Hailee Steinfeld Reveals Origin of Childhood Nickname After Parents 'Couldn't Decide' What to Name Her Tommy McArdleNovember 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM 0 petesteinfeld/Instagram Hailee Steinfeld with her parents Hailee Steinfeld shared the origin of her nickname Beau in the latest edition of her newsletter Beau Society on Friday, Nov.
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Hailee Steinfeld shared the origin of her nickname Beau in the latest edition of her newsletter Beau Society on Friday, Nov. 7
The Sinners star wrote that her parents chose the nickname when they began calling her "Hailee Beau Bailee" early in her life
"No one in my family actually calls me Hailee; they call me Beau," Steinfeld previously wrote in her newsletter back in August 2024
Hailee Steinfeld is explaining the origins behind her longtime nickname.
In the Friday, Nov. 7, edition of the Sinners star's newsletter Beau Society, which she launched in August 2024, Steinfeld, 28, responded to a reader who asked her how she got the nickname Beau.
"Before I was born, my parents couldn't decide whether to name me Hailee or Bailee," Steinfeld wrote in response to the question. "Obviously, they landed on Hailee, but still liked the sound of Bailee, so they started calling me 'Hailee Beau Bailee', which we shortened to Beau."
"It's a childhood nickname that I never dropped," she explained.
Steinfeld's father Peter is a personal trainer and her mother Cheri worked in interior design before taking on a role as Hailee's manager. They married in 1992 and also share older son Griffin, 31, whom the singer and actress told PEOPLE she is "especially close with" in a 2023 digital cover story.
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Hailee Steinfeld with her brother and parents
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"I would not be who I am or where I am if it weren't for my mother and my father and my brother," Hailee said at the time. "They have kept me in check every step of the way."
Steinfeld previously shared some of the story behind her nickname when she originally launched Beau Society in its first-ever edition on Aug. 9, 2024. At that time, she wrote that she began considering a newsletter in 2023 during the Screen Actors Guild strike and while she was living in Buffalo, where her now-husband Josh Allen plays quarterback for the NFL's Buffalo Bills.
"Oh, and the name - it's what everyone calls me," she wrote at the end of her first newsletter.
"No one in my family actually calls me Hailee; they call me Beau! And since I started creating this thing, I've already riffed on the name: Beau Society naturally morphed into its initials, BS," she added. "Which evolved into This is BS - my mom coined that expression during a fitting and it stuck immediately."
As Hailee told Bustle in a recent interview, she largely works on her newsletter during weeks where she isn't working. "I wake up on a Monday, which is my brainstorming day. Tuesday, I'm writing it," she said. "Wednesday, sending it off to my designer. And then Thursday, we're doing revisions, and then we send it off."
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Published: November 07, 2025 at 10:36PM on Source: MARIO MAG
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