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.

Filmography

• 2027Children of Blood and Bone — Princess Amari
• 2027Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse — Margo Kess (voice)
• 2026Wildwood — Niamh (voice)
• 2024OZI: Voice of the Forest — JAZZY (voice)
• The Acolyte — Mae-ho 'Mae' Aniseya / Verosha 'Osha' Aniseya
• 2023My Animal — Jonny, Executive Producer
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Margo Kess: Spider-Byte (voice)
• 2023The Melodic Blue: Baby Keem — Jade
• 2022Bodies Bodies Bodies — Sophie, Executive Producer
• 2022My Name Is Andrea — Wild Child
• 2021Dear Evan Hansen — Alana Beck
• The Eddy — Julie
• 2018BLKNWS — BN Editor/Actor
• 2018The Darkest Minds — Ruby Daly
• 2018The Hate U Give — Starr Carter
• 2018Where Hands Touch — Leyna
• 2017Everything, Everything — Maddy Whittier
• 2016As You Are — Sarah
• 2016Blue Girls Burn Fast — Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
• Mr. Robinson — Halle Foster
• 2014Rio 2 — Bia (voice)
• 2014The Yellow Wallpaper — Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• Sleepy Hollow — Macey Irving
• 2012A Taste of Romance — Taylor
• 2012The Hunger Games — Rue
• 2011Colombiana — Cataleya Restrepo (Age10)

Appearances as themselves (11)

• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2019This Changes Everything — Self
• 2018Illegal Civilization 3 — Self
• 2017With Him / Best to You / Better Numb — Self
• 2016Lemonade — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games — Self - Rue
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked — Self - Guest Judge
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• The Daily Show — Self
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self - Presenter