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 (11)
Anyone But You
as Claudia
Barbie
as Barbie
tick, tick... BOOM!
as Susan Wilson
All the Bright Places
as Kate
Jexi
as Cate Finnegan
Shaft
as Sasha Arias
Dark Phoenix
as Ororo Munroe / Storm
A Dog's Way Home
as Olivia
Dude
as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein
Love, Simon
as Abby Suso
Straight Outta Compton
as Kim