Undercover” began filming in late 2014 with then 18-year-old Zendaya and premiered on January 18, 2015. A little boy can look up to a girl and say, ‘I want to be like this girl.’ And that’s awesome.” Young women are able to look at the screen and see that they can be anything, that they can do it all. And I thought the idea of a girl doing a ‘guy role’ was really important. “There weren’t any leads or families of color, and I felt like that was something that needed to happen. Zendaya channeled her inner mime at the premiere of Megamind held at Mann’s Chinese Theatre on October 30, 2010, in Hollywood, California
“The only reason I wanted to come back to the Disney Channel is because there was a lack of diversity at that time,” she said. Undercover.” In an interview with The Seattle Times, she explained her decision to take on the part. The show became the second highest-rated premiere in Disney Channel’s history.Īfter “Shake It Up” ended in 2013, Zendaya pursued another role-the star of the upcoming show, “K.C. The year 2009 marked her first starring role in a sitcom called “Shake It Up” where she auditioned for CeCe Jones.īut instead of receiving the part, she was cast as Rocky Blue alongside Bella Thorne who played CeCe. Zendaya as high school student and undercover spy K.C. She was featured in an iCarly toys commercial, and in a Sears commercial, she danced with Selena Gomez. In the early days of her budding career, Zendaya rubbed elbows with other Disney stars. But I do remember seeing her up there on that stage, and just the few little moments that she had her spotlight, it was like, ‘whoa’.” Disney Child Star She further adds, “I had to push her to go to it.
In an interview with Datebook, Stoermer remembers Zendaya as being so shy to the point of repeating kindergarten and how everything changed when she started taking theater classes: “ brought her out of her shell.” The then 14-year-old actress Zendaya Coleman at the Los Angeles Premiere “You Again” at the El Capitan Theatre on September 22, 2010, in Hollywood, California Young ThespianĪs a young girl, Zendaya found her beginnings in the theater, specifically, the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda (or Cal Shakes) where her mother Claire Stoermer worked as the theater manager. What it took for her to become this prominent begins long before her stint as KC Cooper. However, the matter remains that she has not always been breaking this big since day one.
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She only continues to be on the rise as she remains well-regarded and multi-awarded in her acting career with one of her most recent accolades being a Primetime Emmy from playing the lead in the HBO TV series Euphoria. An actress well known for her versatility, Zendaya has come a long way from her breakout role as the titular character of the Disney TV show, K.C.