Name
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1958-06-08 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (/ˈweɪ.ənz/ WAY-ənz; born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans first came to prominence as the host and creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed or written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote, in 1987. Most of his films have included him and one or more of his siblings in the cast.
One of these films, Scary Movie (2000), which Wayans directed, was the highest-grossing movie directed by an African American until it was surpassed by Tim Story's Fantastic Four in 2005. From 1997 to 1998, he hosted the talk show The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. In 2014, he was a judge for the eighth season of Last Comic Standing.
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- 2000 Scary Movie as Slave
- 1983 Star 80 as Comic
- 1994 A Low Down Dirty Shame as Shame
- 1987 Hollywood Shuffle as Donald
- 1996 The Glimmer Man as Jim Campbell
- 1997 Most Wanted as Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn
- 2009 Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy as Self
- 1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka as Jack Spade
- 2012 FOX 25th Anniversary Special as Self
- 2012 Eddie Murphy: One Night Only as Self
- 1987 The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party as Ray the Boxer
- 1996 Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood as Mailman
- 1987 Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1
- 2017 Dying Laughing as Self
- 2008 The Black List: Volume One as Self
- 1983 For Love and Honor as Pvt. Duke Johnson
- 2009 Dance Flick as Mr. Stache
- 2020 This Is Stand-Up as Self
- 2019 Before They Were Kings: Vol. 2
- 1982 Highway Honeys as Tattoo Calhoune
- 1992 The Real Malcolm X
- 1991 A Party For Richard Pryor as Self
- 1982 Cheers ( 1 episode ) as Customer #1
- 1977 CHiPs ( 1 episode ) as Roberts
- 2001 My Wife and Kids ( 1 episode ) as Ken Kyle
- 1981 Hill Street Blues ( 1 episode )
- 2012 Inside Comedy ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 Finding Your Roots ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 In Living Color ( 102 episodes ) as Self - Various Characters
- 1997 The Chris Rock Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1983 For Love and Honor ( 13 episodes ) as Pvt. Duke Johnson
- 1987 A Different World ( 1 episode ) as Professor Lawrence
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
