ISSA Rae is a young bright star in Hollywood who acts, directs, produces, and writes. Rae, HBO Max, and Miramax are reviving the critically acclaimed docu-series Project Greenlight about talented female filmmakers. Who is Issa Rae? Jo-Issa Rae Diop, known as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. Rae first garnered attention for […]
ISSA Rae is a young bright star in Hollywood who acts, directs, produces, and writes.
Rae, HBO Max, and Miramax are reviving the critically acclaimed docu-series Project Greenlight about talented female filmmakers.
Jo-Issa Rae Diop, known as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer.
Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl.
In 2007, Rae graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies.
She created and stars in the hit HBO show, Insecure, for which she has received multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
In 2018, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Issa Rae is currently worth $5 million as of 2021 according to Celebrity Net Worth.
This year, she starred in Netflix’s The Lovebirds, a romantic comedy, and the HBO political-satire drama, Coastal Elites.
Her 2015 memoir, titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times best-seller.
In March 2021, Rae’s production company, Hoorae, signed a five-year film and television deal with WarnerMedia.
She is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Louis Diame, a Senegalese businessman.
Issa Rae first wore her engagement ring publicly on the cover of Essence magazine’s April 2019 issue.
She’s chosen to keep her relationship mostly under the radar.
“I don’t want any input,” Rae explained to Vogue.
“As a writer, you put everything on the table. I’ll take input on kids if I’m going to have kids. How do I not kill the kids? Work? Give me the input. Any other aspect of my life? Give me the input. But who I’m f*cking? No, I don’t need input. I’m good.”
Egle-eyed fans have traced the couple’s romance back to at least 2012.
In a Washington Post piece about The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Rae’s breakout project, Diame is identified as her “boyfriend.”
