Alexandra Shipp Biography
Born: July 16, 1991
Date of Birth: July 16, 1991
Growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, Alexandra Shipp began performing in plays at a young age. She met her manager when she was 14 years old and her very first audition was for Nickelodeon.
She would move to Los Angeles when she was 17 to pursue her acting career and made her movie debut in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009), in the role of Valentina. Following guest appearances on youth-oriented shows such as Switched at Birth and Victorious, Alexandra landed a regular role on the Nickelodeon TV series House of Anubis, set in an English boarding school. More guest appearances followed, on Ray Donovan and Days of Our Lives, as well as roles in TV movies such as Drumline: A New Beat, in which she starred alongside Nick Cannon and and the biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, playing the title role of Aaliyah Haughton.
She played Storm in the major motion picture X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Kim in Universal Pictures’ Straight Outta Compton (2015), starring Paul Giamatti. She reprised her role in X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2018) and Dark Phoenix (2019), played Anna in the crime thriller Spinning Man (2018), opposite Pierce Brosnan and Guy Pearce, and played Abby in the teen drama Love, Simon (2018).
Most recently, she played a lead role in the updated Shaft (2019), as John Shaft Jr.'s longtime friend, Sasha.
Alexandra, who has completed a role in A Dog's Way Home (2019), is also currently working on releasing an EP.
Filmography:
Spinning Man (2018)
Love, Simon (2018)
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2018)
Tragedy Girls (2017)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)