Biography
Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She began her career as a child and received recognition for playing Rue in the action film The Hunger Games (2012). As she grew older, she appeared in the supernatural series Sleepy Hollow (2013–2014) and the romance film Everything, Everything (2017). She received praise for her performance as a teenager witnessing a police shooting in the drama film The Hate U Give (2018). She then starred in the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024). Outside of acting, Stenberg made her musical debut in 2015, performing as part of the folk-rock duo Honeywater and performing the song "Let My Baby Stay" for Everything, Everything. She is also noted for her activism towards LGBTQ youth and was included on Time's lists of the most influential teens in 2015 and 2016. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amandla Stenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture · 2019
- BET YoungStars Award · 2016
Filmography23 titles
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Hate U Give
Where Hands Touch
RuPaul's Drag Race
Sleepy Hollow
Everything, Everything
The Hunger Games
The Darkest Minds
As You Are
Colombiana
The Eddy
Rio 2
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Daily Show
Dear Evan Hansen
Bodies Bodies Bodies
This Changes Everything
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Acolyte
The Melodic Blue: Baby Keem
My Animal
Mr. Robinson