Amandla Stenberg Attends MET Gala 2016

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New York City, New York - Seventeen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looking beautiful wearing an all red outfit attends the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, May 2, 2016 in New York City.

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Amandla Stenberg Attends WE Day California

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Inglewood, California - Seventeen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looking beautiful wearing a three tone jacket, blue shirt, jeans and black heels attends WE Day California 2016 at The Forum on Thursday, April 7, 2016 in Inglewood, California.

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Amandla Stenberg Attends Black Girls Rock! 2016

Newark, New Jersey - Seventeen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looking beautiful in a bright colored outfit with black shoes attends Black Girls Rock! 2016 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Friday, April 1, 2016 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Amandla Stenberg Attends 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2' Los Angeles Premiere

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Los Angeles, California - Seventeen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looking beautiful in a blue dress and dark heels attends the premiere of Lionsgate's 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2' held at Microsoft Theater on Monday, November 16, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.

Amandla Stenberg is an American actress and filmmaker. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

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Amandla Stenberg Steps Out For Teen Vogue x Simon Hosted Kick-Off Back-To-School Style Dinner

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Los Angeles, California - Sixteen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looked simply wonderful wearing a colorful romper with black heels as she steps for the Teen Vogue x Simon hosted Kick-Off Back-To-School Style Dinner held at Chateau Marmont on Wednesday August 5th, 2015.

Amandla Stenberg is an American actress and voice actress. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

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Amandla Stenberg Attends Variety And Women In Film Annual Pre-Emmy Celebration

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West Hollywood, California - Fifteen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looked beautiful wearing a black dress with high heels to Variety And Women In Film Annual Pre-Emmy Celebration held at Gracias Madre on August 23, 2014 in West Hollywood, California.

Amandla Stenberg is an American actress, voice actress and comedienne. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

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Amandla Stenberg Attends MaxMara And W Magazine Cocktail Party

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LOS ANGELES, California - Fifteen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looked fabulous in a blue dress with high heels as she steps out to attend MaxMara And W Magazine Cocktail Party To Honor The Women In Film MaxMara Face Of The Future, Rose Byrne held at Chateau Marmont on June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.

Amandla Stenberg is an American actress, voice artist, and comedienne. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

Amandla Stenberg Celebrates Launch Of CHOO.08

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Beverly Hills, California - Fifteen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looked lovely in a black top and white skirt with yellow high heels as she stepped out on a Tuesday to celebrate the launch of CHOO.08 hosted by Jimmy Choo's Sandra Choi on April 15, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.

Amandla Stenberg born October 23, 1998 is an American teen actress. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

Actresses Kiernan Shipka (L) and Amandla Stenberg

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Amandla Stenberg: 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards

Beverly Hills, California - Fifteen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looked pretty in a white top, black pants and heels as she walked the red carpet for 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards with presenting sponsor Lacoste at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 22, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.

Amandla Stenberg born October 23, 1998 is an American teen actress. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

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Amandla Stenberg: Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party 2013

Los Angeles, California - Fourteen year old actress Amandla Stenberg looked beautiful wearing
black/white dress with black heeled shoes to the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party on September 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

Amandla Stenberg is an American teen actress. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

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Amandla Stenberg: Variety's Power of Youth

Universal City, California - Fourteen year old Actress Amandla Stenberg looked beautiful wearing a white top and yellow skirt to Variety's Power of Youth presented by Hasbro and GenerationOn at Universal Studios Backlot on July 27, 2013 in Universal City, California.

Amandla Stenberg born October 23, 1998 is an American teen actress. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

Stenberg is involved with Share Our Strength, also known as No Kid Hungry, an organization working to end childhood hunger in the United States. Stenberg expressed her feelings about hunger saying "Food is such a basic human need. And I just know that we can provide for every kid in this country.

Willow Shields & Amandla Stenberg Attends 26th Annual Kids Choice Awards

Los Angeles, California - Actresses Willow Shields 12 and Amandla Stenberg 14 looked beautiful as they walked the orange/purple carpet for the 26th annual Kids Choice Awards at USC Galen Center in beautiful sunny Los Angeles, California on March 23rd, 2013.

Willow wore a multi-color strapless dress with silver shoes while Amandla wore a lovely blue dress as they attended the 26th annual Kids Choice Awards.

Willow Shields born June 1st, 2000 is an American film and television actress. Willow is best known for her role of Primrose Everdeen in The Hunger Games.

Amandla Stenberg born October 23rd, 1998 is an American teen actress. She is best known for her portrayal of young Cataleya in Colombiana and Rue in The Hunger Games.

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Actor Spotlight: Amandla Stenberg Rising Star

Amandla Stenberg is a 14 year old Actress from Los Angeles, California who stars in the movie series "The Hunger Games as Rue. Named for the Zulu word for power, Amandla Stenberg is a force to be reckoned with. Born on October 23, 1998, she landed the first of her Disney catalog modeling shoots when she was four years old. Amandla has shot numerous national spots, most notably for McDonald's with Ronald McDonald himself, for Walmart with DJ Tony of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (LeVar Burton aka Kunta Kinte directed), and for BuildThe Dream.org. This moving, Boeing-sponsored PSA, which raised funds for a national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., premiered during the weekend of President Obama's inauguration in January 2009 on "Meet the Press" and other NBC/MSNBC programs.

On October 16, 2011, Amandla was invited by the MLK Memorial Foundation, along with such luminaries as Jesse Jackson, Tommy Hilfiger, Dan Rather, Stevie Wonder and Nikki Giovanni, to participate in the memorial's dedication ceremony. After an introduction by actress Cicely Tyson, Amandla paid tribute to the four little girls who were killed in the Birmingham church bombing.

In addition to on-camera jobs, Amandla has put her sensitive ear to work in ADR gigs for both film and television, and as a musician. She plays the violin, drums and guitar. In 2009, Amandla performed the violin with the Los Angeles Unified School District's Honors Orchestra at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Her involvement with the Rock STAR Music Education program landed her gigs at the House of Blues and the Hard Rock Cafe, as well as a studio session with producer/engineer Gerry Brown, after her band won RockSTAR's Battle of the Bands.

In the summer and fall of 2010, the actress shot her first feature, "Colombiana," an action-thriller starring Zoe Saldana whose character, Cataleya Restrepo, Amandla plays as a child. Amandla opens the movie, setting the stage for Saldana's cold-blooded assassin. The Luc Besson vehicle is quintessential Besson, featuring lots of daring stunts, some of which Amandla performed herself. On set to help Amandla hone her natural athletic abilities was David Belle, the French-born creator of Parkour. Next up for Amandla came the Hallmark Channel movie "A Taste of Romance," which she filmed in Los Angeles in February 2011.

In April 2011, Lionsgate announced that Amandla had landed the coveted role of Rue in the screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' popular young adult series, The Hunger Games. The news was greeted with overwhelming support by fans, and the highly anticipated film opened in theaters on March 23, 2012, to much acclaim and big box