Alexandra Shipp facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Alexandra Shipp
Shipp at the 2019 WonderCon
Born	Alexandra Ruth Shipp Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation	Actress singer
Years active	2009–present

Alexandra Ruth Shipp is an American actress and singer who 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 musical drama tick, tick... BOOM!.

Early life

Shipp was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Her mother is a Kundalini yoga teacher, and her father is a musician. Her father is black and her mother is white. She has two brothers, James and Jordan, and a stepsister, Kasia. Shipp was educated at Squaw Peak Elementary School, Arizona School for the Arts, and St. Mary's Catholic High School in Phoenix. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career.

Career

In 2009, Shipp made her acting debut with a minor role in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. She went on to star in the third season of Nickelodeon's mystery teen drama series House of Anubis, playing the role of KT Rush.

In 2014, Shipp gained attention for her roles as Dani Raymond in the VH1 television film sequel Drumline: A New Beat and Aaliyah Haughton, the title role, in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B. For the latter performance, Shipp also sang. She next portrayed Ice Cube's wife, Kimberly Woodruff, in the biographical drama film Straight Outta Compton, which chronicled the careers of hip hop group N.W.A. In 2016, she co-starred in Bryan Singer's superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse as Ororo Munroe/Storm, a weather-controlling mutant previously portrayed by Halle Berry. In 2018, she starred alongside Nick Robinson and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. in Love, Simon and Kathryn Prescott and Lucy Hale in Dude, both high school comedy films.

She reprised the role of Ororo Munroe / Storm in the 2019 film Dark Phoenix, and, the same summer, also starred as Sasha Arias in the Shaft sequel. In 2021 she starred in the film adaptation of tick, tick... BOOM! as Susan.

Shipp is set to star in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. It is scheduled for release on July 21, 2023.

Personal life

Shipp publicly came out as a member of the LGBT community in June 2021, though she did not specify a label.

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel	Valentina
2015	Straight Outta Compton	Kimberly Woodruff
2016	X-Men: Apocalypse	Ororo Munroe / Storm
2017	Tragedy Girls	McKayla Hooper
2018	Spinning Man	Anna
2018	Love, Simon	Abby Suso
2018	Dude	Amelia
2018	Deadpool 2	Ororo Munroe / Storm	Uncredited cameo
2019	A Dog's Way Home	Olivia
2019	Dark Phoenix	Ororo Munroe / Storm
2019	Shaft	Sasha
2019	Jexi	Cate Finnegan
2020	All the Bright Places	Kate
2020	Endless	Riley Jean Stanheight
2020	Father of the Bride, Part 3(ish)	Rachel Banks	Short film
2021	Silk Road	Julia
2021	Tick, Tick... Boom!	Susan
2022	Space Oddity	Daisy Taylor
2022	Kung Fury 2	Rey Porter	Post-production
2023	Barbie	TBA	Post-production

Television

Video games

Music videos

Discography

Singles

Promotional singles

Music videos

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Alexandra Shipp para niños