Issa Rae 1985 40
Issa Rae 1985 40
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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2027 Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Jessica Drew (voice)
2025 Perfect Strangers Screenplay, Producer
2025 Untitled Lupita Nyong'o/Rihanna Project Writer
2025 Juju Producer
2025 American Princess
2025 Sinkhole Producer
2025 Just One Executive Producer
2025 Contours Executive Producer
2025 One of Them Days Producer
2023 American Fiction as Sintara Golden
2023 Barbie as Barbie
2023 Gray Matter Executive Producer
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Jessica Drew (voice)
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie as Self
2022 Vengeance as Eloise
2021 Insecure: The End as Self Executive Producer
2020 Coastal Elites as Callie Josephson
2020 The Lovebirds as Leilani Executive Producer
2020 The Photograph as Mae Eames Executive Producer
2019 Hair Love as Natural Hair Vlogger / Mom (voice)
2019 Little as April Williams
2018 The Hate U Give as April Ofrah
2017 Moonlight as Rachel
2015 A Bitter Lime as Jane Johnson
2014 Rubberhead as Bride 2 (segment "Absorption")