About Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg is an American actress and musician. She began her career as a child actor 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 has since starred in the comedy horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024) in a dual role. Stenberg's first name means "power" or "strength" in the South African languages of IsiXhosa and Zulu. In 2016, Stenberg appeared in Beyoncé: Lemonade by Beyoncé, and won the BET YoungStars Award. In 2015, Stenberg released her first EP in August 2015 as the folk rock duo Honeywater. On June 19, 2024, Stenberg released "Discourse", a song that was created to address the racial prejudice she has endured.
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