Acting
Amandla Stenberg
EN cinema · 27 credits
Born
23 October 1998 (age 28)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Known for
Filmography
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Margo Kess (voice)
Children of Blood and Bone
as Princess Amari
Wildwood
as Niamh (voice)
OZI: Voice of the Forest
as JAZZY (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Margo Kess: Spider-Byte (voice)
My Animal
as Jonny, Executive Producer
My Name Is Andrea
as Wild Child
Bodies Bodies Bodies
as Sophie, Executive Producer
Dear Evan Hansen
as Alana Beck
Where Hands Touch
as Leyna
The Darkest Minds
as Ruby Daly
The Hate U Give
as Starr Carter
BLKNWS
as BN Editor/Actor
Everything, Everything
as Maddy Whittier
As You Are
as Sarah
Lemonade
as Self
Blue Girls Burn Fast
2016
Blue Girls Burn Fast
Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
Rio 2
as Bia (voice)
The Yellow Wallpaper
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
A Taste of Romance
as Taylor
Colombiana
as Cataleya Restrepo (Age10)