Curiosidades

Spent over a year on Broadway in the Tony Award winning play "The Humans," in which Steele co-starred as the daughter of Jayne Houdyshell's character. Houdyshell won a Tony for the role, and then was also cast with Steele in The Good Wife: Pelo Direito de Recomeçar (2009) spin-off, The Good Fight (2017).

She was cast from over 2,000 young actresses for her first movie role in Espanglês (2004).

Was named one of the 55 faces of the future in Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010).

She is of Bohemian/Czech (one quarter), English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and 1/64th Polish descent (her Polish ancestor immigrated to the USA in the early 19th century, settling in North Carolina).

Attended the same high school (The Episcopal Academy, Merion Pennsylvania) as Academy Award Nominee Director, M. Night Shyamalan.

Sang several times in the Chapel of Episcopal Academy (where she attended high school) in front of the whole student body.

Was a high school junior at Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) during the 2004-2005 school year.

She grew up in Philadelphia.

Both of her parents are doctors. Her mother, Katherine A. High, is a hematology oncology physician at the University of Pennsylvania and her father, George Steele, is an internal medicine physician specializing in nutrition who was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Her mother was the co-founder, president, and chief scientific officer of Spark Therapeutics.