Zendaya, who plays the complex Rue, got her start on TV by playing Rocky Blue on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up alongside Bella Thorne. She continued her career on the Disney Channel by playing the lead in K.C. Undercover before landing the role of MJ in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Additionally, she starred alongside Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman as acrobat Anne Wheeler in The Greatest Showman.