Amandla Stenberg
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)
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Acolyte as Mae-ho 'Mae' Aniseya / Verosha 'Osha' Aniseya
- 2024 · Ozi: Voice of the Forest as Ozi (voice)
- 2023 · The Melodic Blue: Baby Keem as Jade
- 2023 · My Animal as Jonny
- 2023 · Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Margo Kess: Spider-Byte (voice)
- 2022 · Bodies Bodies Bodies as Sophie
- 2022 · My Name Is Andrea as Wild Child
- 2021 · Dear Evan Hansen as Alana Beck
- 2020 · The Eddy as Julie
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · This Changes Everything as Self
- 2018 · The Hate U Give as Starr Carter
- 2018 · BLKNWS as BN Editor/Actor
- 2018 · Where Hands Touch as Leyna
- 2018 · Illegal Civilization 3 as Self
- 2018 · The Darkest Minds as Ruby Daly
- 2017 · Everything, Everything as Maddy Whittier
- 2017 · With Him / Best to You / Better Numb as Self
- 2016 · As You Are as Sarah
- 2016 · Lemonade as Self
- 2015 · Mr. Robinson as Halle Foster
- 2014 · Rio 2 as Bia (voice)
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Sleepy Hollow as Macey Irving
- 2012 · The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self (Rue)
- 2012 · The Hunger Games as Rue
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Rue (archive footage)
- 2012 · A Taste of Romance as Taylor
- 2011 · Colombiana as Cataleya Restrepo (Age10)
- 2010 · RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked as Self - Guest Judge
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self / Presenter
- Future · Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Margo Kess (voice)
- Future · Wildwood as (voice)