An American actress Amandla Stenberg is best known or her roles as young Cataleya in Colombiana and as Rue in The Hunger Games. Her name means the word for “power” or “strength” in Zulu and Xhosa languages. According to 2016 estimates, her total net worth is slightly over 1 million dollars. Let’s take a closer look on her success story.
Amandla Stenberg was born on October 23, 1998 in Los Angeles, California. She has an African American mother and Danish father. When she was four, she started her career with modeling for Disney and appearing in various commercials. Her first film role was in Colombiana. Stenberg became more publicly known later, being cast as Rue in The Hunger Games. You could also see her in A Taste of Romance, Sleepy Hollow. and Mr. Robinson, and hear her voice in Rio 2.
Besides her acting career, Amandla has performed on the violin and singing harmonies with singer and songwriter Zander Hawley since 2013. Their first EP was released in August 2015 by the folk-rock duo Honeywater. Amandla is an interesting person and skillful young actress with promising career. We will see how big her net worth be in the future years.
In 2015, she has became the co-author of the comic book Niobe: She is Life. Amandla supports several charity organizations, such as No Kid Hungry, which wants to end childhood hunger in the USA, and Ubuntu, which supports kids in South Africa. Amandla dated young actor Jaden Smith. However, they split up later.
