Issa Rae

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.

Works

Black Mirror

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Release Date2011-12-04

Charactersd Brandy Friday

Episode Count1

Vote Count5566

BoJack Horseman

Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

Release Date2014-08-22

Charactersd Dr. Indira (voice)

Episode Count2

Vote Count2574

A Black Lady Sketch Show

A narrative series set in a limitless magical reality full of dynamic, hilarious characters and celebrity guests presenting sketches performed by a core cast of black women.

Release Date2019-08-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Daffodil Dunham

Episode Count24

Vote Count37

Insecure

Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.

Release Date2016-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Issa Dee

Episode Count6

Vote Count205

Barbie

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Release Date2023-06-18

Charactersd Barbie

Vote Count10052

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

Release Date2023-05-31

Charactersd Jessica Drew (voice)

Vote Count7677

Young Love

The Young family – millennial parents Stephen and Angela, their daughter Zuri and her pet cat Rocky – juggle careers, marriage, parenthood, social issues and multi-generational dynamics while striving to make a better life for themselves.

Release Date2023-09-21

Charactersd Angela Young (voice)

Episode Count12

Vote Count14

Roar

Featuring an all-star cast, this genre-bending anthology series weaves together eight darkly comedic feminist fables that take unexpected approaches to subjects like gender roles, autonomy, and identity.

Release Date2022-04-15

Charactersd Wanda Shepard

Episode Count1

Vote Count47

#blackAF

A father takes an irreverent and honest approach to parenting and relationships.

Release Date2020-04-17

Charactersd Issa Rae

Episode Count1

Vote Count34

The Hate U Give

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Release Date2018-10-19

Charactersd April Ofrah

Vote Count2157

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from every other Spider in the multiverse, and Gwen and his other friends might not be enough to help him.

Release Date2027-06-02

Charactersd Jessica Drew (voice)

Vengeance

A journalist and podcaster from New York City travels to West Texas in order to report on the death of a girl he was hooking up with.

Release Date2022-07-29

Charactersd Eloise

Vote Count412

American Fiction

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Release Date2023-11-10

Charactersd Sintara Golden

Vote Count1140

Little

Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.

Release Date2019-04-04

Charactersd April Williams

Vote Count726

The Lovebirds

A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

Release Date2020-05-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Leilani

Vote Count708

The Photograph

When famed photographer Christina Eames dies unexpectedly, she leaves her estranged daughter, Mae, hurt, angry and full of questions. When Mae finds a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box, she soon finds herself delving into her mother's early life -- an investigation that leads to an unexpected romance with a rising journalist.

Release Date2020-02-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Mae Eames

Vote Count210

Hair Love

When dad has to unexpectedly step in for mom to do his daughter Zuri’s hair before a big event, what seems like a simple task is anything but as these locks have a mind of their own!

Release Date2019-08-14

Charactersd Natural Hair Vlogger / Mom (voice)

Vote Count473

Coastal Elites

A socially distanced comedic satire that spotlights five characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the pandemic.

Release Date2020-09-12

Charactersd Callie Josephson

Vote Count33

Rubberhead

Sarah Silverman hosts the first episode of Rubberhead - a night of comedy shorts featuring some of her favorite performers. With comedy from Nathan Barnatt, Jade Catta-Preta, Michael Cassidy, Shelby Fero, Nathan Fielder, David Dineen-Porter, Kyle Dunnigan, Brett Gelman, Todd Glass, Lauren Lapkus, Natasha Leggero, Emily Maya Mills, Tig Notaro, John C Reilly, Seth Rogen, Nick Rutherford, Rob Schrab, Paul Rust, Laura Silverman, Stoney Sharp, Armen Weitzman, Kulap Vilaysack, Eric Wareheim, Harris Wittels, Charlyne Yi and more!

Release Date2014-11-18

Charactersd Bride 2 (segment "Absorption")

Vote Count5

Untitled Set It Off Remake

A remake of Set It Off.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Moonlight

A look at an all-Black cast reboot of the TV show "Friends".

Release Date2017-08-10

Charactersd Rachel

Perfect Strangers

A group of friends at a dinner party decide to play a risky game where they place their phones face-up on the table and agree to make all texts and phone calls public in an attempt to prove they have nothing to hide.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

A Bitter Lime

A young, wealthy but hopelessly bored couple abandons their posh corporate life in Los Angeles to escape to the Caribbean for what they hope to be a carefree life of excitement. Their risk-taking sense of adventure clashes with the relationship they've built together.

Release Date2015-01-01

Charactersd Jane Johnson

Vote Count1

The series leads the audience through a revelatory journey connecting the personal tales of phenomenal Black women to broader societal and historic themes. The stories shared in the series offer an honest and layered look into the complex culture of Black hair and, ultimately, Black women’s identity, beauty, cultural and social contributions and humanity.

Release Date2022-10-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Project Greenlight

In this revival of the groundbreaking series, Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, and Gina Prince-Bythewood search for Hollywood’s next great director.

Release Date2023-07-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Self

Episode Count10

Insecure: The End

A documentary which follows the cast and crew of HBO’s Insecure throughout the filming of the final season, tracing the show’s cultural impact.

Release Date2021-12-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Self

Vote Count8

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie

Writing, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by the filmmakers who worked so hard to push Across the Spider-Verse several steps farther without losing the magic of the first entry in the series.

Release Date2023-05-09

Charactersd Self

Rap Sh!t

Two estranged high school friends from Miami reunite to form a rap group.

Release Date2022-07-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count29

Sweet Life: Los Angeles

An honest and unique look into what it means to be young, black, and in constant pursuit of one's dreams in the heart of South Los Angeles.

Release Date2021-08-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count20

Vote Count5

One of Them Days

Best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa are about to have One of Them Days. When they discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a comical race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.

Release Date2025-01-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count181

The Dolls

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Gray Matter

All her life, Aurora has been taught by her mother that the superhuman abilities they possess, the abilities that make them unique, also make them dangerous. Now, on one fateful and deadly night, Aurora will find out if her mother was telling the truth and just what consequences the use of her powers might have.

Release Date2023-07-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count50

Just One

Struggling musician Amaru meets mischievous ball of energy Shai while performing a low-end gig at his local community center. When Shai’s parents don’t pick him up, Amaru becomes tasked with the job of taking him home. The only problem- Shai doesn’t remember where he lives.

Release Date2025-02-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Juju

An upcoming horror comedy project from Universal Pictures

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sinkhole

A young family moves into their dream home, except for the mysterious gaping sinkhole in the backyard which manages to fix broken and destroyed things. What if that thing is a person?

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Contours

Upon using a modern art museum as the setting for a role play game that goes hopelessly awry, a deaf couple desperate to rekindle their spark finds the reconnection they seek in their shared experience over an abstract sculpture.

Release Date2025-02-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Untitled One of Them Days Sequel

The sequel to the 2024 comedy. Plot TBA.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Untitled Lupita Nyong'o/Rihanna Project

Plot speculated. Story pitched on Twitter centers on a scheming character (Rihanna) and her computer-smart best friend (Lupita Nyong'o).

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

American Princess

An American woman is drawn into a world of wealth and high society when she unexpectedly falls in love during a trip to London.