Zendaya quickly climbed the career ladder. First, she started playing in the Disney Channel series, and now she can boast of appearances in the largest blockbuster productions. However, Zendaya is not an actress who shuns ambitious cinema. She has just become the youngest winner of an Emmy for her role in the series “Euphoria”, where she played the role of a teenage drug addict.
Every great career begins with Disney
Zendaya Coleman , because that is her full name, was born in 1996 in Oakland, California. Her dad is African American and her mother is Dutch.
Zendaya began her career on the Disney Channel with the series “Dancing rules!”, In which she appeared alongside the redheaded Bella Thorne . Apparently, each of them had a different patent for a career in the film industry. Thorne ended up starring in B-horror movies and directing pornographic films , and Zendaya appeared in the highest-grossing films.
However, before the 24-year-old conquered Hollywood, she struggled with playing for the Disney Channel for a few more years. She was saved by a role in the production of Marvel Cinematic Universe, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
The actress was involved in the latest film version of the adventures of the spider man. In the last two parts of “Spider-man” he played the character of MJ, and comic book fans about Peter Parker immediately began to speculate that Zendaya would be the beloved of the main character, Mary Jane.
Musical, drugs and melange
Another big role in Zendaya’s acting output was the musical “The King of Entertainment”, where she played the circus acrobat PT Barnum, who got into an affair with the white-skinned rich man. Therefore, the film does not lack threads dealing with the topic of racial discrimination.
Not only is Zendaya able to sing and dance, but also for the purposes of the film, she performed most of the acrobatics, for which she was praised by her screen partner, Zac Efron .
Zendaya’s breakthrough was the character of Rue in the HBO series “Euphoria” . The actress was very credible in it as a high school student who abuses heavy drugs.
Rue finds a soul mate in transsexual Jules ( Hunter Schafer ), a new girl in the neighborhood who looks like an ethereal elf and Sailor Moon cross. The girls become inseparable and their relationship is the strongest point of the young adult series.
Zendaya’s performance has been widely recognized, as evidenced by the TV Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, which she won on Sunday, September 20. Thus, the star went down in history as the youngest laureate of this statuette.
– I know that our TV series is not always the best example of this, but there is hope in young people. I want to tell all my peers working on the street that I can see you, admire you and thank you – she said during the gala.
Zendaya does not slow down and it can already be said that she is one of the most hard-working actresses of the young generation. In December this year, another screening of Frank Herbert’s novel “Dune” will be released in cinemas . This time, not David Lynch, but Denis Villeneuve , known from “Blade Runner 2049” , was behind the camera. The 24-year-old American was given the role of Chani (in the version of Lynch she was played by Sean Young known from “Twin Peaks” ), the partner of Paul Atryda (Timothee Chalamet).