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!.

Known For

Deadpool 2

as Storm (uncredited)

X-Men: Apocalypse

as Ororo Munroe / Storm

Barbie

as Barbie

Dark Phoenix

as Ororo Munroe / Storm

Love, Simon

as Abby Suso

Straight Outta Compton

as Kim

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

as Valentina

All the Bright Places

as Kate

Anyone But You

as Claudia

tick, tick... BOOM!

as Susan Wilson