She also appeared as a back-up dancer in a Sears commercial featuring Disney star Selena Gomez. Zendaya began her career working as a fashion model for Macy's, Mervyns, and Old Navy. Career 2009–2015: Shake It Up and Dancing with the Stars In 2015, while pursuing an acting career, she graduated from Oak Park High School. When Zendaya was in seventh grade, the family moved to Los Angeles. She played Lady Anne in Richard III, Celia in As You Like It, and took part in a production of Twelfth Night. Her stage credits include performances in several of William Shakespeare's plays. She studied at the CalShakes Conservatory program and at the American Conservatory Theater.
Reviewing the latter, Keith Kreitman of San Mateo Daily Journal depicted performance of the 11-year-old at the time as "a pure delight". At the Berkeley Playhouse, she played Little Ti Moune in Once on This Island, and in the TheaterWorks' production in Palo Alto, she played a character originally written as male, Joe, in Caroline, or Change. Zendaya attended Oakland School for the Arts and, while still a student, was cast in several roles in area theaters. She also spent two years dancing hula with the Academy of Hawaiian Arts. At eight, Zendaya joined a hip-hop dance troupe called Future Shock Oakland and was a member for three years. She helped her seat patrons, sold fundraising tickets, and was inspired by the theatrical performances to pursue acting. She grew as a performer in part at the nearby California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda, California, where her mother worked a summer job as the house manager. At age six, she and two friends from the school performed a play there for Black History Month. She attended Fruitvale Elementary School, where her mother taught for two decades. Zendaya, whose name derives from the Shona name Tendai (meaning "to give thanks", ), has five older siblings. Her father is African-American, with roots in Arkansas her mother has German and Scottish ancestry. Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman was born on September 1, 1996, in Oakland, California to teachers Claire Stoermer and Kazembe Ajamu Coleman.
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Her role as a struggling, drug addict teenager in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–present) made Zendaya the youngest recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She produced and starred as the titular spy, K.C. She had her breakthrough role as Rocky Blue on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up (2010–2013), and in 2013, she was a contestant on the sixteenth season of the dance competition series Dancing with the Stars.
Zendaya began her career as a child model and backup dancer. She has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award. ə/ zən- DAY-ə born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( / z ə n ˈ d eɪ.