Hunter Schafer and Normani Top the List of Forbes 30 Most Influential People Under 30

"Although she has no formal training in acting, Yalitza took audiences by storm last year as Cleo, the main role in Oscar-winning film Roma. She was nominated for best actress at the Oscars for the part, making her only the second Mexican to ever garner a nomination in that category." — Forbes

"In 2017, Reinhart was propelled to fame after playing Betty Cooper on the CW's hit series Riverdale. She's moved to the big screen with roles in 2018's Galveston and 2019's Hustlers, in which she starred alongside Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Keke Palmer, and Constance Wu. She's taking her entertainment career one step further with an executive producer credit on her next film, romance Chemical Hearts, that's due out next year. Lili has been open about her struggles with depression and balancing fame and mental health." — Forbes

"The Fifth Harmony alum has turned into a pop superstar in her own right thanks to a show-stopping VMAs performance and wildly popular collaborations with fellow Under 30 alums including Khalid, Calvin Harris, and Sam Smith. "Dancing With A Stranger," her duet with Smith, ranks as the world's most-played radio track in 2019." — Forbes

"As a proudly transgender woman, Schafer got her start as a model for the likes of Dior and Marc Jacobs. She made her acting debut this year with a lead role on HBO's Euphoria." — Forbes

"Martin was only 10 years old when her role as Diane Johnson on Black-ish catapulted her to fame. The role of the precocious youngest daughter on Kenya Barris's ABC sitcom garnered her nominations at the NAACP Image Awards, the BET Awards, and the SAG Awards. But it was this past year that she took her talents behind screen as the executive producer of the film Little, in which she also starred alongside Regina Hall and Issa Rae. With the film, she became the youngest executive producer in Hollywood--and a successful one at that; the film grossed $50 million at the box office on a $20 million budget. Next up? In addition to continuing her role on Black-ish, she's set to produce and star in the upcoming film adaption of Amari and the Night Brothers." — Forbes

"Houston-born rapper Megan Thee Stallion rose to fame 2019's seasonal anthem "Hot Girl Summer." Known for her sexually explicit verses and swagger, Hot Girl Meg (as she's known on Instagram) has attracted a loyal fanbase and over 7 million monthly listeners on Spotify. She won BET Awards for Hot Ticket Performer and Best Mixtape in 2019, and her May 2019 mixtape "Fever" peaked at No. 5 on the U.S. rap charts." — Forbes

"King has been acting since she was six years old, but had her big break playing the titular Ramona in the 2010 film Ramona and Beezus opposite Selena Gomez. She's had role after role since then, including star turns in the Netflix film Kissing Booth and in Hulu's miniseries The Act. Her portrayal of Gypsy Rose in the latter earned her an Emmy nomination this year." — Forbes

"This sister act released their debut album of dreamy pop, "The Kids Are Alright," on Beyoncé's imprint Parkwood Entertainment in March. The record included "Warrior," which was featured in Disney's A Wrinkle in Time; the pair also supported Jay Z and Beyoncé on the European leg of On The Run II." — Forbes

"Deutch got her start starring in gothic fantasy Beautiful Creatures in 2013 and has been snagging lead roles ever since, including in Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! and comedy Why Him?. This year she took her talents to television, starring alongside Ben Platt in Netflix's The Politician." — Forbes

"Teyana Taylor is a singer-songwriter-actress-choreographer-director-model signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music label. She contributed vocals to West's 2010 opus "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and her 2018 studio album "K.T.S.E." (Keep The Same Energy) received widespread critical acclaim after debuting at No. 17 on the Billboard 200." — Forbes

"The actor and model is best known for playing Angel Evangelista in the FX series Pose, a role that has garnered them high levels of acclaim. They've been racking up roles on the big screen, too, including in Lena Waithe's Queen and Slim and in Escape Room 2. As a model, Moore has worked with designers like Altuzarra, Louis Vuitton, and Calvin Klein, and was the first trans person to be on the cover of Elle magazine." — Forbes

"The 24-year-old Philly native is a rapper and R&B artist whose poetic 2018 debut — the 15-track, 15-minute visual album "Whack World" — received high praise from Pitchfork, The New York Times and earned her the cover of the Fader's Winter 2018 issue. Her 2017 single "Mumbo Jumbo" was nominated for the Best Music Video Grammy Award." — Forbes

"Maggie Rogers, who grew up on the Eastern shore of Maryland, first gained mainstream acclaim as a student at NYU when Pharrell guest-lectured her class and heard her single "Alaska." The video of the music mogul's reaction to the song went viral and vaulted Rogers to pop culture prominence. Since, Rogers' 2019 album Heard It in a Past Life debuted at two on the Billboard charts. Her 2019 Heard it in a Past Life tour included headliner stops at Coachella and Lollapalooza and featured philanthropic partnerships with Planned Parenthood and the ACLU." — Forbes

"An A-list model and actress, Ratajkowski has 24.4 million followers on Instagram. She launched her own fashion line, Inamorata Woman, in 2017." — Forbes

"In less than a year, Walker has gone from supporting act to headline artist, selling over 75,000 tickets on the road this fall and generating over $3 million in sales. Her debut album, Over It, featured collaborations with 30 Under 30 alumni including Bryson Tiller, and Jhené Aiko — and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts in October." — Forbes

"Tyler, The Creator, a rapper-singer-songwriter-producer turned fashion designer/founder of Golf Wang and music festival Camp Flog Gnaw, is one of the most fascinating music multi-hyphenates on the planet. Tyler original rose to fame as a teenage member of polarizing alternate rap group Odd Future. All of his five solo albums have landed in the top 5 of the Billboard 200. He has been criticized for offensive language and his off-kilter public persona." — Forbes

"Cole and his twin brother Dylan started acting at eight months old before their breakout roles on Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and its sequel The Suite Life on Deck. After taking a break from acting to study archeology at New York University, Sprouse is back with a starring role as Jughead in The CW's Riverdale a dark take on the Archie comics that has earned him three Teen Choice Awards. In 2019 he starred in teen drama film Five Feet Apart, which brought in more than $90 million on a $7 million budget." — Forbes

"Dylan and his twin brother Cole started acting at eight months old before their breakout roles on Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and its sequel The Suite Life on Deck. After doing a number of independent and short films, Sprouse is set to hit the big screen in After We Collided. When he's not acting, he oversees All-Wise Meadery in Brooklyn, where he brews honey wine. The business, which is only its second year, is already profitable with revenue of over $1 million for 2019." — Forbes

"The Georgia native rode from unknown teen to superstar singer in one year flat. Last December, he uploaded "Old Town Road" to independent music service Amuse; as spins surged through the spring, Billboard booted the trap-inflected tune from its country charts. By Summer, a major label deal and a series of remixes rocketed the song to 1.8 billion spins in the U.S. en route to a record-setting 19 weeks atop the overall singles rankings. That helped Lil Nas X earn an estimated $14 million pretax, lassoing the No. 18 spot on our list of country's top earners this fall." — Forbes

"The Canadian actor found his first acting job on Craigslist, but after his breakout performance as Mike Wheeler on the Netflix hit series Stranger Things, he doesn't need to scout job sites. In 2017, he landed his first major film role, playing Richie Tozier in the film adaptation of Stephen King's It and will appear in Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters sequel, due out in 2020." — Forbes

"Miller first took the stage as a child, singing opera at Lincoln Center and with the Metropolitan Opera. After their first first feature film, 2008's Afterschool, Miller appeared on a number of television series, including Californication and Royal Pains. They drew critical praise for their portrayal as the homicidal son of Tilda Swinton's character in the 2011 thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Miller has received wide acclaim for their roles in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Now, they have been set to reprise their role as superfast superhero Flash in the character's upcoming standalone film." — Forbes

"After her feature film debut as Kimberly Woodruff in 2015's Straight Outta Compton, Shipp has had no trouble booking roles. Her biggest, and most lucrative, so far is that of the weather-controlling Storm in the X-Men franchise. She inherited the part from Halle Barry for 2016's X-Men: [Apocalypse] and reprised the role in X-Men: Dark [Phoenix]. Outside of the franchise, she's had significant roles in Love, Simon and Netflix original film Dude, and will appear in the upcoming Netflix film All the Bright Places." — Forbes

"Noblezada has already taken Broadway by storm. She collected a Tony nomination for originating the role of Eurydice in Hadestown, the second performance for which she received a nomination. In high school she won acclaim as one of the finalists for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards at the age of 17. She left the Northwest School of the Arts in the spring of 2014 to star in Miss Saigon in London, a role she later reprised in the Broadway revival and for which received her first Tony nomination." — Forbes

"Feldstein debuted on the big screen in 2016 with a supporting role in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and has been landing gigs ever since. In 2017, she won critical attention for costarring in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and made her Broadway debut opposite Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!. In 2019, she costarred in critical hit Booksmart and had her first recurring television role in FX's What We Do in the Shadows. She's returning to the network next year in American Crime Story: Impeachment; she will star as Monica Lewinsky in the true-crime anthology series." — Forbes

"The actress who is perhaps best known for her lead role on the BBC America series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has successfully moved behind the camera. Her first feature as co-writer and director, After Everything, premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2018. She became one of the youngest female studio directors in history when it was announced in 2019 that she would helm the film adaptation to John Green's bestselling young adult novel Turtles All the Way Down." — Forbes

"Goldfarb has managed to parlay her viral and comedic Instagram @OfficialSeanPenn into a career in TV writing with stints on Broad City and The Eric Andre Show, and full-time writing gigs on Freeform's Alone Together and The Late Late Show With James Corden. In September, she left 'The Late Late Show' to become the executive story editor of the upcoming TBS show Chad. In addition, she hosts the Glowing Up podcast with Esther Povitsky and, next year, is teaming up with Comedy Central to relaunch her pop culture podcast This Week Had Me Like." — Forbes

"Peoples Wagner started her career as an intern in the fashion closets at Teen Vogue. Seven years later, she became Editor In Chief of the magazine, where she has bolstered coverage of politics, inclusion and health in addition to fashion and culture. Prior to leading Teen Vogue, she won an ASME Next Award in 2017 for her work as the fashion editor of The Cut." — Forbes

"Hylton won an Emmy for 'Zero Tolerance,' an episode of HBO's VICE News Tonight focusing on a Guatemalan family's reunification after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. At VICE, she has also covered the protests in Puerto Rico and efforts by Florida lawmakers to prevent former felons from reclaiming their voting rights." — Forbes

"Adeyemi is the author of Children of Blood and Bone (Holt Books, 2018), the first novel in a young adult fantasy series, which reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. The book remains on the list nearly two years later and is being developed as a movie by Lucasfilm." — Forbes

"An entrepreneur, activist and current Harvard student, at age 16, Okamoto founded PERIOD, the largest youth-run women's health NGO, which works to end the so-called tampon tax in the U.S. and curtail menstruation-related poverty and stigma. She recently published her first book, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement." — Forbes

"Gou founded production company Kindred Spirit, which produces content aimed at a global audience and showcases underrepresented voices. Her most recent films, The Farewell and Honey Boy, both showed at Sundance in 2019 and were acquired by A24 and Amazon, respectively, in multi-million dollar deals. Gou has debuted each of her first four feature films at Sundance. In addition to running her company, she heads international production growth for her family's Taiwanese film studio, the Central Motion Picture Corporation, where she previously worked on such films as Martin Scorsese's Silence." — Forbes