Alexandra Shipp

Born: 1991-07-16 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Known For: Acting

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

2023

Barbie as Barbie
Anyone But You as Claudia
Space Oddity as Daisy Taylor

2022

Asking For It as Regina
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! as Self

2021

Silk Road as Julia
tick, tick... BOOM! as Susan Wilson

2020

Endless as Riley Jean Stanheight
All the Bright Places as Kate
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) as Rachel

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
Shaft as Sasha Arias
Lights Out with David Spade as Self - Panelist
A Little Late with Lilly Singh as Self
Dark Phoenix as Ororo Munroe / Storm
Jexi as Cate Finnegan
A Dog's Way Home as Olivia

2018

Deadpool 2 as Storm (uncredited)
Spinning Man as Anna
Once Upon a Deadpool as Ororo Monroe / Storm (uncredited)
Dude as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein
Love, Simon as Abby Suso

2017

Tragedy Girls as McKayla Hooper

2016

X-Men: Apocalypse as Ororo Munroe / Storm
The Deal as Monica

2015

Straight Outta Compton as Kim

2014

Drumline: A New Beat as Dani Bolton
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B as Aaliyah Haughton

2013

Ray Donovan as Tiffany
House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra as KT Rush

2011

Awkward. as Abby Martin
Switched at Birth as Ashley
House of Anubis as KT Rush
Anubis Unlocked as Self

2010

Victorious as Elise

2009

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel as Valentina