Actor info
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Name :
Keenen Ivory Wayans
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Born :
June 8, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA (68 years old)
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
21 films (1982–2020)
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Also known as :
Keenen Wayans, Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keenen Ivory Wayans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
- Dance Flick (2009) as Mr. Stache
- Scary Movie (2000) as Slave
- Most Wanted (1997) as Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) as Mailman
- The Glimmer Man (1996) as Jim Campbell
