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!.
Filmography
Glenrothan
2026
as Amy
Forbidden Fruits
2026
as Fig
Violent Ends
2025
as Emma
House of Anubis: Christmas Special
2024
as KT Rush
The Good Half
2024
as Zoey Abbot
Anyone but You
2023
as Claudia
Barbie
2023
as Barbie
Space Oddity
2023
as Daisy Taylor
Asking For It
2022
as Regina
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!
2022
as Self
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
as Susan Wilson
Silk Road
2021
as Julia
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
2020
as Rachel
Endless
2020
as Riley Jean Stanheight
All the Bright Places
2020
as Kate
Jexi
2019
as Cate Finnegan
Shaft
2019
as Sasha Arias
Dark Phoenix
2019
as Ororo Munroe / Storm
A Dog's Way Home
2019
as Olivia
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018
as Ororo Monroe / Storm (uncredited)
Deadpool 2
2018
as Storm (uncredited)
Dude
2018
as Amelia Bergbaum-Goldstein
Spinning Man
2018
as Anna
Love, Simon
2018
as Abby