Hailee Steinfeld
Birth Name: Hailee P. Steinfeld
Place of Birth: Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 11, 1996
Ethnicity:
*father – Ashkenazi Jewish
*maternal grandfather – Boholano Filipino, African-American
*maternal grandmother – English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish
Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress, singer, and model. Her roles include the films True Grit (2010), Hateship, Loveship; Begin Again, Romeo & Juliet (2013), Ender’s Game, 3 Days to Kill, The Homesman, The Keeping Room, Ten Thousand Saints, the Pitch Perfect sequels, Barely Lethal, Term Life, The Edge of Seventeen, and Bumblebee, and, in voice performance, When Marnie Was There and the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse trilogy; and the shows Dickinson, Arcane, also in voice-over; and Hawkeye. Musically, she is known for her cover of the song “Flashlight,” and for her songs “Love Myself,” “Starving,” “Most Girls,” and “Let Me Go.”
She is the daughter of Cheryl (Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal trainer.
Her father is originally from a family from New York, and is Ashkenazi Jewish. Hailee’s uncle is fitness specialist and entrepreneur Jake Steinfeld. Hailee’s mother was born in California. Hailee’s maternal grandfather was of half Filipino [Boholano] and half African-American descent. Hailee’s maternal grandmother had English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and Scottish ancestry. A picture of Hailee with her parents and brother can be seen here.
Hailee was raised in Agoura Hills and then Thousand Oaks, California. She is a first cousin of actress and model True O’Brien.
Hailee has stated:
I’ve become more aware of my roots over the years. My grandfather, my mom’s dad, was half African-American, half Filipino. And Filipinos, I’ve learned, have many wonderful traits – the main ones being passion and pride. I went to the Philippines for the first time this spring, and it was amazing. People were like, “We’re related! We’re family.” I actually played three of my own shows there.
Hailee’s great-uncle, the brother of her maternal grandfather, is child actor Larry Domasin. Larry is pictured here and here.
Hailee’s paternal grandfather was Herbert Melvin Steinfeld (the son of Shmuel, later Samuel “Sam,” Steinfeld, and of Brindel Chaimovna Zelenetskaya, later Bessie Ethel Zelensky). Herbert was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Sam was a Romanian Jewish emigrant, from Iași, Iași, and was the son of Hirsch, later Julius, Steinfeld, and of Dweire, later Dora, Schwartz. Bessie was a Belarusian Jewish emigrant, from Romanovo (now Lenino), Slutsk, Minsk, and was the daughter of Chaim Zelenetsky, later Hyman Mendel Zelensky, and of Brize, later Sarah, Cohen.
Hailee’s paternal grandmother is Joy A. Wagner, later Duberstein (the daughter of Arthur Lindemann, later Wagner, and of Minnie, later Myra, Siegel). Joy was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. She adopted the surname Duberstein when her mother remarried. Arthur was the son of Max Lindemann, a German Jewish emigrant, and of Charlotte “Jennie” Wagner, a Ukrainian Jewish emigrant, from Lviv. Hailee’s great-grandmother Minnie was born in Brooklyn, to Russian Jewish parents, Joseph “Joe” Siegel and Fannie Mitnitskaya.
Hailee’s maternal grandfather, Ricardo/Simonas Guillermo Domasin, was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Ricardo’s father, Pastor “Peter” Loresca Domasin, was born, in 1902, in Panglao, Bohol, Central Visayas, Philippines. Pastor was the son of Gerónimo Domasin y Lorejo, or Gerónimo Lorejo Domasin in Filipino, and of Cirila Loresca y Domaluan, or Cirila Domaluan Loresca in Filipino. A picture of Pastor can be seen here.
Ricardo’s mother, Evelyn Olivia Bain, was born in 1910 in Los Angeles; Evelyn was Hailee’s great-grandmother. Evelyn was African-American, and she and her parents, Thomas Edward Bain (born in Kansas, to Gabrel Bain and Isabella/Belle Johnson) and Wilma Frances “Willie” Peterson (born in Arkansas, to William F. Peterson and Nannie Hall), are listed as either African-American or, sometimes, as “half white,” in census records. A picture of Evelyn can be seen here.
Hailee’s maternal grandmother is Laurita Lee Hinkle (the daughter of William Hicks Hinkle and Edith Laurita Jones). Laurita was born in Texas, and had English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and Scottish, ancestry. William was the son of Joshua Madison Hinkle and Ella Malona Payne. Edith was the daughter of Charles Kirby Jones and Ethel Effie Smith.
Hailee’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her fourth great-grandmother, Penelope “Phenina” Watson.
Sources: Genealogies of Hailee Steinfeld – https://www.geni.com
http://gw.geneanet.org
Baptismal record of Hailee’s maternal great-grandfather, Pastor Loresca Domasin – https://familysearch.org
Hailee’s maternal great-grandmother, Evelyn Olivia Bain, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Her mother looks white
http://www.media3.hw-static.com/wp-content/uploads/7766707.jpg
Her brother looks very mixed though, interesting
Not really, if you concentrate on just the lower half of her face (from the cheekbones).
her mother looks totally white to me (she could easily be an English woman), she has a big chin but that’s not something unusual.
Herbert was the son of Samuel “Sam” Steinfeld and Bessie Zelensky. Sam was a Romanian Jewish immigrant. Bessie was a Russian Jewish immigrant.
Here’s the proof: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Herbert%20Melvin&gsln=Steinfeld&MSAV=1&msfns=Steinfeld&msmns=Valenskey&cpxt=1&cp=12&catbucket=rst&uidh=69f
Regarding Hailee’s paternal grandfather Herbert Melvin Steinfeld, I have found his social security applications and claims record: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=Numident&gss=sfs28_ms_r_db&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Herbert%20Melvin&gsln=Steinfeld&msddy=2002&MSAV=1&uidh=69f
However, one must have a FULL ACCESS to ANCESTRY.COM to identify his parents because 1940 US Census is not helping (there were two Herbert Steinfeld’s in New York).
Her mother doesn’t look to have any Asian ancestry but Hailee and her brother look to have asian ancestry and have asian features. It’s interesting how people of mix backgrounds come out. Also her mother doesn’t appear to be have any black ancestry but they do. If people question her ethnicity, she appears to not be of African ancestry because her great grandmother was black. Which is not as close in relation like a grandparent or parent. Hailee is 1/8th african and her great grandmother appears to have quite a bit mixture in her. So in a relative sense Hailee is below 1/8th african descent. Very low.
She was far too ugly to play Juliet. Last time I checked Juliet wasn’t part Asian, so…………
Very racist remark… I thought she was all European before I came on here… but the African and Asian side are definitely low…
Thats not racist, she is asian and she clearly looks mixed. She wouldn’t fit the part as juliet either due to her looks.