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Hailee Steinfeld earned an Academy Award nomination at 14 for True Grit, a debut so assured she was nominated in the same category as actresses three times her age. She built two careers in parallel afterward — acting in Pitch Perfect, The Edge of Seventeen, and Apple TV+'s Dickinson, where she played Emily Dickinson, while releasing pop singles like "Starving" and "Let Me Go" after her Pitch Perfect 2 performance of "Flashlight" got her signed to Republic Records.