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Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She began acting as a child in the film Colombiana (2011). She had supporting roles in the action film The Hunger Games (2012), the supernatural series Sleepy Hollow (2013–2014) and the sitcom Mr. Robinson (2015).
Amandla Stenberg. Actress: The Hunger Games. Named for the Zulu and Xhosa word for "power," Amandla was born in Los Angeles, California, to Karen Brailsford, a writer, and Tom Stenberg, a businessman. Her mother is African-American and her father is Danish (and of part Inuit-Greenlandic ancestry).
Amandla Stenberg. Actress: The Hunger Games. Named for the Zulu and Xhosa word for "power," Amandla was born in Los Angeles, California, to Karen Brailsford, a writer, and Tom Stenberg, a businessman. Her mother is African-American and her father is Danish (and of part Inuit-Greenlandic ancestry).
Sep 11, 2018 · Ms. Stenberg, who graduated from high school only last year, has been acting nearly her entire life, a fact she attributes to a childhood spent in a community where auditions were a...
May 11, 2020 · In October 2018, when she was only 19, Amandla Stenberg was featured on the cover of TIME magazine as a Next Generation Leader. At the time she had just starred in The Hate U Give, directed by George Tillman Jr. from the novel by Angie Thomas about the police killing of an unarmed black man.
As one of the only biracial young actresses on studio short lists, Amandla Stenberg feels the pressure to do the right thing. When Marvel came knocking for “Black Panther” a few years ago,...
Ever since she exploded onto the international stage at 14 years old in a little film called The Hunger Games, Amandla Stenberg has been thoughtfully, deliberately sharing her story, both via her characters on-screen and her singular voice off it.
Having first come to prominence in The Hunger Games, actor Amandla Stenberg has transcended the typical trajectory of a child star. She is teen star 2.0: braver, bolder and more political than her predecessors.
Aug 12, 2015 · As one of Hollywood's most exciting young faces and voices, Amandla Stenberg —whose first name means "power" in Zulu and was used as a rally cry against apartheid in South Africa—more than...
Aug 17, 2017 · Los Angeles native Amandla first caught our attention as Rue in The Hunger Games – but it’s her role as a teenager with a rare immunological disease in the young-adult romance Everything, Everything (in cinemas from August 18) that’s set to propel her to global stardom.
