Issa Rae Parents: Meet Abdoulaye Diop & Delyna Diop

Issa Raw was born in Los Angeles, California to Abdoulaye Diop, a paediatrician and neonatologist from Senegal, and her mother, Delyna Marie Diop a teacher from Louisiana.

Her parents met in France when they were both in school. She has four siblings. Her father has a medical practice in Inglewood, California. The family lived in Dakar, Senegal for a short period during their childhood.

She was raised mostly in Potomac, Maryland, where she grew up with things that aren’t considered black, like the swim team and street hockey and Passover dinners with Jewish best friends.

When Rae was in sixth grade, her family moved to the affluent View Park-Windsor Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, where she attended a predominantly black middle school. Rae graduated from King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science, where she started acting.[1] Her parents divorced when she was in high school.