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Alexandra Ruth Shipp (born July 16, 1991) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the third season of Nickelodeon's mystery teen drama series House of Anubis (2011-2013) playing the role of KT Rush, but rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014) and Kimberly Woodruff in the Oscar-nominated film Straight Outta Compton (2015).

Shipp is best known for playing Storm in the X-Men franchise, starting with X-Men: Apocalypse, Abby Suso in the 2018 romantic comedy Love, Simon, and Susan Wilson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom!.

From Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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Rating

63.9M

Budget

308M

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Acting

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2025 Kung Fury 2 as Rey Porter

2025 Glenrothan

2025 Midnight Executive Producer

2025 Forbidden Fruits

2025 Violent Ends as Emma

2025 Full Moon Retreat

2024 House of Anubis: Christmas Special as KT Rush

2024 The Good Half as Zoey Abbot

2023 Anyone But You as Claudia

2023 Barbie as Barbie

2023 Space Oddity as Daisy Taylor

2022 Asking For It as Regina

2022 Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! as Self

2021 tick, tick... BOOM! as Susan Wilson

2021 Silk Road as Julia

2020 Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) as Rachel

2020 Endless as Riley Jean Stanheight Executive Producer

2020 All the Bright Places as Kate

2019 Jexi as Cate Finnegan

2019 Shaft as Sasha Arias

2019 Dark Phoenix as Ororo Munroe / Storm

2019 A Dog's Way Home as Olivia

2018 Once Upon a Deadpool as Ororo Monroe / Storm (uncredited)

2018 The Everything as Rose

2018 Deadpool 2 as Storm (uncredited)

2018 Dude as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein

2018 Spinning Man as Anna

2018 Love, Simon as Abby Suso

2017 Tragedy Girls as McKayla Hooper

2016 X-Men: Apocalypse as Ororo Munroe / Storm

2016 The Deal as Monica

2015 Straight Outta Compton as Kim

2014 Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B as Aaliyah Haughton

2014 Drumline: A New Beat as Dani Bolton

2013 House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra as KT Rush

2009 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel as Valentina

Genres

7.80 Documentary 1

7.79 History 1

7.02 Music 6

6.95 Drama 14

6.91 Romance 6

6.90 Adventure 6

6.79 Family 4

6.66 Comedy 14

6.65 Mystery 3

6.60 Fantasy 5

6.51 TV Movie 1

6.45 Action 6

6.16 Science Fiction 3

6.14 Crime 3

5.66 Thriller 3

5.65 Animation 1

5.35 Horror 2