Who is Issa Rae and what’s her net worth?
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ISSA Rae is a bright young star in Hollywood who acts, directs, produces, and writes.
The 37-year-old first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl.
Who is Issa Rae?
Jo-Issa Rae Diop, known as Issa Rae, is an American actress, web creator, writer, and producer.
In 2007, Rae graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies.
She has also starred in feature films like The Hate U Give, Little, and The Photograph.
She created and starred in the hit HBO show, Insecure, for which she has received multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
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She is currently nominated for the 2022 Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the show, which wrapped its last season in October.
Rae will voice Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman in the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
She also has a new comedy series titled Rap Sh*t coming out on July 21, 2022, on HBO.
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What is Issa Rae's net worth?
Rae is currently worth $4million as of 2022, according to .
Her 2015 memoir, titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times best-seller.
In 2018, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
In 2021, she starred in Netflix’s The Lovebirds, a romantic comedy, and the HBO political-satire drama Coastal Elites.
In March 2021, Rae's production company, Hoorae, signed a five-year film and television deal with WarnerMedia.
Is Issa Rae married?
On July 26, 2021, Rae announced on social media that she had married her longtime love, Louis Diame.
Diame is a Senegalese businessman and according to a , it lists his profession as an independent banking professional in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
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***ing? No, I don’t need input. I’m good.”
Eagle-eyed fans have traced the couple's romance back to at least 2012.
In a piece about The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Rae's breakout project, Diame was first identified as her "boyfriend."
Two of Rae's Insecure co-stars accidentally confirmed her engagement news back in 2019.
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“We all found out in different ways because we’re all on different text chains. We talk at different times, so we all found out at different times in different ways,” Jay Ellis told .
Yvonne Orji added, "The reaction was all the same, like, ‘You out here in these streets getting married, boo?!’ That was the reaction.”