Zendaya
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Rocky Blue on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up. 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 starred as the titular spy, K. C. Cooper, in the sitcom K.C. Undercover.
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Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Rocky Blue on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up. 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 starred as the titular spy, K. C. Cooper, in the sitcom K.C. Undercover. Her film roles include supporting parts in the musical drama The Greatest Showman and the superhero film Spider-Man: Homecoming and its sequel, Spider- man: Far From Home. Her first movie role was in the 2012 film Frenemies, a Disney Channel Original Movie. She has five older half-siblings on her father’s side. Her father is African-American, with roots in Arkansas, while her mother has German and Scottish ancestry. Her name derives from the Shona name Tendai, meaning \”to give thanks\”, meaning “to give Thanks’”. She is the only child of Claire Marie and Kazembe Ajamu. She studied at the CalShakes Conservatory Program and the American Conservatory Theater. She appeared in numerous stage productions while she was attending Oakland School for the Arts, starring as Little Ti Moune in Once on This Island at the Berkeley Playhouse and the breakout role of the male character Joe in Caroline, or Change at Palo Alto’s TheaterWorks.
She was a featured performer in the Kidz Bop music video for its cover of the song “Hot n Cold’ by Katy Perry, which was released on KidZ Bop 15 in 2009. She auditioned in November 2009 for the role of CeCe Jones in theDisney Channel sitcom shake It Up, but was selected as Rocky blue instead. She also appeared as a back-up dancer in a Sears commercial, featuring Disney star Selena Gomez. In 2011, she released \”Swag It Out\”, a promotional independent single. She signed with Hollywood Records in 2012 and later released her debut single, \”Replay\”, which reached number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Her self-titled debut studio album debuted at No. 51 on Billboard 200 chart. Her single ‘Rewrite the Stars’ was released as a single in 2018. It reached the top twenty of the United Kingdom and Australian national charts and was certified platinum in the US and UK.
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