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Keenen Ivory Wayans

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Keenen Ivory Wayans

Born Jun 8, 1958 · 68 years43 titles 31 movies · 12 TV
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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.

Also known as

Keenen Wayans · Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans

Born

Jun 8, 1958

New York City, New York, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

33

Acting credits

6

Directing

15

Writing

10

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1962 1 title(s)

1977 1 title(s)

1981 1 title(s)

1982 2 title(s)

1983 3 title(s)

1987 5 title(s)

1988 1 title(s)

1990 2 title(s)

1991 1 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1994 1 title(s)

1996 2 title(s)

1997 2 title(s)

2000 1 title(s)

2001 2 title(s)

2004 1 title(s)

2006 2 title(s)

2008 1 title(s)

2009 2 title(s)

2012 4 title(s)

2014 1 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2020 1 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)

Undated 2 title(s)