Alexandra Shipp

Acting · Born 1991-07-16 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Biography

Alexandra Ruth Shipp (born July 16, 1991) is an American actress and singer. She starred in the third season of Nickelodeon's mystery teen drama series House of Anubis (2011-2013) playing the role of KT Rush, but rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014) and Kimberly Woodruff in the Oscar-nominated film Straight Outta Compton (2015). Shipp is best known for playing Storm in the X-Men franchise, starting with X-Men: Apocalypse, Abby Suso in the 2018 romantic comedy Love, Simon, and Susan Wilson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical drama Tick, Tick... Boom!.

Filmography

• Anyone But You as Claudia
• The Good Half as Zoey Abbot
• Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! as Self
• Barbie as Barbie
• Violent Ends as Emma
• Straight Outta Compton as Kim
• Drumline: A New Beat as Dani Bolton
• Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B as Aaliyah Haughton
• X-Men: Apocalypse as Ororo Munroe / Storm
• Dude as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein