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Shawn Wayans

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Shawn Wayans

Born Jan 19, 1971 · 55 years38 titles 20 movies · 18 TV
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Biography

Shawn Mathis Wayans (born January 19, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He debuted on the comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1993). He went on to work with his brother Marlon Wayans on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–1999) and the comedy films Don't Be a Menace (1996), Scary Movie (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), White Chicks (2004), Little Man (2006), and Dance Flick (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Wayans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Shawn Mathis Wayans

Born

Jan 19, 1971

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).

34

Acting credits

2

Directing

14

Writing

9

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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1984 1 title(s)

1985 1 title(s)

1988 2 title(s)

1989 1 title(s)

1990 1 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1995 4 title(s)

1996 3 title(s)

1997 1 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

1999 2 title(s)

2000 1 title(s)

2001 1 title(s)

2003 3 title(s)

2004 1 title(s)

2006 5 title(s)

2009 2 title(s)

2012 2 title(s)

2013 1 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)

Undated 2 title(s)