Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 12, 1985
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
70 titles
Issa Rae
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Jessica Drew (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Honey Queen (voice)
Picture This
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
Self
Escape Room
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
Self
Just One
Executive Producer
Contours
Executive Producer
One of Them Days
Producer
Hollywood Black
Self
Hot Ones Versus
Self
American Fiction
Sintara Golden
Young Love
Angela Young (voice)
Barbie
Barbie
Project Greenlight
Self
Gray Matter
Executive Producer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Jessica Drew (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
Self
The Hair Tales
Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
Sherri
Self - Guest
Vengeance
Eloise
Rap Sh!t
Writer
Roar
Wanda Shepard
Insecure: The End
Self
Sweet Life: Los Angeles
Executive Producer
Coastal Elites
Callie Josephson
Dark City Beneath the Beat
Executive Producer
Legendary
Self - Guest Judge
The Lovebirds
Leilani
#blackAF
Issa Rae
The Photograph
Mae Eames
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
Hair Love
Natural Hair Vlogger / Mom (voice)
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Daffodil Dunham
Little
April Williams
Desus & Mero
Self
The Hate U Give
April Ofrah
Moonlight
Rachel
Insecure
Issa Dee
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Hot Ones
Self
Killing Lazarus
Producer
A Bitter Lime
Jane Johnson
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Rubberhead
Bride 2 (segment "Absorption")
BoJack Horseman
Dr. Indira (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest