Amandla Stenberg

CTL-E-5953 · Person · other · 1998–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07195 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5953.

Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998, Los Angeles) is the actor who grew up in public at the center of young-adult Black storytelling. Her breakthrough came as Rue in The Hunger Games (2012), a performance that made a generation of young viewers attach to a Black girl character at the heart of a franchise. She headlined the romance Everything, Everything (2017) and won wide critical acclaim as Starr Carter in The Hate U Give (2018), adapted from Angie Thomas's novel about a police shooting's aftermath. She led the horror-comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and played a dual role in the Star Wars series The Acolyte (2024). Stenberg is also a musician — half of the folk duo Honeywater, which debuted in 2015 — and was named to Time's list of most influential teenagers in both 2015 and 2016. Her name means “power” or “strength” in Zulu and Xhosa; her father is Danish and her mother African American.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Amandla Stenberg entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5953 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan tail tranche, ranks #751–#1400 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #775). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — lead actor of The Hate U Give, a defining Black YA screen text; core scope. Vital status: LIVING — born October 23, 1998; in current production work per the sources read. No tribute treatment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Time most influential teens: 2015 and 2016 (Wikipedia). Film spine: The Hunger Games (2012), The Hate U Give (2018), The Acolyte (2024). GAP NAMED (CTL-GOV-006): only one independent source was read in full for this record in this pass — derivative database mirrors of the same reference article do not count as independent — so the record caps at Provisional regardless of that source's quality. Upgrade path: one independent profile or trade-press source at enrichment. MEDIA: photo HELD (Amandla Stenberg portrait, The Hate U Give era named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5953-amandla-stenberg.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). 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 (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | 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 audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Amandla Stenberg" (accessed 2026-10-16) — October 23, 1998 Los Angeles birth, the Rue breakthrough (2012), Everything, Everything (2017), The Hate U Give (2018), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), the Acolyte dual role (2024), Honeywater, the Time teen listings, and the name's meaning — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandla_Stenberg (primary source · build store)

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