Zendaya

**Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman** ( ; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She has won many awards, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 2022, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The movies where she plays the main role have made more than $3.9 billion around the world.

Zendaya was born in Oakland, California. She started working as a child model and backup dancer.

## Career

She became popular for playing Rocky Blue on the Disney Channel show _Shake It Up_ (2010–2013). In 2013, Zendaya was a contestant on the sixteenth season of the competition series _Dancing with the Stars_.

From 2015 to 2018, she produced and acted as K.C. Cooper in the sitcom _K.C. Undercover_. In 2019, she started playing the main role in the HBO drama series _Euphoria_. Her performance as a teenage drug addict made her the youngest winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Her movie roles as supporting parts in the musical drama _The Greatest Showman_ (2017) and the superhero movie _Spider-Man: Homecoming_ (2017) and its sequel, _Spider-Man: Far from Home_ (2019).

### Music

In 2011, she released the singles "Swag It Out" and "Watch Me", the latter a collaboration with Bella Thorne. She signed with Hollywood Records in 2012. Her eponymous debut studio album (2013) was released to moderate success. The album's lead single, "Replay", reached the top 40 on the U.S. _Billboard_ Hot 100 chart.

Zendaya's biggest success as a musician came with her Zac Efron collaboration, "Rewrite the Stars", from _The Greatest Showman_ in 2017. The single reached within the top 20 of several record charts and has received multi-platinum sales certifications globally. Zendaya has also written and performed several songs for _Euphoria_.

## Personal life

Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman was born on September 1, 1996, in Oakland, California.  Zendaya’s father Kazembe Ajamu Coleman, who was born Samuel David Coleman, is Black American and originally from Arkansas. He is a descendant of sharecroppers. Her father took a DNA ancestry test and discovered he had some genetic ancestry from Nigeria, Macedonia, and Iceland. This discovery led him to change his birth name to what it is today.  Her mother, Claire Stoermer has German and Scottish ancestry. Her name means "to give thanks" in Shona and she has five siblings.

Zendaya lives in Los Angeles. She is vegetarian. She is currently dating with Spider-Man: Homecoming co-star Tom Holland.

### Film

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col"|Director(s)|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Super Buddies_|Lollipop (voice)|Robert Vince||||||||
|_Spider-Man: Homecoming_|Michelle|Jon Watts||||||||
|_The Greatest Showman_|Anne Wheeler|Michael Gracey||||||||
|_Duck Duck Goose_|Chi (voice)|Chris Jenkins||||||||
|_Smallfoot_|Meechee (voice)|Karey Kirkpatrick||||||||
|_Spider-Man: Far From Home_|MJ|Jon Watts||||||||
|_Malcolm & Marie_|Marie|Sam Levinson||||||||
|_Space Jam: A New Legacy_|Lola Bunny (voice)|Malcolm D. Lee||||||||
|_Dune: Part One_|Chani|Denis Villeneuve||||||||
|_Spider-Man: No Way Home_|MJ|Jon Watts||||||||
|_Dune: Part Two_|Chani|Denis Villeneuve||||||||
|_Challengers_|Tashi Duncan|Luca Guadagnino||||||||
|||Kristoffer Borgli||||||||
||Athena|Christopher Nolan||||||||
||MJ|Destin Daniel Cretton||||||||
||Chani|Denis Villeneuve||||||||
||Felicia (voice)|Walt Dohrn & Conrad Vernon||||||||

### Television

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|scope="col" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Shake It Up_|Rocky Blue|Co-lead role||||||||
|_Good Luck Charlie_|Rocky Blue|Episode: "Charlie Shakes It Up"||||||||
|_PrankStars_|Herself|Episode: "Walk the Prank"||||||||
|_Pixie Hollow Games_|Fern (voice)|Television special||||||||
|_A.N.T. Farm_|Sequoia Jones|Episode: "Creative consultANT"||||||||
|_Frenemies_|Halley Brandon|Television film||||||||
|_Dancing with the Stars_|Herself|Contestant (season 16), and runner-up||||||||
|_The Story of Zendaya_|Herself|Television series||||||||
|_Zapped_|Zoey Stevens|Television film||||||||
|_The Making of SWAY_|Herself|Television dancing-preparation show; 8 episodes||||||||
|_SWAY: A Dance Trilogy_|Herself|Television dance show||||||||
|_K.C. Undercover_|K.C. Cooper|Lead role; also co-producer||||||||
|_Black-ish_|Rasheida|Episode: "Daddy's Day"||||||||
|_America's Next Top Model_|Herself|Episode: "Lights, Camera, Catwalk"||||||||
|_Walk the Prank_|Herself|Episode: "K.C. Undercover Edition"||||||||
|_Lip Sync Battle_|Herself|Episode: "Tom Holland vs. Zendaya"||||||||
|_The OA_|Fola|3 episodes||||||||
|_Euphoria_|Rue Bennett|Main role; also executive producer (specials and season 2–present)||||||||

### Web

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col"|Note|scope="col"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Fortnite Winterfest Trailer - Featuring Spider-Man_|MJ (voice)||style="text-align:center;"|||||||

#### As lead artist

|scope="col" style="width:16em;"|Title|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Director|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|2011|Lipo Chang||||
|Glenn A. Foster||||||
|rowspan="2"|2012|Sanaa Hamri||||
|rowspan="2"|Marc Klasfeld|||||
|rowspan="2"|2013|||||
|Colin Tilley||||||
|rowspan="4"|2014|rowspan="2"|Stephen Garnett|||
|rowspan="2"||||||
|2016|Brad Furman|||||

#### As featured artist

|scope="col" style="width:16em;"|Title|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Main artist(s)|scope="col"|Director(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2015|Bobby Brackins, Jeremih|Damien Sandoval||||||

#### As guest appearance

|scope="col" style="width:16em;"|Title|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Director||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2009|Kidz Bop Kids||||||||
|2013|Trevor Jackson|Mike Ho|||||||
|2015|Taylor Swift|Joseph Kahn|||||||
|2016|Beyoncé|Beyoncé|||||||
|2017|Bruno Mars|Cameron Duddy and Bruno Mars|||||||

## Discography

- _Zendaya_ (2013)

## Concert tours

- Swag It Out Tour (2012–2014)

- Opening act
- Summer Tour  (2014)

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **embed**: yes
- **instrument**: Vocals


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Zendaya
- **image**: Zendaya - 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg
- **caption**: Zendaya in 2019
- **birth name**: Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman
- **birth place**: Oakland, California, US
- **partner**: Tom Holland (2021present)
- **years active**: 2009–present
- **awards**: List of awards and nominations received by Zendaya, Full list
- **signature**: Signature of Zendaya.svg