
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Actor
Born: June 8, 1958 (67 years old)
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography (26)
- Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009, ★ 8)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004, ★ 7.6)
- Cheers (1982, ★ 7.5)
- My Wife and Kids (2001, ★ 7.4)
- Hill Street Blues (1981, ★ 7.7)
- In Living Color (1990, ★ 7.6)
- Scary Movie (2000, ★ 6.4)
- Star 80 (1983, ★ 6.4)
- Hollywood Shuffle (1987, ★ 6.5)
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996, ★ 7)
- Dying Laughing (2017, ★ 6.4)
- CHiPs (1977, ★ 6.8)
- A Different World (1987, ★ 7)
- White Chicks (2004, ★ 6.9)
- The Five Heartbeats (1991, ★ 7.3)
- Eddie Murphy Raw (1987, ★ 7.3)
- A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994, ★ 5.6)
- The Glimmer Man (1996, ★ 5.4)
- Most Wanted (1997, ★ 5.4)
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988, ★ 6.3)
- Eddie Murphy: One Night Only (2012, ★ 6)
- Finding Your Roots (2012, ★ 6.2)
- Dance Flick (2009, ★ 5)
- Scary Movie 2 (2001, ★ 5.8)
- Little Man (2006, ★ 5.9)
- The Chris Rock Show (1997, ★ 4.2)