Details
Alternate Names: Jo-Issa Rae Diop
Physical Characteristics: N/A
Career
First Appearances: - Rubberhead (2014) as Bride 2 (segment "Absorption")
Most Important Roles: - Insecure: The End (2021) as Self
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027) as Jessica Drew (voice)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) as Jessica Drew (voice)
- Barbie (2023) as Barbie
- American Fiction (2023) as Sintara Golden
- A Bitter Lime (2015) as Jane Johnson
- The Hate U Give (2018) as April Ofrah
- Little (2019) as April Williams
- The Lovebirds (2020) as Leilani
Career Highlights: - Insecure: The End (2021)
- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
- Barbie (2023)
- American Fiction (2023)
- A Bitter Lime (2015)
- The Hate U Give (2018)
- Little (2019)
- The Lovebirds (2020)
Awards
Awards: - Nominated for 1 BET Award - Best Actress (2024)
- Nominated for 1 BET Award - Best Actress (2022)
- Won BET Award - Best Actress (2020)
- Nominated for 1 BET Award - Best Actress (2019)
- Nominated for 1 BET Award - Best Actress (2018)
- Nominated for 1 Critics Choice Award - Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2022)
- Nominated for 1 Critics Choice Award - Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2021)
- Nominated for 1 Critics Choice Award - Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2019)
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Scripted Variety Series (2023)
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (2022)
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch Series (2022)
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2021)
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Sketch Series (2021)
- Nominated for 1 Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (2022)
- Nominated for 1 Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (2018)
- Nominated for 1 Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (2017)
- Nominated for 1 Satellite Award - Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical (2021)
- Won Satellite Award - Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical (2019)
- Nominated for 1 Satellite Award - Best Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical (2018)
- Nominated for 1 Gotham Independent Film Award - Breakthrough Series - Shortform (2022)
Full Biography
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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