Acting credits
54
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Issa Rae
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 27Series: 37Crew credits: 18
TMDB ID: 1455336
IMDb ID: nm4793987
Known for: Acting
Born: January 12, 1985
Age: 41
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2027
Years active: 75
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q13560267
Also known as
Jo-Issa Rae Diop • JoIssa Rae Diop
Other jobs
Executive Producer (11)Producer (3)Writer (3)Creator (1)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Issa Rae.
Jun 17, 2027
as Jessica Drew (voice)
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027 • Movie
as Honey Queen (voice)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2026 • Movie
Escape Room
2025 • Movie
Executive Producer
Just One
2025 • Movie
Executive Producer
Contours
2025 • Movie
Producer
One of Them Days
2025 • Movie
as Sintara Golden
American Fiction
2023 • Movie
as Self
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast
2023 • Movie
as Barbie
Barbie
2023 • Movie
Executive Producer
Gray Matter
2023 • Movie
as Jessica Drew (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 • Movie
as Self
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
2023 • Movie
as Eloise
Vengeance
2022 • Movie
as Self
Insecure: The End
2021 • Movie
as Callie Josephson
Coastal Elites
2020 • Movie
Executive Producer
Dark City Beneath the Beat
2020 • Movie
as Leilani
The Lovebirds
2020 • Movie
as Mae Eames
The Photograph
2020 • Movie
as Natural Hair Vlogger / Mom (voice)
Hair Love
2019 • Movie
as April Williams
Little
2019 • Movie
as April Ofrah
The Hate U Give
2018 • Movie
as Rachel
Moonlight
2017 • Movie
as Jane Johnson
A Bitter Lime
2015 • Movie
Producer
Killing Lazarus
2015 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Issa Rae.
as Self • 2 eps
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
2025 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
2025 • Series
as Self • 4 eps
Hollywood Black
2024 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Hot Ones Versus
2024 • Series
as Angela Young (voice) • 12 eps
Young Love
2023 • Series
as Self • 10 eps
Project Greenlight
2023 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Hair Tales
2022 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Sherri
2022 • Series
Writer • 2 eps
Rap Sh!t
2022 • Series
as Wanda Shepard • 1 eps
Roar
2022 • Series
Executive Producer • 20 eps
Sweet Life: Los Angeles
2021 • Series
as Self - Guest Judge • 1 eps
Legendary
2020 • Series
as Issa Rae • 1 eps
#blackAF
2020 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Tamron Hall
2019 • Series
as Butterfly • 1 eps
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Desus & Mero
2019 • Series
as Issa Dee • 44 eps
Insecure
2016 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
2016 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Hot Ones
2015 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 • Series