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The series eventually went viral through word of mouth, blog posts, and social media, resulting in mainstream media coverage and attention. The story is told through a first-person narrative as J usually reveals how she feels about her circumstances through voice-over or dream sequence. The show follows the life of J (played by Rae) as she interacts with co-workers and love interests who place her in uncomfortable situations.
Rae's web series Awkward Black Girl premiered on YouTube in 2011. Diop worked odd jobs and at one point was struggling to decide between business school and law school, but eventually abandoned both ideas when Awkward Black Girl started taking off in 2011.
Oliver and Diop started taking classes together at the New York Film Academy. Īfter college, Diop received a theater fellowship at The Public Theater in New York City. At Stanford, Diop met Tracy Oliver, who helped produce Awkward Black Girl and starred on the show as Nina. As a college student, she made music videos, wrote and directed plays, and created a mock reality series called Dorm Diaries for fun. In 2007, Diop graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies. Her parents divorced when she was in high school. Diop graduated from King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science, where she started acting. She was raised mostly in Potomac, Maryland, where she grew up with "things that aren't considered 'black,' like the swim team and street hockey and Passover dinners with Jewish best friends." When Diop was in sixth grade, her family moved to the affluent View Park-Windsor Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she attended a predominantly black middle school. The family lived in Dakar, Senegal, for a short period during her childhood. Her father has a medical practice in Inglewood, California. Her parents met in France, when they were both in school. Her father, Abdoulaye Diop, is a pediatrician and neonatologist from Senegal, and her mother, Delyna Marie Diop (née Hayward), is a teacher from Louisiana. Jo-Issa Rae Diop was born in Los Angeles, California. Rae provided the voice work for the short film Hair Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2020.
She will also voice Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Rae has also starred in feature 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), and the comedy thriller Vengeance (2022). In 20, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Her 2015 memoir, titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times best-seller. Rae has achieved wider recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO television series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she has been nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by Black people. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl. Jo-Issa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian.
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