7 things to know about Hailee Steinfeld, star of Marvel’s Hawkeye, Taylor Swift’s BFF, Miu Miu model and Oscar nominee for True Grit at age 14

Nov 30 , 2021

Hailee Steinfeld plays Kate Bishop in Marvel series Hawkeye. Photo: @haileesteinfeld/Instagram

Her pop songs made Billboard charts and she’s in Swift’s squad of A-listers with Selena Gomez, Sarah Hyland, Lena Dunham, Lorde, Gigi Hadid and Camila Cabello

She was a Miu Miu muse like Katie Holmes, Evan Rachel Wood, Vanessa Paradis and Lindsay Lohan, and followed her older cousin True O’Brien into Hollywood

Now airing on Disney+, Hawkeye is a new Marvel TV series that sits within the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, connecting with events in the film franchise. Beside telling us more about the hero Clint Barton, played by Jeremy Renner, it also explains the ties between him and fan Kate Bishop, who has spent her whole life honing her archery skills to eventually take over the mantle of Hawkeye.

Bishop is played by actress Hailee Steinfeld, who you probably already recognize from True Grit or from the fashion runway. Here’s everything you need to know about the young star …

She has Asian roots

Hailee Steinfeld is very proud of her Filipino heritage. Photo: @haileesteinfeld/Instagram

Hailee Steinfeld was born in 1996 to a Jewish father and a mother whose background is European, Filipino and African American, per EthniCelebs.

In particular, she is very proud of her Filipino heritage and felt at home when she visited the country, she told Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP): “One thing I learned very early on about Filipinos is how much passion there is, how much pride there is being Filipino and as little as there is [of that blood] in me, I really do feel so connected to the culture … It’s so incredibly important that I can come somewhere so far from home and feel like I’m home.”

She started out as a child star

Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit. Photo: Paramount Pictures