Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027
as Margo Kess (voice)
Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from every other Spider in the multiverse, and Gwen and his other friends might not be enough to help him.
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
as Princess Amari
Zelie and her older brother Tzain form an alliance with the king’s daughter, Princess Amari, and son, Prince Inan, to fight back against his brutal ru...
Ozi: Voice of the Forest
2024
as Ozi (voice)
Separated from her parents when their forest home is destroyed, Ozi is taken in by kind wildlife sanctuary owners who keep her safe and slowly teach h...
The Melodic Blue: Baby Keem
2023
as Jade
Keem's internal battle leads us through fragments of memory and temptation as he navigates the depths of The Melodic Blue.
My Animal
2023
as Jonny
Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connec...
My Animal
2023
Executive Producer
Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connec...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
as 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 S...
Bodies Bodies Bodies
2022
as 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" whi...
Bodies Bodies Bodies
2022
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" whi...
My Name Is Andrea
2022
as Wild Child
A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passiona...
Dear Evan Hansen
2021
as 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 mistak...
This Changes Everything
2019
as Self
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
2018
as 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 u...
BLKNWS
2018
as 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-...
Where Hands Touch
2018
as 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 Y...
Illegal Civilization 3
2018
as Self
Features Kevin White, Aramis Hudson, Zach Saraceno, Nico Hiraga, and Olan Prenatt skating, having fun, and getting into all of the hijinks that we’ve ...
The Darkest Minds
2018
as 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 h...
Everything, Everything
2017
as 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
2017
as Self
A short film featuring tracks from Blood Orange's third album Freetown Sound.
As You Are
2016
as 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 friendshi...
Lemonade
2016
as Self
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 ...
Blue Girls Burn Fast
2016
Director, Producer, Writer
Sometimes our emotions are our best friends.
The Yellow Wallpaper
2014
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
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...
Rio 2
2014
as 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 ...
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self (Rue)
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and ma...
The Hunger Games
2012
as 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 comp...
A Taste of Romance
2012
as 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 do...
Colombiana
2011
as 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...
Wildwood
N/A
as (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 ...