Issa Rae

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1985 age 0

   Born

2. 2018 age 33

   CreditThe Hate U Give

3. 2019 age 34

   CreditLittle

4. 2020 age 35

   CreditThe Lovebirds

5. 2022 age 37

   CreditVengeance

6. 2023 age 38

   CreditAmerican Fiction

   CreditBarbie

7. 2025 age 40

   CreditOne of Them Daysproducer

• RHRegina Hall2 titles
• TRTracee Ellis Ross2 titles
• DCDove Cameron1 title
• LTLio Tipton1 title
• RFRay Fearon1 title
• DHDavid Heyman1 title
• NGNcuti Gatwa1 title
• AMAnthony Mackie1 title
• ACAnna Camp1 title
• IAIsabella Amara1 title

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• There was such a dearth of films like that…And the high-school teen movie is a genre that I love. Everything at that age is so heightened and dramatic, and high-school movies capture that so perfectly. But those films are all white, too; there’s no black teen movie genre that exists in the same way.

  Issa Rae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “I was trying to stand out, trying to be the class clown and be super-funny. But everybody thought I was lame and hated me…I’ve experienced that real sense of feeling out of place plenty in my life.

  Issa Rae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• …I found the world of nonprofits funny to begin with just because having worked there, you see that people are so altruistic and they're so benevolent and they're pretty selfless and you're working generally for a great cause.But the atmosphere within the work environment can be oddly competitive. People want the credit. Sometimes they don't listen to the people they're trying to help. And for me, this white guilt is so prevalent at this nonprofit. And they're so - they treat the kids as this pity party. And for me, I would hate to work in an environment like this, but it's ripe for comedy.

  Issa Rae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “My parents helped me and they hurt me…My mom was extremely pro-Black, and I believed her. My dad is Senegalese, and I grew up around my dark-skinned cousins and just thought that they were the most beautiful women in the world. I was surrounded by beautiful dark people. And then middle school hit, and I was like, Oh, they think I’m ugly. They think I’m big. They think I’m unattractive. I went back to my mom like, ‘What the f—k?! Y’all lied to me my whole life. What is this?!’ I started realizing, Mom, you’re light-skinned. So I don’t know what you were talking about. It’s not like you can relate to being dark. And your hair is not the same texture as mine. So what do you know about telling me I’m beautiful? Why would you lie to me? That definitely had an impact on how I saw myself.

  Issa Rae, CC BY-SA 4.0