Alexandra Shipp
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!.
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Acting History
2026
Forbidden Fruits as Fig
2025Violent Ends as Emma
2025Glenrothan
2024House of Anubis: Christmas Special as KT Rush
2024Laid as Aubrey
2024The Good Half as Zoey Abbot
2023Anyone But You as Claudia
2023Barbie as Barbie
2023Space Oddity as Daisy Taylor
2022Asking For It as Regina
2022Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! as Self
2021tick, tick... BOOM! as Susan Wilson
2021Silk Road as Julia
2020Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) as Rachel
2020Endless as Riley Jean Stanheight
2020All the Bright Places as Kate
2019Jexi as Cate Finnegan
2019A Little Late with Lilly Singh as Self
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Lights Out with David Spade as Self - Panelist
2019Shaft as Sasha Arias
2019Dark Phoenix as Ororo Munroe / Storm
2019A Dog's Way Home as Olivia
2018Once Upon a Deadpool as Ororo Monroe / Storm (uncredited)
2018Deadpool 2 as Storm (uncredited)
2018Dude as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein
2018Spinning Man as Anna
2018Love, Simon as Abby Suso
2017Tragedy Girls as McKayla Hooper
2016X-Men: Apocalypse as Ororo Munroe / Storm
2016The Deal as Monica
2015Straight Outta Compton as Kim
2014Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B as Aaliyah Haughton
2014Drumline: A New Beat as Dani Bolton
2013Ray Donovan as Tiffany
2013House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra as KT Rush
2011Awkward. as Abby Martin
2011Switched at Birth as Ashley
2011Anubis Unlocked as Self
2011House of Anubis as KT Rush
2010Victorious as Elise
2009Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel as Valentina
—Kung Fury 2 as Rey Porter
—The Autopsy of Albert Kemper as Riley Shaw
—Midnight
—Lost Planet as Ally Gage
—Full Moon Retreat