Zendaya
Zendaya, the daughter of a stage manager whose name means to give thanks in a Zimbabwe dialect, spent her early years hanging around and eventually appearing in productions at the California Shakespeare Theater and other theatrical companies near her Bay Area hometown where she also attended the Oakland School for the Arts. After finding early success as a model for AMcy's and OIld Navy and a back-up dancer in a Selena Gomez Sears commercial, she made her television debut in 2010 on Disney Channel's popular comedy Shake It Up with Bella Thorne. She continued her tween domination with the 2012 TV
