Hailee Steinfeld

At age 14, Hailee Steinfeld emerged as a breakout star with her poignant Academy Award®-nominated performance in 2010's True Grit.

In 2015, Steinfeld starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Alba in the Brett Ratner-produced feature Barely Lethal. The film centers around 16-year-old Megan (Steinfeld), who is an international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence.

Steinfeld appeared in Daniel Barber's The Keeping Room, with Brit Marling. The drama explores the story of two sisters and a slave who are forced to defend their Southern home against soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army. The film debuted at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Steinfeld made her Sundance Film Festival debut in January 2015 with Ten Thousand Saints, opposite Ethan Hawke and Emile Hirsch. The coming-of-age story set in the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1980s follows three screwed-up young people and their equally screwed-up parents. The film was directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman and produced by Anne Carey and Amy Nauiokas for Archer Gray Productions, Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray for Maven Pictures, and Luca Borghese.

In 2014, Steinfeld starred in Universal Pictures' Term Life, opposite Vince Vaughn, Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. The film, based on the graphic novel by A.J. Lieberman and Nick Thornborrow, follows Nick Barrow (Vaughn) as he plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but finds himself hunted by mob bosses, contract killers and dirty cops. To help his estranged daughter, Cate (Steinfeld), he takes out a life insurance policy on himself with her as the beneficiary.

In November 2014. Steinfeld starred in The Homesman, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank. The film tells the story of a man (Jones) who teams up with a pioneer woman (Swank) to escort three women across the prairie back to civilization. The film was released by Roadside Attractions.

Steinfeld starred in John Carney's Begin Again, opposite Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. The music-centered story follows Gretta (Knightley), who moves with her longtime boyfriend to New York but is heartbroken when he dumps her for fame and fortune. Steinfeld played Violet, the daughter of Ruffalo's character. Begin Again premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was released by The Weinstein Company on July 11, 2014.

Steinfeld's other more recent films include Hateship Loveship, opposite Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig and Nick Nolte; 3 Days to Kill, opposite Kevin Costner; the 2013 screen version of William Shakespeare's classic Romeo & Juliet; and Ender's Game, opposite Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley.

In 2010, Steinfeld was chosen over 15,000 actresses for the role of Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit, opposite Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. Steinfeld's performance garnered her universal acclaim and dozens of film critics' awards, including the BFCA, Chicago Film Critics Association, Toronto Film Critics Association and Vancouver Film Critics Circle. In addition to her Oscar® nomination, Steinfeld received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Steinfeld was the face of Miuccia Prada's Miu Miu campaign in fall 2011 and was named one of Time magazine's 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013. Also in 2013, she was honored with the Female Star of Tomorrow Award at the CinemaCon Awards and the Max Mara Face of the Future Award at the annual Women in Film gala.

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