Alexandra Shipp
Actor
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
X-Men: Apocalypse
as Ororo Munroe / Storm 2016
Barbie
as Barbie 2023
Dark Phoenix
as Ororo Munroe / Storm 2019
Love, Simon
as Abby Suso 2018
Straight Outta Compton
as Kim 2015
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
as Valentina 2009
All the Bright Places
as Kate 2020
Anyone But You
as Claudia 2023
tick, tick... BOOM!
as Susan Wilson 2021
Shaft
as Sasha Arias 2019
Jexi
as Cate Finnegan 2019
A Dog's Way Home
as Olivia 2019
Once Upon a Deadpool
as Ororo Monroe / Storm (uncredited) 2018
Dude
as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein 2018
Spinning Man
as Anna 2018
Tragedy Girls
as McKayla Hooper 2017