Dickinson (2019–2021), and Kate Bishop in the Disney series Hawkeye (2021).

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.

Steinfeld's father is Jewish and her mother is Christian. Her maternal grandfather, Ricardo Domasin, was half Filipino (from Panglao, Bohol) and half African-American. Steinfeld was raised in Agoura Hills and later in Thousand Oaks, California, attending Ascension Lutheran School, Conejo Elementary and Colina Middle School. She was home-schooled from 2008 until her high school graduation in June 2015.