Some birthdays sneak up on you. Others come on like a freight train. But the best ones can arrive with both a landmark year and landmark achievements. That’s what just happened to Zendaya.
The actress and singer turned 30 on September 1, capping a 2026 that saw her named the year’s highest-grossing actor on the strength of three major releases: “The Drama,” “The Odyssey” and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” Together, those films have earned close to $2 billion globally, and “Dune: Part Three” is still set to arrive in December, meaning her banner year isn’t even finished.
Zendaya’s first television role came on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up,” which premiered in 2010, when she was 13. She spent the next several years navigating the network’s teen slate before making the leap that would define her adult career: a supporting role in 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” where she met her now-husband, Tom Holland. The two married earlier this year.
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Her range widened quickly from there. She went on to lead “The Greatest Showman,” “Challengers” and the “Dune” franchise opposite Timothée Chalamet, while also anchoring HBO’s “Euphoria” as Rue Bennett, a role that made her the youngest actor ever to win the Primetime Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series when she took the award in 2021 at age 24.
Her acting chops even showed in her low-key behavior surrounding her marriage to Holland. Speculation began in January when Zendaya was photographed at the Golden Globes wearing a large ring, then intensified in March when her longtime stylist, Law Roach, told Access Hollywood on a red carpet that the ceremony had already taken place. Holland addressed it directly in a June interview with Esquire, saying family members were all there, and the couple later held a wedding celebration at the Beaverbrook Hotel in Surrey, England, near his hometown of Kingston upon Thames. The pair first met in 2016 during the audition process for “Spider-Man: Homecoming” but did not confirm a relationship publicly until 2021. Their on-screen reunion this year extended beyond Spider-Man: in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” they played Telemachus and Athena, a film that crossed $700 million globally within its first two weeks of release.
The turn to 30 comes as Zendaya has implied she may need a break. In an interview earlier this year, she told Fandango she was considering stepping back from acting for a stretch after such a packed release schedule, joking that she hoped fans wouldn’t “get sick of me.” Her decade in the spotlight has been unusually steady for someone who came up as a child star, a fact she has credited to trusting her own instincts over any outside blueprint for a career.
Happy 30th, Zendaya! You’ve set quite a standard for those of us on either side of that landmark.
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