Jo-Issa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), known professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. She gained recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO comedy series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she was nominated for numerous Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.

Rae first attracted attention with her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl (2011–2013). Her 2015 memoir The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl became a New York Times bestseller. In 2020, Rae founded the production company Hoorae Media.

Rae has also appeared in films, with roles in the drama The Hate U Give (2018), the fantasy comedy Little (2019), the romantic film The Photograph (2020), the romantic comedy The Lovebirds (2020), the comedy thriller Vengeance (2022), and the comedies Barbie and American Fiction (both 2023). She also voiced a role in the short film Hair Love (2019) and voiced Jess Drew / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

In 2018 and 2022, Rae was included in Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2014, in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the entertainment category. She was honored with the Peabody Trailblazer Award and the Producers Guild of America Visionary Award.