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!.

Filmography

• 2026Forbidden Fruits — Fig
• 2026Glenrothan — Amy
• 2026Misty Green — Bella
• 2025Violent Ends — Emma
• 2024A Very Anubis Christmas Eve — KT Rush
• Laid — Aubrey
• 2024The Good Half — Zoey Abbot
• 2023Anyone but You — Claudia
• 2023Barbie — Barbie
• 2023Space Oddity — Daisy Taylor
• 2022Asking For It — Regina
• 2021Silk Road — Julia
• 2021tick, tick... BOOM! — Susan Wilson
• 2020All the Bright Places — Kate
• 2020Endless — Riley Jean Stanheight, Executive Producer
• 2020Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) — Rachel
• 2019A Dog's Way Home — Olivia
• 2019Dark Phoenix — Ororo Munroe / Storm
• 2019Jexi — Cate Finnegan
• 2019Shaft — Sasha Arias
• 2018Deadpool 2 — Storm (uncredited)
• 2018Dude — Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein
• 2018Love, Simon — Abby
• 2018Once Upon a Deadpool — Ororo Monroe / Storm (uncredited)
• 2018Spinning Man — Anna
• 2017Tragedy Girls — McKayla Hooper
• 2016The Deal — Monica
• 2016X-Men: Apocalypse — Ororo Munroe / Storm
• 2015Straight Outta Compton — Kim
• 2014Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B — Aaliyah Haughton
• 2014Drumline: A New Beat — Dani Bolton
• 2013House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra — KT Rush
• Ray Donovan — Tiffany
• Awkward. — Abby Martin
• House of Anubis — KT Rush
• Switched at Birth — Ashley
• Victorious — Elise
• 2009Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — Valentina
• Full Moon Retreat
• Kung Fury 2 — Rey Porter
• Lost Planet — Ally Gage
• Midnight — Emma, Executive Producer
• The Autopsy of Albert Kemper — Riley Shaw
• White Elephant

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2022Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! — Self
• A Little Late with Lilly Singh — Self
• Lights Out with David Spade — Self - Panelist
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• Anubis Unlocked — Self
• Good Morning America — Self - Guest