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Issa Rae
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…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2027
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Movie Jessica Drew (voice)
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2026
Babies
Movie Becky
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2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Movie Honey Queen (voice)
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2026
Picture This
TV show
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2025
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
TV show Self
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2025
Escape Room
Movie
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2025
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
TV show Self
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2025
Just One
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Contours
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
One of Them Days
Movie Producer
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self
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2024
Hot Ones Versus
TV show Self
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2023
American Fiction
Movie Sintara Golden
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2023
Young Love
TV show Angela Young (voice)
- 2023
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2023
Barbie
Movie Barbie
More credits
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2023
Gray Matter
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Project Greenlight
TV show Self
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2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Movie Jessica Drew (voice)
- 2023
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2022
The Hair Tales
TV show Self
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
Vengeance
Movie Eloise
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2022
Rap Sh!t
TV show Writer
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2022
Roar
TV show Wanda Shepard
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2021
Insecure: The End
Movie Self
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2021
Sweet Life: Los Angeles
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
Coastal Elites
Movie Callie Josephson
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2020
Dark City Beneath the Beat
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Legendary
TV show Self - Guest Judge
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2020
The Lovebirds
Movie Leilani
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2020
#blackAF
TV show Issa Rae
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2020
The Photograph
Movie Mae Eames
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Hair Love
Movie Natural Hair Vlogger / Mom (voice)
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2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
TV show Daffodil Dunham
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2019
Little
Movie April Williams
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2019
Desus & Mero
TV show Self
