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Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (born June 8, 1958)[1] 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 the creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed and/or written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote, in 1987.

Keenen Ivory Wayans
Wayans in 2019
Born	Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (1958-06-08) June 8, 1958 (age 64) New York City, U.S.
Education	Tuskegee University
Occupation	Actor comedian filmmaker
Years active	1979–present
Partner	Brittany Daniel (2007–2014)
Children	5
Family	Wayans family
Awards	1990-Emmy Award Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series In Living Color (as executive producer)

A majority of his films have included him and one or more of his brothers and sisters 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.[2] Most recently, he was a judge for the eighth season of Last Comic Standing.

Life and career

Wayans was born in Harlem, New York City, son of Howell Stouten Wayans, a supermarket manager, and his wife Elvira Alethia (Green), a homemaker and social worker.[3] Genealogical TV show Finding Your Roots revealed that his paternal line traced back to Madagascar.[4] His father was a devout Jehovah's Witness.[5][6][7] The family later moved to Manhattan's Fulton housing projects,[8] where he primarily grew up. He attended Seward Park High School during his teenage years, and attended Tuskegee University on an engineering scholarship.[8] He entertained his friends at college with made-up stories about life in New York.[9] One semester before graduation, he dropped out of school to focus on comedy.[10]

During his first set performing at The Improv in New York, Wayans met Robert Townsend, who helped him learn about the comedy business.[9] Townsend and Wayans drove cross country to Los Angeles together when Wayans moved to Los Angeles in 1980.[9] Wayans worked there as an actor. He had a regular role as a soldier on a television series titled For Love and Honor.[9] He also appeared on Hill Street Blues as a famous NFL linebacker.

Townsend wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Hollywood Shuffle; Wayans was costar and cowriter.[9] The movie's success allowed him to raise the money to make I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.[9] Fox Broadcasting Company approached Wayans to offer him his own show.[11] Wayans wanted to produce a variety show similar to Saturday Night Live, with a cast of people of color that took chances with its content.[8]

Fox gave Wayans a lot of freedom with the show, although Fox executives were a bit concerned about the show's content before its television debut.[11] Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the show, titled In Living Color, a sketch comedy television series that originally ran on the Fox Network from 1990 to 1994.

Wayans is a vegetarian, and has promoted the diet in a public service announcement of 2006 for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.[12][13]

In Living Color

Characters

• Death Row Comic (Prison Cable Access)
• Frenchie
• Ice Man (Homeboy Shopping Network)
• Tom Brothers (The Brothers Brothers)
• Wes (Wes & Les)

Impressions

• Arsenio Hall
• Billy Dee Williams
• Don Cornelius
• Jesse Jackson
• Little Richard
• Mike Tyson
• Marsha Warfield
• Milli (Rob Pilatus) of Milli Vanilli
• Morgan Freeman (Damon Wayans was Hoke Coburn from Driving Miss Daisy/Riding Miss Daisy, Principal Joe Clark from Lean on Me)
• Rick James
• Steve Harvey
• Carl Weathers (as Apollo Creed)

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1983	Star 80	Comic
1983	For Love and Honor	Duke
1986	Benson	Clete Hawkins
1987	A Different World	Professor Lawrence
1987	Hollywood Shuffle	Donald / Jheri Curl
1988	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	Jack Spade
1994	A Low Down Dirty Shame	Shame
1996	Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood	Mailman
1996	The Glimmer Man	Lieutenant Jim Campbell
1997	Most Wanted	Gunnery Sergeant James Anthony Dunn
2000	Scary Movie	Slave (Amistad II)
2001	My Wife and Kids	Ken
2009	Dance Flick	Mr. Stache
2009	Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy	Himself
2013	Happily Divorced	Tony
2014	Last Comic Standing	Judge

Writing/producing/directing credits

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Note
1987	Hollywood Shuffle	No	Yes	No
1987	Eddie Murphy Raw	No	Yes	Yes
1988	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	Yes	Yes	No
1990-1992	In Living Color	Yes	Yes	executive	creator
1991	The Five Heartbeats	No	Yes	No
1994	A Low Down Dirty Shame	Yes	Yes	No
1996	Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood	No	No	Yes
1997	The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show	No	No	executive
1997	Most Wanted	No	Yes	executive
2000	Scary Movie	Yes	No	No
2001	Scary Movie 2	Yes	No	No
2004	White Chicks	Yes	No	Yes
2006	Little Man	Yes	Yes	Yes
2009	Dance Flick	No	Yes	Yes
2017	The Boo Crew	No	Yes	Yes	creator
2020	The Last O.G.	No	Yes	No	episode: "Lookin' at The Front Door"

References

External links

• Keenen Ivory Wayans at IMDb
• Keenen Ivory Wayans at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

На других языках

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[de] Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans (* 8. Juni 1958, New York City, USA) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Produzent. Er ist der Bruder von Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Damon Wayans und Kim Wayans.

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- [en] Keenen Ivory Wayans

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[es] Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans (Nueva York; 8 de junio de 1958) es un actor, comediante y director estadounidense. Es conocido por su colaboración en las películas Scary Movie y Scary Movie 2. Pertenece a la Familia Wayans y es hermano de Shawn Wayans, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans y Kim Wayans.

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[ru] Уэйанс, Кинен Айвори

Кинен Айвори Уэйанс (англ. Keenen Ivory Wayans; род. 8 июня 1958[1], Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк) — американский режиссёр и актёр.

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