Amandla Stenberg

Amandla Stenberg

Birth : 1998-10-23, Los Angeles, California, USA

History

Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actor. They made their acting debut with the film Colombiana (2011), and had their breakthrough playing Rue in the film The Hunger Games (2012), for which they won the Teen Choice Award for Best Chemistry. They had the recurring role of Macey Irving in the series Sleepy Hollow (2013–2014), voiced Bia in Rio 2 (2014) and starred as Halle Foster in the sitcom Mr. Robinson (2015). They garnered acclaim for their portrayals of Maddy Whittier in Everything, Everything (2017) and Starr Carter in the film The Hate U Give (2018), the latter of which won them the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and earned them a nomination for the Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Actor/Actress. Stenberg also starred as Sophie in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Profile

Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg
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Amandla Stenberg
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Amandla Stenberg

Movies

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Margo Kess / Spider-Byte (voice)
The further continuing story of Miles Morales and the many other Spider-People from different realities.
Ozi - Voice of the Forest
Ozi (voice)
This is the story of Ozi, an orphan orangutan, who uses her influencer skills to save her forest and home from deforestation.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Margo Kess: Spider-Byte (voice)
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
My Animal
Executive Producer
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie in a small northern town, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
My Animal
Jonny
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie in a small northern town, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Executive Producer
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sophie
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.
My Name Is Andrea
A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.
Dear Evan Hansen
Alana Beck
Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
This Changes Everything
Themself
An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry.
The Hate U Give
Starr Carter
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
BLKNWS
BN Editor/Actor
A conceptual and collaborative approach to contemporary journalism and entrepreneurship. It uses media as an ongoing work of art in the form of a two-channel video installation. The project explores the dimensionality of the news media format, interrogating the possibilities of truth while being aware that truth is also the foundation of ideology. News can be more than just current events and human interest stories. It can be a non-linear event, such as in the way Sesame Street delivers information to toddlers or ESPN to sports fans. BLKNWS is for people who have had enough of politicians, pundits, talking heads, oligarchs, and fear mongering.
Where Hands Touch
Leyna
Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.
The Darkest Minds
Ruby Daly
After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
Everything, Everything
Maddy Whittier
A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
With Him / Best to You / Better Numb
A short film featuring tracks from Blood Orange's third album Freetown Sound.
As You Are
Sarah
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
Lemonade
Herself
The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.
Blue Girls Burn Fast
Editor
Sometimes our emotions are our best friends.
Blue Girls Burn Fast
Director of Photography
Sometimes our emotions are our best friends.
Blue Girls Burn Fast
Writer
Sometimes our emotions are our best friends.
Blue Girls Burn Fast
Producer
Sometimes our emotions are our best friends.
Blue Girls Burn Fast
Director
Sometimes our emotions are our best friends.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Editor
Based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER depicts the experience of a woman suffering from a mental illness who moves into an old house to clear her mind.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Cinematography
Based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER depicts the experience of a woman suffering from a mental illness who moves into an old house to clear her mind.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Director
Based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER depicts the experience of a woman suffering from a mental illness who moves into an old house to clear her mind.
Rio 2
Bia (voice)
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
The Hunger Games
Rue
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
A Taste of Romance
Taylor
Uptight French chef, Sara Westbrook, gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan and his friend Danny, The Five Alarm Grill is soon a big success while Sara and Patsy, her pastry chef, struggle to bring in customers. Sara suddenly softens when she meets Gill's ten-year-old daughter Hannah. Ignoring the obvious tension between her dad and Sara, Hannah is soon playing matchmaker. Can Gill and Sara's burgeoning romance survive the temptation to compete with each other, or will the heat of competition drive them apart?
Colombiana
Cataleya Restrepo (Age10)
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Wildwood
(voice)
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest’s depths, and she – along with her hapless classmate, Curtis – is going to get him back. Prue might think she’s too old for fairytales, but she’s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.