Issa Rae Net Worth

Net Worth:	$8 Million
Date of Birth:	January 12, 1985 (39 years old)
Gender:	Female
Profession:	Author, Actress, Producer
Nationality:	United State Of America

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What is Issa Rae’s Net Worth?

Issa Rae is an English performer, author, comedian, and filmmaker who has a net worth of $8 million. For her involvement in the YouTube web comedy Awkward Black Girl, Rae first came to public recognition.

Rae has kept expanding her YouTube channel since 2011, which now includes a variety of Black-made short films, web series, and other content.

Childhood

Jo-Issa Rae Diop was born in California. Her mother, Delyna Marie Diop (née Hayward), is a Louisiana teacher, and her father, Abdoulaye Diop, is a pediatrician and neonatologist from Senegal. She is one of four siblings.

Her father’s medical office is located in Inglewood, California. In her early years, the family spent a brief time in Dakar, Senegal.

She grew up with “activities that aren’t considered ‘black,’ like the swim team and street hockey and Passover dinners with Jewish best friends” in Potomac, Maryland, where she spent most of her childhood.

When Diop was in sixth grade, her family relocated to Los Angeles’ wealthy View Park-Windsor Hills neighborhood, where she attended a middle school with a sizable black student body.

When Diop first began acting, she was a student at King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science. When she was in high school, her parents separated. Their native language is French Diop.

A Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies was awarded to Diop by Stanford University in 2007. She developed a parody reality television show called Dorm Diaries while she was a college student, as well as plays, and music videos.

Tracy Oliver, who started to work on Awkward Black Girl’s production and played Nina, was a Stanford classmate of Diop’s who introduced him to the show. When Diop graduated from college, The Public Theater in New York City offered him a fellowship.

The New York Film Academy is where Oliver and Diop first began taking classes jointly. When Awkward Black Girl began to gain popularity in 2011, Diop ultimately abandoned both of these plans while working odd jobs and attempting to choose between the business school and law school.

Career

The first episode of Rae’s web series Awkward Black Girl debuted on YouTube in 2011. The program focuses on J’s (Rae’s) interactions with coworkers and potential love interests, who put her in awkward circumstances.

J frequently expresses her feelings about her situation through voice-over or dream sequences, therefore the story is portrayed from her first-person perspective.

Through social networks, blog entries, and word-of-mouth, the series finally became popular and received notice from the mainstream media. Rae and producer Tracy Oliver made the decision to use Kickstarter to generate money for the rest of the first season.

The remainder of season one was made available on Rae’s YouTube channel on August 11, 2011, thanks to contributions totaling $56,269 from 1,960 people. Rae and Larry Wilmore started developing the pilot episode of a comedy series in 2013.

The show, which followed an African-American woman in modern times through her unpleasant situations, was ultimately given the name Insecure. The pilot was picked up by HBO at the beginning of 2015, and it was later approved.

Since its debut in 2016, the show has garnered praise from critics; NPR’s Eric Deggans stated that Rae “has crafted a series that seems revolutionary just by poking fun at the lives of a typical, twenty-something black woman.”

Insecure was recognized in 2018 at the 77th Peabody Awards for “developing a series that realistically reflects the lives of everyday young, Black individuals in contemporary culture.”

In 2015, Rae published her debut book, a memoir titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, which quickly rose to New York Times bestseller status. She shares her struggles with not belonging and with not always being viewed as “black enough” in the book as she recounts her life through a collection of amusing vignettes.

Rae was added as a new voice to Google Assistant on October 11, 2019, according to Google. “Ok Google, talk like Issa,” was a command that allows customers to have Google Assistant speak in Rae’s voice.

On Friday, October 1, 2021, Issa’s Voice would still be accessible. Likewise in 2019, Rae collaborated with Atlantic Records through her recently established record label “Raedio” to produce the song “Kinda Love” by singer-rapper TeaMarrr.

A five-year film and television deal with WarnerMedia was inked by Rae’s production industry, Hoorae, in March 2021. Rae’s reality television show Sweet Life: Los Angeles was formed as part of this agreement and was launched in 2021.

Relationship

The name Rae was given at birth, Jo-Issa, is a combination of the names of her grandparents, Joyce and Isseu. Her middle name, Rae, is a tribute to an artist aunt.

In July 2021, Rae wed her longtime partner, Senegalese billionaire Louis Diame, in a secret ceremony in France. On the cover of Essence magazine’s April 2019 issue, Rae debuted her engagement ring.

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