1. Amandla Stenberg was born on October 23,1998 and is an American actress.
39 Facts About Amandla Stenberg
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Amandla Stenberg began her career as a child and received recognition for playing Rue in the action film The Hunger Games.
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Amandla Stenberg received praise for her performance as a teenager witnessing a police shooting in the drama film The Hate U Give.
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Amandla Stenberg then starred in the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies and the Star Wars series The Acolyte.
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Outside of acting, Stenberg made her musical debut in 2015, performing as part of the folk rock duo Honeywater, and performed the song "Let My Baby Stay" for Everything, Everything.
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Amandla Stenberg is noted for her activism towards LGBTQ youth, and was included on Time's lists of most influential teens in 2015 and 2016.
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Amandla Stenberg, born in Los Angeles, California, is the child of Karen Brailsford, an African-American spiritual counselor and writer, and Tom Stenberg, who is Danish.
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Amandla Stenberg has Greenlandic Inuit ancestry through her paternal grandmother, Ena Stenberg, who was born in Greenland and moved to Denmark during direct colonial rule of Greenland.
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Amandla Stenberg was a radio personality and singer in Denmark who performed with a group called Mik that sang at the World's Fair in New York in 1964.
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Ena Amandla Stenberg was associated with the Danish colonial community in Greenland before moving to Denmark.
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At age four, Amandla Stenberg started doing catalog modeling shoots for Disney.
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Amandla Stenberg has appeared in commercials for clients such as Boeing and Kmart.
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In 2016, Amandla Stenberg announced via Instagram that she would be studying filmmaking at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
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Amandla Stenberg ultimately decided against attending the school, as she found herself booking jobs, and instead chose to continue with her acting career.
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Amandla Stenberg's breakthrough came at the age of 14, when she was cast as Rue in the 2012 film The Hunger Games.
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The film was a critical and financial success, and Amandla Stenberg's performance was praised.
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Amandla Stenberg received a number of awards and nominations, including a Black Reel Award nomination.
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Amandla Stenberg had a recurring role on season one of Sleepy Hollow from 2013 to 2014.
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In 2013, Amandla Stenberg began performing on the violin and singing harmonies at Los Angeles venues with singer-songwriter Zander Hawley.
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In 2014, Amandla Stenberg voiced Bia in the animated film Rio 2, which was a commercial success.
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Amandla Stenberg played series regular Halle Foster on the short-lived series Mr Robinson, which ran in 2015.
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In 2016, Amandla Stenberg appeared in Beyonce: Lemonade by Beyonce, and won the BET YoungStars Award.
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Also in 2016, Amandla Stenberg had auditioned for the role of Shuri in the superhero film Black Panther she walked away because she felt that she was not right for the role.
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Amandla Stenberg received praise for her performance, and earned a Teen Choice Award nomination.
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The film was received positively, and Amandla Stenberg received critical acclaim for her performance.
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In late 2018, Amandla Stenberg starred in Amma Asante's World War II drama Where Hands Touch.
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In 2019, Amandla Stenberg portrayed Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old girl who in 1957 was among a group of nine Black students who were initially prevented from entering a racially segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas during a segment on the television show Drunk History.
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Amandla Stenberg collaborated with the show's composers, Pasek and Paul, on "The Anonymous Ones", a new song written specifically for her character, whose role was expanded upon from the stage version.
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In 2021, Amandla Stenberg was cast in the main role for the Star Wars series The Acolyte.
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Amandla Stenberg is outspoken about her political views in interviews and on social media and was named "Feminist of the Year" in 2015 by the Ms.
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Amandla Stenberg has spoken publicly on social media about cultural appropriation.
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In October 2023, Amandla Stenberg signed the Artists4Ceasefire open letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States, calling for a ceasefire of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and Gaza war.
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In 2015, Amandla Stenberg released her first EP in August 2015 as the folk rock duo Honeywater.
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On June 19,2024, Amandla Stenberg released "Discourse", a song that was created to address the racial prejudice she has endured.
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Amandla Stenberg was included in Times list of Most Influential Teens in 2015 and again in 2016.
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In January 2016, Amandla Stenberg came out as bisexual though she subsequently stated that pansexual was an accurate term as well.
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From early 2018 to late 2018, Amandla Stenberg dated singer Mikaela Mullaney Straus, better known by her stage name King Princess.
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Amandla Stenberg is most acclaimed for her performance in The Hate U Give.
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Amandla Stenberg received nominations for her performance as an ill teenager in the drama film Everything, Everything.