Issa Rae
Acting
Born 1985-01-12
Los Angeles, California, USA
72 credits
Time 100 2
Gracie Awards 1
OkayAfrica 100 Women 1
Awards
Won 2 Time 100 Awards
Time 100 2 won
- 2022 Time 100 Won
- 2018 Time 100 Won
Gracie Awards 1 won
- — Gracie Awards Won
OkayAfrica 100 Women 1 won
- 2017 OkayAfrica 100 Women Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
50 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Saturday Night Live
Conan
Sherri
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Black Mirror
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The View
BoJack Horseman
Hot Ones
Barbie
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Desus & Mero
Tamron Hall
Insecure
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Hot Ones Versus
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Finding Your Roots
Roar
A Black Lady Sketch Show
The Hate U Give
Hollywood Black
Legendary
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Young Love
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
#blackAF
American Fiction
The Lovebirds
The Hair Tales
Little
The Photograph
Vengeance
Project Greenlight
Hair Love
Moonlight
Coastal Elites
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast
Rubberhead
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
Producing
14 credits
Insecure
A Black Lady Sketch Show
One of Them Days
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
Rap Sh!t
The Lovebirds
The Photograph
Just One
Sweet Life: Los Angeles
Contours
Project Greenlight
Gray Matter
Dark City Beneath the Beat
One of Them Days 2
Other credits
2 credits
Writing
2 credits
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