An American Performer: How Much is Zendaya Net Worth?

Zendaya is the stage name of American performer and actress Maree Stoermer Coleman. She’s won a slew of awards, including two Primetime Emmys, among others.

Zendaya Net Worth in 2022

In addition to being an actress, singer, dancer, and producer, Zendaya has a net worth of $20 million. Zendaya has gone from being a child star in the Disney series to a bona fide Hollywood celebrity and thriving businesswoman. Her first job in the industry was as a model for Macy’s, Old Navy, and iCarly goods. She has also performed as a dancer in various advertisements and music videos. The roles of Rocky Blue in “Shake It Up” (2010–2013), K.C. Cooper in “K.C. Undercover” (2015–2018), Rue Bennett in HBO’s “Euphoria” (2019–present), and MJ in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017) and “Spider-Man: Far From Home” (2018) have brought Coleman widespread recognition as an actor (2019). In 2021, she acted in and produced the film Malcolm & Marie, and she also produced the film KC Undercover and a number of her music videos.

5 Years’ Net Worth Trend

Zendaya Net Worth in 2022	$20 million
Zendaya Net Worth in 2021	$19 million
Zendaya Net Worth in 2020	$18 million
Zendaya Net Worth in 2019	$17 million
Zendaya Net Worth in 2018	$16 million

Zendaya’s Early Life

Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman into the world on September 1, 1996, in Oakland, California. Claire Stoermer, her mother, has Scottish and German roots, while Kazembe Ajamu Coleman, her father, is African-American. One of six children, Zendaya’s mother was a teacher at the elementary school where Zendaya and her five siblings all received their early education. Coleman had her stage debut at the age of six in a play celebrating Black History Month, and she has continued to star in shows at the California Shakespeare Theater, where her mother has worked as the house manager during the summers. Zendaya worked at the box office and sold fundraising tickets, and her time there sparked an interest in acting that has continued to this day. Coleman began dancing with the Oakland hip-hop group Future Shock at age 8, and she has since performed with the Academy of Hawaiian Arts’ hula company. Zendaya’s theatrical resume includes roles in local productions including “Once on This Island” at the Berkeley Playhouse and “Caroline, or Change” at TheaterWorks, all of which she performed in while a student at Oakland School for the Arts. She has appeared in several Shakespeare plays, including “Richard III,” “Twelfth Night,” and “As You Like It,” for which she trained at the American Conservatory Theater and the CalShakes Conservatory program. In the seventh grade, Coleman and her family relocated to Los Angeles, where she attended and eventually graduated from Oak Park High School in 2015.

Career & Profession of Zendaya

When Zendaya’s “Shake It Up” launched in 2010 to 6.2 million viewers, it was the second highest-rated premiere in Disney Channel history (since the network’s inception in 1983). Coleman returned to her character from “Shake It Up,” which ran for three seasons and a total of 75 episodes, in an episode of “Good Luck Charlie” in 2011. The song “Watch Me,” which she sang with her “Shake It Up” co-star Bella Thorne, peaked at #86 on the “Billboard” Hot 100 chart after its release as a promotional single in 2011. In the same year that she voiced Fern in “Pixie Hollow Games,” Zendaya presented Disney Channel’s “Make Your Mark: Ultimate Dance Off 2011.” In 2012, she starred in the Disney Channel movie “Frenemies” and made an appearance on the ABC show “A.N.T. Farm.” In 2013, she voiced Lollipop in the film “Super Buddies,” placed second on “Dancing with the Stars,” and released the album “Zendaya,” which peaked at #51 on the “Billboard” 200 charts. She went on to star in the Disney Channel movie “Zapped” (2014), make an appearance on ABC’s “Black-ish” (2015), and then play the title role in the 75-episode “K.C. Undercover” from 2015 to 2018.

Both “Spider-Man: Homecoming” ($880.2 million worldwide) and “The Greatest Showman” ($435.9 million) starring Coleman in 2017 were box office smashes. In 2019, Zendaya returned to the character of MJ in “Spider-Man: Far from Home,” which was even more popular, grossing $1.132 billion worldwide, and in October 2019, it was revealed that she would be returning to “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Her voice can be heard as Chris Jenkins in “Duck, Duck, Goose” and as Meechee in “Smallfoot,” and she appeared in three episodes of “The OA” on Netflix in 2019.

She also began playing Rue Bennett on HBO’s “Euphoria” in 2019, a role for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. Zendaya performed the lead role in “Malcolm & Marie,” voiced by Lola Bunny in “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” and was cast as Chani in “Dune” in 2021. She’ll be playing Ronnie Spector in a biopic based on Ronnie’s 1990 autobiography Be My Baby, which she’ll also be producing in 2020.

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Endorsement

Zendaya has been the spokesperson for numerous brands, including Material Girl by Madonna, CoverGirl, Beats by Dre, and Chi by Talia Balsam. In 2019, she was a spokesmodel for Lancôme, and in 2020, she modeled for Valentino and Bulgari. In 2020, she received the Visionary Award at the CNMI Green Carpet Fashion Awards for “her efforts in promoting diversity and inclusion in fashion and entertainment.”

Personal Life of Zendaya

They’ve been incredibly careful to keep it quiet and out of the public eye, but they’ve gone on vacations together and try to spend as much time as possible with one another, a source told “People” magazine in 2017, fueling speculations that Zendaya and her “Spider-Man” co-star Tom Holland were dating. After years of denying the accusations, Coleman and Holland were caught kissing in Tom’s car in Los Angeles in July 2021. Both Odell Beckham Jr. of the NFL and Zendaya’s “Euphoria” co-actor Jacob Elordi have been linked to the pop singer in rumors. She has stated, “My primary reason for being a vegetarian is that I’m an animal lover — absolutely not because I love veggies.” Coleman is a vegetarian and has stated, “My main reason for being a vegetarian is that I’m an animal lover.”

In the past, Zendaya has helped organizations like the American Heart Association, DonorsChoose.org, Toys for Tots, Donate My Dress, and Friends for Change. She has been a spokesman for various organizations, including the Verizon Foundation’s #WeNeedMore project and UNICEF’s Trick-or-Treat campaign, which she was designated an ambassador for in 2012. Coleman joined Michelle Obama’s “When We All Vote” initiative in September 2020 and attended the Women’s March on Washington in January 2017 and the George Floyd protests in June 2020.

Nominations & Awards

Zendaya’s performance as Euphoria in “Euphoria” earned her a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2020. She also won the International Online Cinema Award, the People’s Choice Award, and the Satellite Award for her work on the series. Coleman has been nominated for eleven Teen Choice Awards and has won four of them: Choice Summer Movie Star: Female for “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in 2017, Choice Movie Actress: Drama, Choice Movie: Ship (shared with Zac Efron), and Choice Music: Collaboration (shared with Efron) for “The Greatest Showman,” and Choice Summer Movie Actress for “Spider-Man: Far from Home” in 2019. She has won seven Kids’ Choice Awards, including Favorite TV Actress (2016), Favorite Female TV Star (2017, 2019) for “K.C. Undercover,” and Favorite Movie Actress (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and “The Greatest Showman” (2018).

In 2019, Zendaya was named Favorite Female Movie Star of the Year by the People’s Choice Awards for her role in “Spider-Man: Far from Home,” and in 2020, she was named Favorite Style Star of the Year. She also won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. At the 2021 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, she was presented with the Seeger Award, and the following year, she was awarded Best Celebrity by the Shorty Awards. Coleman received the NextGen Award at the Critics’ Choice Celebration of Black Cinema Awards in 2021 for his work on “Malcolm & Marie,” as well as the Virtuosos Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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