Amandla Stenberg

Did you know?!

1. A role that slipped away

   In 2016, Stenberg tried out for Shuri in the superhero film Black Panther, but she stepped away from it since she believed she was not right for the role.

2. Behind the camera

   Stenberg worked with Sebastian Jones on the comic Niobe: She is Life, which Ashley A. Woods illustrated and which came out in November 2015. A black woman is its protagonist and author, with another as the artist, a first for a nationally distributed comic.

3. Big break

   Stenberg was 12 when she landed the part of Rue in The Hunger Games, released in 2012, which was her breakthrough. The film did well with critics and at the box office, and her work drew praise and a Black Reel Award nomination.

4. 

   First role

   Stenberg made her first feature film appearance in 2011, in Colombiana, where she played a younger version of Zoe Saldana's character.

5. Early training

   Stenberg was accepted to study filmmaking at New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2016 but decided against attending because she kept booking acting jobs.