Hailee Steinfeld (born: December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer.
Career[]
Acting[]
She made a breakthrough with the 2010 western drama True Grit, which led to nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as Best Actress for the BAFTA Award. Steinfeld then gained widespread recognition for her leading performances in the 2013 films Ender's Game, Romeo & Juliet, Begin Again, and 3 Days to Kill (2014). She received praise from critics for her performances in the Pitch Perfect movie series (2015–2017) and the coming-of-age comedy–drama The Edge of Seventeen (2016), for which she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and the Golden Globe.
Since then, Steinfeld has lent her voice to the animated movies Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman (2018) and Vi in Netflix's Arcane (2020–present), both of which are based on the League of Legends video game series. Additionally, she played Charlie Watson in the 2018 Transformers movie Bumblebee and Emily Dickinson in the comedy-drama series Dickinson on Apple TV+ (2019–2021). In the 2021 Disney+ series Hawkeye, which is based in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she portrayed Kate Bishop / Hawkeye.
Music[]
After singing "Flashlight" in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Steinfeld became well-known in the music industry. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Republic Records and released her first single, "Love Myself," followed by her debut extended play, "Haiz" (2015). Her subsequent successful singles included "Starving," "Most Girls," and "Let Me Go." Her second extended play, "Half Written Story", was published in 2020.