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Happy Birthday!
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman was born in Oakland, California, USA. Zendaya means "to give thanks" in Shona, an African dialect. Her middle name, Maree, is the French derivation of her mother's name Marie. -
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Childhood adventures
Before this, she participated at the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda, California thanks to her mother who was the manager. She was constantly in contact with acting growing up. This helped her find her passions, acting,dancing and singing. -
Becoming famous
Zendaya began her professional career working as a fashion model for Macy's, Mervyns and Old Navy on 2009. She auditioned later in November for the role of CeCe Jones to join the cast of Dance Dance Chicago, later changed to Shake It Up!, but was selected as Rocky Blue instead. -
Shake it up!
Shake It Up was watched by 6.2 million viewers on premiere, becoming Disney Channel's second highest-rated premiere in Disney Channel’s 27-year history. The show follows the adventures of CeCe Jones (Bella Thorne) and Rocky Blue (Zendaya) as they star as background dancers on a local show, Shake It Up Chicago. -
Between U and Me
"Between U and Me: How to Rock Your Tween Years with Style and Confidence" is Zendaya's first book. It guides the reader through a life full of confidence and has a lot of style ideas to help you conquer the world and live your dreams. -
ZENDAYA
ZENDAYA, her album, is released. It has 8 songs under Hollywood Records label. Her most famous song of this album , "Replay", has been one of her most known songs. -
Zapped!
Zendaya starred in this Disney Channel movie along Spencer Boldman. The movie features the actress as Zoey Stevens, a 16 year old girl that can control boys through an app, then finding herself humiliating her brothers and lying to her love interest, Jackson Kale. "Zapped!" had more than 5.7 million spectators on the realease day. -
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K.C. Undercover
This Disney Channel comedy series was originally named "Super Awesome Katy" and casted for in November 2013. The series was set to star Zendaya, who would play 16-year-old Katy Cooper, who discovers that both her parents are spies who expect her to follow in their footsteps. Zendaya turned around the character's personality, interests and her name in order to act on the show. The show lasted for 3 seasons and had a total of 73 episodes. -
Something New
Zendaya realeased a song featuring Chris Brown called Something New on all music streaming apps. -
Lip Sync Battle
She stars on the show Lip Sync Battle with Spider-man costar Tom Holland and does an impression of Bruno Mars to win the crowd's support. -
Spiderman: Homecoming
She starred in this movie with actor Tom Holland as MJ Jones. This movie collected more than 880 million dollars while it was on theaters. -
The Greatest Showman
Her latest roll was in the musical The Greatest Showman as Anne Wheeler. In this movie she is Philip's love interest, played by Zac Efron. This movie has a soundtrack which has been top in the UK Bilboard charts since two weeks after the movie premiered. -
CR cover features Zendaya
Zendaya made it to the Crazy Reality cover with rapper Cardi B on January 2018. This magazine also included an article about how her life has changed with fame and interviews with both Cardi B and Zendaya.
