Issa Rae
American actress and writer (born 1985) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jo-Issa Rae Diop[1] (born January 12, 1985),[2] credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer.[3][4] Founder of Hoorae Media, she achieved wider recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO television series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she was nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards.[5][6]
Issa Rae | |
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Born | Jo-Issa Rae Diop (1985-01-12) January 12, 1985 (age 39) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Other names | Joissa Diop-Diame |
Education | Stanford University (BA) |
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Years active | 2011–present |
Notable work | Awkward Black Girl, Insecure |
Spouse |
Louis Diame (m. 2021) |
Website | issarae |
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Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl.[7] Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by black people.[8][9] Her 2015 memoir, titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times bestseller.
Rae has also starred in feature 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 (2023), receiving nominations at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics' Choice Movie Awards with the cast. She also voiced Jess Drew / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Beyond the Spider-Verse (upcoming). Rae provided the voice work for the short film Hair Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2020.[10]
In 2018 and 2022, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world,[11][12] and in 2014 in the Forbes '30 Under 30' list in the entertainment section.[13] She was recognized with the Peabody Trailblazer Award and the Producers Guild of America Visionary Award.