---
name: "Kara Young"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kara-young"
fi1m_id: "kara-young"
imdb_id: "nm4526977"
tmdb_id: 1964315
wikidata_id: "Q118134506"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T19:47:35.069638+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kara Young

## Identity

Kara Young

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kara-young
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kara-young
- **IMDb ID:** nm4526977
- **TMDB ID:** 1964315
- **Wikidata ID:** Q118134506
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Young_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118134506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4526977/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1964315

Actor. Born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Young_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118134506, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4526977/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1964315

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Is God Is*](https://film.one/film/is-god-is.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Kara Young

> Kara Young acts with her whole body, hands never still, the grin arriving a second before the blow. Cinema has only just started giving her room to do it: *Is God Is* does, *I Love Boosters* does not.

Watch Kara Young's hands in *Is God Is* (2026). Racine is the twin who wants the killing, and Young never lets her rest: fingers drumming, reaching for food, worrying at whatever is loose in the car, and then a grin that arrives a second before the violence does. It is a performance built out of motion. Mallori Johnson's Anaia keeps asking whether they have to go through with it; Young's Racine has already answered and is looking for the keys.

She got there from the stage, and slowly. Young made her debut at the Public Theater in 2016, joined LAByrinth Theater Company the following year and built her name off-Broadway before *Clyde's* (2021) took her to Broadway, with *Purlie Victorious* (2023) and *Purpose* (2025) after it. Screen work ran alongside in small parts: *Chemical Hearts* (2020), *Master* (2022), then Jones in Boots Riley's series *I'm a Virgo* (2023). The two films of 2026 are the first time cinema has given her anything like the space the theatre had.

Only one of them uses it. Riley cast her again in *I Love Boosters* (2026) as a character credited as Crying Black Mother, and she gets one scene that is exactly as funny as the name suggests and no more. That is how Riley works, jokes about systems with the people as labels, and it is no mark against her that a label cannot be played for depth. Aleshea Harris, adapting the play, does the opposite: she writes Racine and Anaia as two people who have only ever had each other and are not sure that was enough, and Young plays that doubt underneath all the forward motion. The scenes between the sisters on the drive west, sharing food, needling each other, going quiet, moved us more than the plot had any right to, and Young's part in that is the stillness, which she holds back until it counts.

The stage habit shows on screen. She is small and is often cast younger than she is, and she reads as someone who has been told to keep her hands still and has decided not to. Directors with an argument to make have found her useful, Riley twice, Harris once, and the risk is that she becomes a reliable piece of somebody else's point. *Is God Is* shows what happens when a writer gives her a sister and a car instead of a caption. We would like more directors to do what Harris did: write her a person and get out of the way.

## Biography

Kara Young is an American actress. She is credited as Crying Black Mother in the 2026 film *I Love Boosters*.

Young has appeared in the series *I’m a Virgo* (2023) as Jones and the film *Is God Is* (2026) as Racine. On stage, she has performed in several Broadway productions, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for *Purlie Victorious* (2024) and *Purpose* (2025). She received nominations in the same category for *Clyde’s* (2022) and *Cost of Living* (2023).

She was born in Harlem, New York City.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, ibdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *I Love Boosters* (2026), Fi1m 64, as Crying Black Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md)
- *Is God Is* (2026), Fi1m 74, as Racine — [page](https://film.one/film/is-god-is.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *I Love Boosters* (2026), as Crying Black Mother — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md)
- *Is God Is* (2026), as Racine — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/is-god-is.md)
- *We Strangers* (2025), as Mari Winters
- *Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch* (2024), as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
- *Blow Up My Life* (2023), as Charlie August
- *Sis* (2023), as Michelle
- *I'm a Virgo* (2023), series, as Jones
- *Master* (2022), as Sascha
- *F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K* (2022), as Yolanda
- *Clyde's* (2021), as Letitia
- *Silent Partner* (2021), as Kosi Jones
- *Chemical Hearts* (2020), as La
- *Over the Threshold* (2019), as Room Service
- *The Other Two* (2019), series, as VMA Announcer (voice)
- *LUCID* (2018), as Deja
- *Hair Wolf* (2018), as Cami
- *White Face* (2017), as Kara
- *Marvel's The Punisher* (2017), series, as Wendy
- *Cybornetics* (2012), as Lisa
- *Great Performances* (1971), series, as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

## Gallery

- ![Kara Young at the Opening Night of "Proof" on Broadway - April 16, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-c1defde7233f.jpg) Kara Young at the Opening Night of "Proof" on Broadway - April 16, 2026 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kara Young at the Off-Broadway Opening Night of "The Whoopi Monologues" - July 13, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-c89a01eca1bf.jpg) Kara Young at the Off-Broadway Opening Night of "The Whoopi Monologues" - July 13, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano4.jpg/1280px-KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kara Young at the Opening Night of "Proof" on Broadway - April 16, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-d8a8a9e8766f.jpg) Kara Young at the Opening Night of "Proof" on Broadway - April 16, 2026 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano2.jpg/1280px-KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kara Young at the Off-Broadway Opening Night of "The Whoopi Monologues" - July 13, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-1c984faf822f.jpg) Kara Young at the Off-Broadway Opening Night of "The Whoopi Monologues" - July 13, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano5.jpg/1280px-KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano5.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kara Young](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-d26df9de3a24.jpg) Kara Young — Image via TMDB
- ![Kara Young](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-fc5698b2ec7a.jpg) Kara Young — Image via TMDB
- ![Kara Young at the Off-Broadway Opening Night of "The Whoopi Monologues" - July 13, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-4a6db21cdabe.jpg) Kara Young at the Off-Broadway Opening Night of "The Whoopi Monologues" - July 13, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano6.jpg/1280px-KaraYoung-byPhilipRomano6.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kara Young](https://film.one/media/person/96298/gallery-2b1064f2b1f7.jpg) Kara Young — The Tony Awards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Kara_Young_2025_Tony_Awards.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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