Hailee Steinfeld Biography 2026: Age, Height, Husband Josh Allen, Daughter Harper, Sinners & Net Worth

Hailee Steinfeld (born December 11, 1996) is an American actress and singer whose career began with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination at 14 for the Coen brothers’ True Grit (2010). She has since become a rare two-track star: a leading actress in film and television and a multi-platinum pop recording artist.

In 2025 and 2026 her life changed on two fronts. On screen, she starred opposite Michael B. Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which won the SAG ensemble award in February 2026. Off screen, she married Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen in May 2025 and gave birth to their daughter, Harper Haize Allen, on April 2, 2026. Here is everything to know about her age, height, husband, child, career, and net worth.

Quick Facts

Fans who follow Hailee Steinfeld often also search for Josh Allen, Harper Haize Allen, Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler, Kate Bishop, and Gwen Stacy — her husband, daughter, Sinners co-star and director, and her two most famous characters.

Early Life & Education

Hailee Steinfeld was born on December 11, 1996, in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, the younger of two children of Cheri (née Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal trainer. Her older brother is Griffin. Her paternal uncle is fitness personality and actor Jake Steinfeld, and her maternal first cousin is actress True O’Brien.

Her heritage is unusually layered. Her maternal grandfather, Ricardo Domasin, was half Filipino — from Panglao, Bohol — and half African American. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Christian, and Steinfeld has said she “celebrates it all.” She has spoken about how researching Sinners in 2025 brought her closer to that multi-racial background.

She was raised in Agoura Hills and later Thousand Oaks, attending Ascension Lutheran School, Conejo Elementary, and Colina Middle School. After appearing in a commercial alongside her cousin True O’Brien at age eight, she decided to act. She was homeschooled from 2008 through her high school graduation in June 2015 — a schedule that let her work while studying.

Career Journey

True Grit and an Oscar Nomination (2010–2011)

Steinfeld began acting at ten, appearing in short films including the award-winning She’s a Fox. At 13 she won the role of Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers’ True Grit, beating out roughly 15,000 other candidates. The film opened internationally in December 2010, and Time magazine named her performance one of the ten best of the year.

At 14 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, one of the youngest nominees in the category’s history. She also earned nominations for a BAFTA, a SAG Award, and a Critics’ Choice Award. Within months she was named the new face of Miu Miu — an unusually rapid transition from unknown child actor to fashion muse.

Establishing Herself (2013–2016)

She spent the next several years working constantly: Romeo & Juliet (2013) as Juliet, Ender’s Game (2013) as Petra Arkanian, Begin Again (2013) as Violet, 3 Days to Kill (2014) as Zooey Renner, and The Homesman (2014) as Tabitha Hutchinson. She also voiced Anna Sasaki in the English dub of Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There.

Her visibility exploded with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), where she played Emily Junk, and with her appearance as “The Trinity” in Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood video, which won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. She starred in The Edge of Seventeen (2016) as Nadine Franklin, a performance that earned her a Golden Globe nomination and is still the role her fans cite most often.

Music Career and Franchise Roles (2015–2021)

Her singing began as a plot point in Pitch Perfect 2 — her a cappella performance of “Flashlight” — and became a career of its own. She signed with Republic Records in 2015 and released “Love Myself”, which made the highest debut for a solo female artist on the Pop Songs chart in seventeen years. The EP Haiz followed in November 2015.

“Starving”, her collaboration with Zedd and Grey, became her biggest hit and went multi-platinum across several countries. “Most Girls” and “Let Me Go” (with Alesso, Florida Georgia Line, and Andrew Watt) followed, and she won the 2017 Billboard Music Award for Top Covered Artist.

On screen she played Charlie Watson in Bumblebee (2018) and voiced Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its 2023 sequel. She starred as Emily Dickinson in Apple TV+’s Dickinson (2019–2021), serving as executive producer, voiced Vi in Netflix’s Arcane (2021–2024), and took the lead role of Kate Bishop in Marvel’s Hawkeye (2021).

Sinners, Marriage, and Motherhood (2025–2026)

Steinfeld starred as Mary in Ryan Coogler’s supernatural thriller Sinners (2025), opposite Michael B. Jordan. The film became a critical and commercial event, and its cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in February 2026 — her first SAG win after a nomination fifteen years earlier for True Grit.

Her personal life moved just as fast. She and Josh Allen went public with their relationship in July 2024, became engaged in November 2024, and married in California on May 31, 2025. They announced in December 2025 that they were expecting, and their daughter Harper Haize Allen was born on April 2, 2026.

Her upcoming work includes voicing Billie Doe in Disney’s animated Hexed (2026), reprising Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027), and starring opposite Miles Teller in Paramount’s Winter Games.

Career Stats

• Years Active: 2007–present
• Breakthrough: True Grit (2010) — Oscar, BAFTA, SAG, and Critics’ Choice nominations
• Franchise Roles: Kate Bishop (Hawkeye), Gwen Stacy (Spider-Verse), Vi (Arcane)
• Music: Republic Records; hits include “Love Myself,” “Starving,” “Most Girls,” “Let Me Go”
• 2026 SAG Award: Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture, Sinners
• Upcoming: Hexed (2026), Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027), Winter Games

Personal Life

• Husband: Josh Allen, the Buffalo Bills quarterback. They married on May 31, 2025, in California.
• Daughter: Harper Haize Allen, born April 2, 2026.
• Previous Relationships: She dated Instagram personality Cameron Smoller from 2016 to 2017 and Irish singer Niall Horan from 2017 to 2018.
• Family: Brother Griffin; uncle Jake Steinfeld; cousin True O’Brien. She has said her family is the reason she took acting seriously.
• Faith: Raised with both Jewish and Christian traditions; she has described herself as celebrating both.
• Home: Los Angeles, with time spent in New York for work.

Dating History and Affairs

Steinfeld’s dating history has been public since her teens. She dated Cameron Smoller from 2016 to 2017, then One Direction singer Niall Horan from 2017 to 2018. She has since said that a song on her 2020 EP Half Written Story was the hardest to write because it was about Horan.

She began dating Josh Allen in May 2023. The couple went public in July 2024, announced their engagement in November 2024, and married the following May. Their daughter arrived in April 2026. There have been no reported affairs, breakups after marriage, or relationship scandals.

Controversies

Steinfeld has avoided serious controversy. Her career has been free of legal trouble, on-set incidents, or public feuds. The points that come up periodically are industry-level rather than personal:

• Casting debates: Her casting as Juliet in the 2013 Romeo & Juliet was criticized by some for not being ethnically Italian; the production adjusted the role to be age-appropriate.
• Representation: As a mixed-race actress of Filipino and African American descent, she is occasionally drawn into debates about who gets to play which roles. She has generally answered by focusing on the work.
• Social media presence: Her posts about relationships and politics have occasionally drawn fan backlash, none of it sustained.
• “Love Myself” lyrics: The 2015 single was widely described in the media as an “ode to masturbation,” a framing she has neither confirmed nor denied in detail.

Awards & Achievements

• Academy Award nomination — Best Supporting Actress, True Grit (2011)
• BAFTA, SAG, and Critics’ Choice nominations for True Grit
• Golden Globe nomination — Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, The Edge of Seventeen
• MTV Video Music Award — Video of the Year, Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” (2015)
• Billboard Music Award — Top Covered Artist (2017)
• Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture, Sinners (2026)
• Multiple other critics’ circle awards for True Grit

Physical Statistics

• Height: Not officially confirmed — Wikipedia notes she has been an unreliable source on this, so figures online vary
• Weight: Not publicly disclosed
• Build: Petite and athletic
• Hair Color: Dark brown, frequently changing length and style for roles
• Eye Color: Hazel
• Style: Red-carpet minimalism — structured tailoring, Miu Miu and Prada, and statement jewelry

Favorites

• Franchise: Spider-Verse — she has voiced Gwen Stacy since 2018
• Collaborator: Zedd, on “Starving”
• Role: Kate Bishop, her first Marvel lead
• Influences: Madonna and Rihanna, plus Britney Spears, Tori Kelly, Selena Gomez, Bruno Mars, and Justin Timberlake
• Charity: No Kid Hungry, the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, and Make-A-Wish
• Food, Film, Travel: Not publicly disclosed

Earnings

Steinfeld’s net worth is estimated between $18 million and $25 million, built from film salaries, music sales and touring, and brand partnerships.

• Film salaries across more than two decades, including franchise pay for Spider-Verse and Bumblebee
• Music income — multi-platinum singles and touring with Katy Perry and Charlie Puth
• Endorsements — Prada, Balmain, Louis Vuitton, Reef, and Mission Activewear
• Entrepreneurship — the PrivAc Revaux eyewear line (2018)

Her exact net worth is not public, and estimates vary by source. The range reflects her unusually long career that began in childhood.

Interesting Facts

• She was 13 when cast in True Grit and 14 when she received her Oscar nomination.
• Her mother is a professional interior designer and her father a personal trainer.
• Her maternal grandfather was half Filipino and half African American.
• She was homeschooled from 2008 until her 2015 graduation so she could work.
• She became the face of Miu Miu five months after True Grit opened.
• She won a SAG Award for Sinners in 2026, fifteen years after her first nomination.
• Her daughter’s name, Harper Haize, was revealed in a letter she published in June 2026.
• She launched a newsletter, Beau Society, in 2024.

Did You Know Already?

• She appeared in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” video, which won Video of the Year.
• She voiced Vi in Netflix’s Arcane for its entire three-season run.
• She was an advisor on The Voice and hosted the 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards.
• She performed “Flashlight” in Pitch Perfect 2, which led to her record deal.
• She has been in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Spider-Verse franchise.
• Her Spider-Man sequel is scheduled for 2027.

Social Media Links

• Instagram: @haileesteinfeld
• X (Twitter): @HaileeSteinfeld
• Official Site: haileesteinfeld.com

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Conclusion

Hailee Steinfeld has now spent nearly half her life in front of a camera, moving from a child actress with an Oscar nomination to a Marvel lead, a multi-platinum singer, and — as of 2026 — a wife and mother. Her next chapter will be measured against a very unusual standard: most people never have a career at all, let alone two. If you found this biography helpful, please share it with other fans!