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.