Ethnicity:
*50% Ashkenazi Jewish
*12.5% Boholano Filipino
*12.5% African-American
*25% mix of English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish
Mother
Cheryl (Domasin) was born in California. Her mother is a famous interior designer in Los Angeles. Cheri is the full time manager of Hailee.
Father
Peter Steinfeld, originally from a family from New York, is Jewish. The renowned personal fitness trainer and life coach makes miraculous transformations in body and soul an everyday occurrence. The muscle behind Pete’s magic is 27 years of experience as a personal trainer, during which he has dramatically transformed clients’ physiques, as well as their self-image, esteem and life habits. With Pete’s expertise, compassion, guidance and encouragement, clients have everything to gain, except weight! And he motivates them to maintain those amazing results—for life!
Pete knows all about the efforts needed to create dramatic changes—he did it himself. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn, New York, Pete elevated himself to epic heights in the entertainment industry. He has indelibly made his mark upon it, with an elite roster of clientele including Madonna, Glenn Frey, Ozzy Osbourne, Larry David, just to name a few.
Pete was destined to become one of California’s movers and shakers when he relocated to the Golden State with his family in 1978. He attended California State University, Northridge, where he studied business and nutrition—an education that contributed immeasurable depth to his future foray into personal fitness training.
Only two years later, Pete co-founded a major fitness venture in which he played such a vital role that it provided him with a crucial springboard to founding his own personal fitness training company, Better Shape-Up, in 1990. Better Shape-Up was the lightning rod that conducted Pete’s fitness proficiency powerfully into the world. Better Shape-Up specializes in the physical, motivational and nutritional guidance that all must work together to harmoniously reshape the body, as well as the mind. Pete educates and empowers everyone he meets, and his dynamic personality and sense of humor uplift and entertain. He has hosted several infomercials, and can be seen regularly on such shows as QVC, Shop at Home, Home Shopping Network—and don’t forget “The Osbournes.”
But Pete’s influence and innovativeness don’t stop there. He is an inventor of fitness equipment, and regularly consults for other fitness companies. One of his proudest accomplishments was teaming up with Apex Fitness and Bodymedia in 2005 to combine his motivational skills and inspiration with the world’s most intelligent calorie management system, the bodybugg™. The bodybugg™ is a revolutionary device for tracking and managing calories with pinpoint precision. It’s innovative, cutting-edge, and completely attuned to the needs of anyone seeking a better shape-up.
Brother
Her older brother Griffin who was born on January 9, 1994 is also in a high profile line of work. He started out in desert races with his father before getting into stock car racing. Griffin was a Nascar driver from 2012 to 2014. He now runs a YouTube channel dedicated to all things auto. He is extremely popular on social media, whee he refers to himself as a “professional brother.” Obviously, Griffin has kept his sense of humor about having such a famous sister.
Maternal Grandfather
Ricardo Giliermo Domasin was born on 7 September 1938 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA, USA. He was of half Filipino (Boholano) and half African-American descent. He died on 21 June 2014 at Glendale, Los Angeles, CA, USA, at age 75.
Maternal Grandmother
Hailee’s maternal grandmother Laurita Lee Hinkle is 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.
Maternal Great-Grandfather
Ricardo’s father, Pastor “Peter” Loresca Domasin, was born on 26 July 1904, in Panglao, Bohol, in the 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. He married Evelyn Olivia Bain in 1928 at Los Angeles County, CA, USA. Peter Lorisca Domasin died on 15 March 1967 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA, USA, at age 62.1 He was buried at Resurrection Cemetery, at Montebello, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.
Maternal Great-Grandmother
Evelyn Olivia Bain was born on 18 April 1910 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Edward Bain and Wilma Frances Peterson. Evelyn was African-American, and she and her parents are listed as either African-American or, sometimes, as “Mulatto”, in census records. Evelyn Olivia Bain died on 10 May 1982 at Glendale, Los Angeles County, CA, USA, at age 72.2 She was buried at Resurrection Cemetery, at Montebello, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.
Uncle
Jake Steinfeld was born on February 21, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American actor, fitness specialist and fitness training. Steinfeld develops businesses through the “Body by Jake” brand, and founded Major League Lacrosse (MLL).
Steinfeld develops brands and businesses as Chairman and CEO of Body by Jake and is the founder of FitOrbit a fitness and weight loss program. Previously, Steinfeld created FitTV, a 24-hour fitness lifestyle network, which he later sold to News Corp. Following the sale of FitTV, Jake launched ExerciseTV, a fitness on-demand television network, with partners Comcast, New Balance, and Time Warner.
Partnering with Universal Music Enterprises, a division of Universal Music Group, Steinfeld released another title, High-Intensity Workout, a series of compilations and music tracks by some of today’s artists, producers, DJs and mixers.
Steinfeld founded Major League Lacrosse (MLL), the first professional outdoor lacrosse league. MLL completed its fourteenth season in 2014 with teams in Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Chesapeake, MD; Delaware, OH; Denver, CO; New York, NY; and Rochester, NY.
Steinfeld has partnered with Jamba Juice, hosting Healthy Living with Jake podcasts.
Steinfeld started as a personal trainer with clients including Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford, whom he trained for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Later, he starred on a sitcom on the Family Channel called Big Brother Jake. Other television credits include King of the Hill, Movin’ Mountains, Dream On, The Tracey Ullman Show, Shaping Up and Simon & Simon. In addition, Steinfeld appeared in the fourteenth season of Hell’s Kitchen as a guest in episode 12’s dinner service.
Steinfeld made his film debut in the late 1970s in the film Americathon. He had the lead role of the killer in the early slasher film Home Sweet Home (1981). Other film roles include Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie (1980), Into the Night (1985), The Money Pit (1986), and Coming to America (1988). He supplied the voice of Git, a lab rat in the Disney animated feature Ratatouille and as the Fish Teller in the 2011 English version of From Up On Poppy Hill.
Steinfeld has authored and co-authored books. Steinfeld became Chairman of the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports® in 2006 under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and also served under Governor Jerry Brown. Steinfeld is Chairman of the National Foundation for Governors’ Fitness Councils.
Steinfeld was an Olympic torchbearer, one of only 22 Americans selected to carry the inspirational flame for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.
In 2013 he became honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades. Steinfeld has been married to his wife Tracey since 1988, with whom he has four children, daughter Morgan and sons Nicholas, Zachary, and Luke.
Great-Uncle
Larry Edward Domasin was born on March 5, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He married Beverly A. Zaslow on 4 September 1983 at Los Angeles County, CA, USA. Joining Rachlin Partners in 2001, Larry joined the firm to oversee the accounting procedures. In addition, he was active in contributing to our marketing and business-development agenda. Larry has since risen to the position of Controller, managing the firm’s financial affairs.
Prior to Rachlin, Larry was head of accounting for Robert L. Earl, AIA & Associates, an architectural firm known for its design and construction administration of exclusive, multi-million-dollar custom homes.
Education
Larry attended the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations. By auditing graduate courses at UCLA’s School of Business, he fashioned his own customized minor in Accounting and Business Administration, which serves him well in his current position.
In what Larry calls “another life,” he was a child actor. IMDB credits Larry as having worked alongside such Hollywood legends as Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Marlon Brando, Barbara Stanwyck, and, most notably, Elvis Presley. At the age of eight, Larry starred with the King playing his character’s agent/manager in Paramount Pictures’ Fun in Acapulco (1963).
Today, Larry’s passions are all about cars and the Porsche Club of America (PCA). Having served as the former Vice President and Newsletter Editor of his Region. As such, odds are high that you’ll find him on the weekends carving the curves up and down sparsely traveled twisty mountain roads along with his fellow club devotees.
First Cousin
True Laurita O’Brien was born February 28, 1994 is an American model and actress. O’Brien is signed with Ford Models. She started at the age of five when her mother got her into television commercials, and subsequently got into modeling at the age of 13. During her teenage years she modeled for the likes of Guess and Pottery Barn. O’Brien appeared in the Girlfriend perfume campaign with Justin Bieber, and as an extra in his music video, “One Time”. She began her acting career in 2012, when she guest starred in an episode of Jessie playing the role of Diamond Bloodworth.
In 2014, she joined the cast of the Daytime Emmy Award winning soap opera Days of Our Lives, portraying the role of Paige Larson; she debuted on March 3, 2014. O’Brien is signed to a two-year deal with the series. In June 2015, it was reported that O’Brien was let go from the soap, and last appeared on September 9, 2015. In 2016, she joined the upcoming series Queen Sugar as Stella.
O’Brien was born in California to her father, a graphic designer and mother, a housewife. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, working out, eating healthy, kickboxing and doing yoga. O’Brien has been dating her former Days of Our Lives co-star Casey Moss since 2015.
Paternal Grandfather
Hailee’s paternal grandfather was Herbert Melvin Steinfeld (the son of Samuel “Sam” Steinfeld and Bessie Zelensky/Valensky). Samuel was a Romanian Jewish immigrant. Bessie was a Russian Jewish immigrant, the daughter of Hyman Zelensky and Sarah.