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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 8, 1958
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Keenen Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans
1.8 Popularity
Biography
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, director and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans first became the host and creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed, and written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote in 1987. His films have included him and one or more 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.
Known For
5.0
Self
This Is Stand-Up
2020
8.0
Before They Were Kings: Vol. 2
2019
6.4
Self
Dying Laughing
2017
5.9
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
6.0
Self
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
2012
7.3
Self
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012
6.6
Self
Finding Your Roots
2012
6.5
Self
Inside Comedy
2012
5.0
Mr. Stache
Dance Flick
2009
8.0
Self
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
Credits
This Is Stand-Up
as Self
2020
5.0
Before They Were Kings: Vol. 2
2019
8.0
Dying Laughing
as Self
2017
6.4
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
as Self
2012
6.0
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
2012
7.3
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
Inside Comedy
as Self
2012
6.5
Dance Flick
as Mr. Stache
2009
5.0
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
as Self
2009
8.0
The Black List: Volume One
as Self
2008
6.5
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Det. Jim Campbell in The Glimmer Man (archive footage)
2004
7.6
My Wife and Kids
as Ken Kyle
2001
7.4
Scary Movie
as Slave
2000
6.4
Most Wanted
as Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn
1997
5.4
The Chris Rock Show
as Self
1997
4.2
The Glimmer Man
as Jim Campbell
1996
5.4
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
as Mailman
1996
7.0
A Low Down Dirty Shame
as Shame
1994
5.6
The Real Malcolm X
1992
0.0
In Living Color
as Self - Various Characters
1990
7.6
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Jack Spade
1988
6.4
Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1
1987
0.0
The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party
as Ray the Boxer
1987
0.0
A Different World
as Professor Lawrence
1987
7.0
Hollywood Shuffle
as Donald
1987
6.5
Star 80
as Comic
1983
6.4
For Love and Honor
as Pvt. Duke Johnson
1983
10.0
🎬
For Love and Honor
as Pvt. Duke Johnson
1983
5.5
Cheers
as Customer #1
1982
7.6
🎬
Highway Honeys
as Tattoo Calhoune
1982
0.0
Hill Street Blues
1981
7.6
CHiPs
as Roberts
1977
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5