Issa Rae
Also Known As: Jo-Issa Rae Diop, Ίσα Ρέι, ایسا رای
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Issa Rae, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Insecure: The End
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-26
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2027-06-02
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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Barbie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-19
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American Fiction
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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A Bitter Lime
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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The Hate U Give
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Little
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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American Princess
Overview: An American woman is drawn into a world of wealth and high society when she unexpectedly falls in love during a trip to London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Lovebirds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-22
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The Photograph
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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Hair Love
Overview: 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!
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-14
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Perfect Strangers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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Vengeance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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Rubberhead
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-18
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Coastal Elites
Overview: A socially distanced comedic satire that spotlights five characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the pandemic.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-12
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Moonlight
Overview: A look at an all-Black cast reboot of the TV show "Friends".
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-10
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-09
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