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Issa Rae (b. 1985)

Alias:
Jo-Issa Rae Diop
Ίσα Ρέι
ایسا رای

Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Born:
January 12, 1985

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Issa Rae, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Executive Producer:
2020  The Lovebirds
2020  The Photograph
2021  Insecure: The End
2023  Gray Matter
2025  Contours
2025  Just One

Producer:
2020  The Lovebirds
2020  The Photograph
2021  Insecure: The End
2023  Gray Matter
2025  Contours
2025  Just One
2025  One of Them Days
????  Juju
????  Perfect Strangers
????  Sinkhole

Screenplay:
2020  The Lovebirds
2020  The Photograph
2021  Insecure: The End
2023  Gray Matter
2025  Contours
2025  Just One
2025  One of Them Days
????  Juju
????  Perfect Strangers
????  Sinkhole

Writer:
2020  The Lovebirds
2020  The Photograph
2021  Insecure: The End
2023  Gray Matter
2025  Contours
2025  Just One
2025  One of Them Days
????  Juju
????  Perfect Strangers
????  Sinkhole
????  Untitled Lupita Nyong'o/Rihanna Project

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Creator:
2016  Insecure
2022  Rap Sh!t

Executive Producer:
2016  Insecure
2019  A Black Lady Sketch Show
2021  Sweet Life: Los Angeles
2022  Rap Sh!t
2023  Project Greenlight

Producer:
2016  Insecure
2019  A Black Lady Sketch Show
2021  Sweet Life: Los Angeles
2022  Rap Sh!t
2023  Project Greenlight

Script:
2016  Insecure
2019  A Black Lady Sketch Show
2021  Sweet Life: Los Angeles
2022  Rap Sh!t
2023  Project Greenlight
????  The Dolls

Writer:
2016  Insecure
2019  A Black Lady Sketch Show
2021  Sweet Life: Los Angeles
2022  Rap Sh!t
2023  Project Greenlight
????  The Dolls

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