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.

Filmography

• 2027Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse — Jessica Drew (voice)
• 2026Babies — Becky
• Picture This
• 2026The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — Honey Queen (voice)
• 2025Contours — Executive Producer
• 2025Escape Room
• 2025Just One — Executive Producer
• 2025One of Them Days — Producer
• Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television — Self, Executive Producer
• 2023American Fiction — Sintara Golden
• 2023Barbie — Barbie
• 2023Gray Matter — Executive Producer
• Project Greenlight — Self, Executive Producer
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Jessica Drew (voice)
• Young Love — Angela Young (voice)
• Rap Sh!t — Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• Roar — Wanda Shepard
• 2022Vengeance — Eloise
• 2021Insecure: The End — Self, Executive Producer
• Sweet Life: Los Angeles — Executive Producer
• #blackAF — Issa Rae
• 2020Coastal Elites — Callie Josephson
• 2020Dark City Beneath the Beat — Executive Producer
• 2020The Lovebirds — Leilani, Executive Producer
• 2020The Photograph — Mae Eames, Executive Producer
• A Black Lady Sketch Show — Daffodil Dunham, Butterfly, Jess, Trina, Executive Producer
• 2019Hair Love — Natural Hair Vlogger / Mom (voice)
• 2019Little — April Williams
• 2018The Hate U Give — April Ofrah
• 2017Moonlight — Rachel
• Insecure — Issa Dee, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2015A Bitter Lime — Jane Johnson
• 2015Killing Lazarus — Producer
• BoJack Horseman — Dr. Indira (voice)
• 2014Rubberhead — Bride 2 (segment "Absorption")
• Black Mirror — Brandy Friday
• The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl — J, Creator
• Good People, Bad Things — Producer
• Juju — Producer
• One of Them Days 2 — Producer
• Perfect Strangers — Screenplay, Producer
• Sinkhole — Producer
• Untitled Friendship Breakup Film — Producer
• Untitled Lupita Nyong'o/Rihanna Project — Writer
• Untitled Set It Off Remake — Producer

Appearances as themselves (26)

• No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski — Self
• Hollywood Black — Self
• Hot Ones Versus — Self
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie — Self
• 2023Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Cast — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Hair Tales — Self
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self
• Legendary — Self - Guest Judge
• Desus & Mero — Self, Self - Illustrious Guest
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• Conan — Self - Guest
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• The Oscars — Self - Presenter