CULTURETECHLENSZendaya
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Combined Graph record U-07084 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5828.
Zendaya, born Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman on 1 September 1996 in Oakland, California, is an American actress and singer who performs under her first name alone. Trained in Oakland-area theatre programs, she first became widely known on Disney Channel, playing Rocky Blue on Shake It Up (2010–2013) and the lead on K.C. Undercover (2015–2018), which she also produced. Her adult breakthrough came as Rue Bennett, a teenager living with addiction, in HBO's Euphoria (2019–2026): she won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2020 and again in 2022, becoming, per Britannica, the youngest winner in that category and the first Black woman to win it twice. On film she plays MJ in Marvel's Spider-Man films and Chani in Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), and starred in Challengers (2024).
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Zendaya, born Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman on 1 September 1996 in Oakland, California, is an American actress and singer who performs under her first name alone. Trained in Oakland-area theatre programs, she first became widely known on Disney Channel, playing Rocky Blue on Shake It Up (2010–2013) and the lead on K.C. Undercover (2015–2018), which she also produced.
The record
- Also known as: Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Zendaya entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5828 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 870 (TV Actresses list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American actress; Britannica records her as the first Black woman to win the lead-actress drama Emmy twice. Vital status: LIVING — third and final season of Euphoria and further film roles in 2026 (Britannica, updated 7 October 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Euphoria (2020 and 2022) and a Golden Globe for best actress in a TV drama (2023) — Britannica, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and studio/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5828-zendaya.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/performances are)
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Zendaya" (updated 7 October 2026) — born 1 September 1996, Oakland; full name Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman; Disney roles; Rue Bennett in Euphoria and two Emmy Awards (2020, 2022), youngest winner in the category and first Black woman to win it twice; Chani in Dune — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zendaya (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, "Zendaya" — career chronology for Shake It Up, K.C. Undercover, the Spider-Man films, The Greatest Showman and Challengers; Time 100 listing (2022) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zendaya (build store)
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