Portrait of Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Acting

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.

Born: June 8, 1958

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

2020
2017
2012
2009
Dance Flick

as Mr. Stache

2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Det. Jim Campbell in The Glimmer Man (archive footage)

2001
My Wife and Kids

as Ken Kyle

2000
Scary Movie

as Slave

1997
Most Wanted

as Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn

1996
The Glimmer Man

as Jim Campbell

1990
In Living Color

as Self - Various Characters

1988
1987
A Different World

as Professor Lawrence

1987
1983
Star 80

as Comic

1983
For Love and Honor

as Pvt. Duke Johnson

1982
Cheers

as Customer #1

1977
CHiPs

as Roberts