Issa Rae

Known for ActingBorn 1985-01-12 (age 41)Los Angeles, California, USA

JoIssa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), known professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. She achieved recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO comedy series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she was nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl (2011–2013). Her 2015 memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times bestseller. In 2020, Rae formed the production company Hoorae Media. Rae has also appeared in films, with roles in the drama The Hate U Give (2018), the fantasy comedy Little (2019), the romance The Photograph (2020), the romantic comedy The Lovebirds (2020), the comedy thriller Vengeance(2022), and the comedies Barbie and American Fiction (both 2023). She also had a voice role in the short film Hair Love (2019) and voiced Jess Drew / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). In 2018 and 2022, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world and in 2014 in the Forbes '30 Under 30' list in the entertainment section. She was recognized with the Peabody Trailblazer Award and the Producers Guild of America Visionary Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Issa Rae, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

A Bitter Lime

Hollywood Black

Hot Ones Versus

BoJack Horseman

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Escape Room

Black Mirror

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

The Hate U Give

Hair Love

Legendary

American Fiction

Insecure

Conan

Hot Ones

Dark City Beneath the Beat

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Barbie

Gray Matter

Little

One of Them Days

Vengeance

Saturday Night Live

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Oscars

The Photograph

The Daily Show

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Finding Your Roots

The Lovebirds

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

#blackAF

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

The Hair Tales

Coastal Elites

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Young Love

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Rap Sh!t

Roar

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Desus & Mero

Rubberhead

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Insecure: The End

Tamron Hall

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

The View