<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2011--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.amandlastenberg.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress and singer . She is best known for her portrayal of Rue in The Hunger Games and Madeline Whittier in Everything, Everything . She is also known for releasing her debut single which is a cover of Mac DeMarco's song entitled "Let My Baby Stay". </P> <P> Stenberg was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Karen Brailsford, a spiritual counselor and writer, and Tom Stenberg . Her mother is African American, her father is Danish, and her paternal grandmother had Greenlandic Inuit ancestry . She has two older half - sisters on her father's side . Her first name means "power" or "strength" in two South African languages, IsiXhosa and Zulu . </P>

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