Amandla Stenberg
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- Date of birth – October 23, 1998 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- Height – 5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
Well, although Zulu and Xhosa languages does not have a direct translation, just as Amandla is named after these two words for “power”, Amandla was born in Los Angeles, California to the writer Karen Brailsford and the businessman Tom Stenberg. Her mother is Black while the father’s roots can be traced back to Denmark with some Inuit-Greenlandic blood attached to him too.
Mini Bio
In the summer and fall of 2010, The first feature film she ever shot was Colombiana (2011), which is an action-thriller starring Zoe Saldana, who portrays the avenging assassin Cataleya Restrepo with Amandla as a child. In April 2011, it was announced by Lionsgate that Amandla had been cast in the role of Rue for This is the film version of the famous book series for teenagers that. As such, Amandla received her nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a motion picture from NAACP Image Awards as it was her unforgettably touched the hearts performance ever made. she earned (alongside Jennifer Lawrence) a Teen Choice Award for the Most Romantic Movie Duo.
Additional info
In season One of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow in 2013; Amandla played Macey who is the daughter of Captain Frank Irving (Orlando Jones). On Mr. Robinson (2015) And also amandla was cast as the main character Halle Foster alongside Craig Robinson during the summer of 2015. She debuted at the Sundance Film Festival with her teen angst drama As You Are (2016) which ended up winning a Special Jury prize. The visual album Lemonade (2016) features multiple sequences of Amandla. In March of 2016, a heated bidding war took place and Fox 2000 won it for Angela Thomas’ debut novel and Amandla will be starring in The Hate U Give (2018).
Besides, the actress got major roles in the YA remake Everything. Everything (2017); World War II movie Where Hands Touch (2018) directed by Amma Asante. And film version of The Darkest Minds (2018) series based on Alexandra Bracken’s works.
It was announced in May 2019 that Amandla would star in the Netflix series The Eddy (2020) alongside André Holland (Moonlight (2016)). The show set in Paris had Damien Chazelle as its executive producer.
Family
- Parents
- Karen Brailsford
- Tom Stenberg
Trivia
- Mother is African-American and father is Danish.
- Amandla means power in Zulu.
- At the dedication ceremony of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. on October 16, 2011. Amandla gave a speech entitled “Reflections on Women of the Civil Rights Movement” with Cicely Tyson. Her talk honored the four girls who were killed in the Birmingham church bombing in 1963.
- Paternal grandmother was an Inuit from Greenland.
- Named #1 Breakout Kid Actor of 2012 by “Entertainment Weekly”.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member since 2018.
- Has two older half-sisters on her father’s side.
- Once took a ride on the Goodyear Blimp.