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Kenan Thompson (/ˈkiːnən/; born May 10, 1978)[1] is an American actor and comedian. He has been a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history.[2] He was also the first regular cast member born after the show's premiere in 1975. He starred on the NBC sitcom Kenan (2021–2022).

Kenan Thompson
Thompson in 2019
Born	(1978-05-10) May 10, 1978 (age 44) Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Actor comedian
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Christina Evangeline ​ ​ (m. 2011; sep. 2021)​
Children	2
Website	www.kenanthompson.net

Thompson began his acting career in the early 1990s, and was an original cast member of Nickelodeon's sketch comedy series All That, where he often collaborated with co-star Kel Mitchell. In 1996, they began starring in their own sitcom Kenan & Kel (1996–2000). Thompson also had roles in The Mighty Ducks franchise, Good Burger, and as the title character in the 2004 film Fat Albert.

He has been nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on SNL, winning once.[3] He is ranked at No. 88 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars.

Early life

Thompson was born on May 10, 1978 in Columbus, Ohio.[4] His parents are Fletcher and Elizabeth Ann Thompson. He has two siblings: an older brother and a younger sister. His family moved to Atlanta, Georgia when he was 9 months old.[4] Thompson's mother enrolled him in acting classes at age five. His first role as Toto in a church production of The Wiz had no lines.[2] He continued acting throughout his youth, appearing in school plays such as The Gingerbread Duck.[5] He auditioned for a theater company, The Youth Ensemble of Atlanta (YEA).[6] As a child he was a fan of The Price Is Right which he referred to as "my first love" and "very joyful viewing", which had an effect on his future acting style.[7]

Career

Early career

One of Thompson's earliest roles was as an entertainment reporter for CNN's "Real News for Kids".[8] He went on to star in the original run of All That for its first five seasons, with such characters as Principal Pimpell, Miss Piddlin, Pierre Escargot, and Superdude. He starred as Kenan Rockmore on Nickelodeon's Kenan & Kel from 1996 to 2000, mostly while still working on All That.[8] While attending Tri-Cities High School, a Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School in East Point, Georgia, he began filming his first movie, D2: The Mighty Ducks.

Later career

Thompson has starred in several films including Good Burger, based on the All That sketch of the same title, and Fat Albert, in which he played the title character. He has also had supporting roles in the movies Heavyweights, D2: The Mighty Ducks, D3: The Mighty Ducks, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, My Boss's Daughter, and Snakes on a Plane.

In 2009, Thompson was a regular voice actor in the Fox cartoon series Sit Down, Shut Up, portraying Sue Sezno who, as evidenced by her last name, always says no.[9] The series premiered on April 19, 2009,[9] but was canceled after only four episodes due to low ratings and less than favorable reviews. Thompson provided the voice for the LeBron James puppet in Nike's MVP "Most Valuable Puppets" commercials, which were produced to be shown throughout the 2009 NBA Playoffs. Thompson also guest starred on the USA Network series Psych in the fourth season episode "High Top Fade Out". He played Gus's estranged college singing buddy. In 2011, he returned to Nickelodeon, as he guest starred in "iParty with Victorious", a crossover episode of sitcoms iCarly and Victorious.

Thompson appeared as a host of sorts of TeenNick's retro programming block, The '90s Are All That, appearing in many of the block's early bumpers and hyping material. He would return to the block, eventually called NickRewind but at the time called The Splat, for All That's 22nd anniversary, with segments filmed at the 2015 New York Comic-Con.[10]

In 2015, movie ticketing website Fandango announced that Thompson would play their brand character, Miles Mouvay. Thompson would play Mouvay in 18 videos, eight 30-second commercials, and a few comedic skits.[11]

On September 23, 2015, Thompson appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon alongside former All That co-star Kel Mitchell in which they reprised their popular Good Burger roles as "Ed" and "Lester Oakes, Construction Worker". They later competed against one another in an episode of the revived Nickelodeon game show Double Dare that aired in November 2018.[12]

In 2019, Thompson served as a judge for NBC's comedy competition series Bring the Funny.[13] He also became an executive producer with Mitchell for Nickelodeon's All That revival, premiering in June.[14] In May 2019, NBC announced they had picked up Thompson's single-camera comedy The Kenan Show to series. The series, retitled Kenan, premiered in 2021 on NBC, featuring Thompson as a newly-widowed father determined to be a "super dad".[15] He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series after its first season. In May 2022, the series was canceled after its second season.[16]

In 2020, he became the spokesman for Universal Parks & Resorts’ "Let Yourself Woah" campaign,[17] and was set to host the 2020 White House Correspondents' Dinner before it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18]

2021 would also see Thompson be named host of that year's Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards[19] and People's Choice Awards.[20] He also hosted The Jonas Brothers Family Roast on Netflix.[21]

In December 2021, Thompson co-founded the production company and talent incubator Artists for Artists (AFA). Their first announced project, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth Part 2 is in collaboration with Mike Tyson and wife Lakiha "Kiki" Spicer and a sequel to the boxer's 2013 HBO special. In March 2022, AFA fully funded the launch of Twenty Two Entertainment, led by actors Michael Rainey Jr. and Gianni Paolo, best known from the Starz series Power Book II: Ghost.[22][23]

He appears in the third episode of the revival of The Kids in the Hall as Ron, a Friend of the Kids in the Hall[24] and hosted the NHL Awards in June 2022.[25]

He hosted the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 12, 2022.[26]

Saturday Night Live

Thompson returned to sketch comedy when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2003, becoming the show's first cast member born after its 1975 premiere.[27] According to Thompson he had previously sent an audition tape to SNL multiple times with them claiming he looked too young, with him noting "it was a couple years’ worth of that".[7] A fan of the show before joining, Thompson noted that he feared that being on the show was a "disservice" to it stating "It was weird for me for a long time".[7] Thompson was a featured player until 2005 (spanning the 29th and 30th seasons) and was promoted to repertory player at the beginning of season 31 (the 2005–2006 season).

In 2013, he refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.[28][29]

Thompson has been a cast member on SNL for 20 seasons,[30] breaking the record for the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history previously held by Darrell Hammond, who was on the show for 14 years. Thompson became the most senior cast member in the second half of the 2013–14 season, following the departure of Seth Meyers. He is also the longest-serving African-American cast member, surpassing Tim Meadows, who stayed on the show for ten seasons.[31] Thompson also holds the record for most celebrity impressions performed on the show, performing 139, beating Hammond's previous record of 107.[32] Although early on he planned to stay on the show until something else came along, by 2019 he noted that SNL was his "forever plan".[33][34]

Thompson has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys for his work on SNL, winning once. He has thrice been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, in 2018, 2020 and 2021. For co-writing the song "Last Christmas", in 2017 he was nominated for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, an award he then won in 2018 for the lyrics to "Come Back Barack" (along with Chris Redd and Will Stephen).[35]

In 2014, SNL head writer Brian H. Tucker noted that simply putting "KENAN REACTS" would get a script more laughs, further elaborating, "Put him in your sketch somewhere, anywhere, and your sketch will get better. Because Kenan knows how to take ordinary lines and make them funny, and take funny lines and make them special."[36] Similarly, Lorne Michaels in a 2019 article would refer to Thompson as "the person I most rely on in the cast".[34] Vulture referred to him as the "heir apparent" to Phil Hartman, both being "the glue" of their respective casts.[37]

Thompson's celebrity impressions on SNL include Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, Charles Barkley, David Ortiz, OJ Simpson, and Steve Harvey on the recurring Family Feud sketch.[38]

He has performed in over 1,500 sketches, hitting the mark during the March 5, 2022 episode hosted by Oscar Isaac.[39]

In commemoration of his 20th anniversary on the show, Thompson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 11, 2022. It was placed next to Lorne Michaels' star.[40]

Recurring characters

• Darnell Hayes, the host of Black Jeopardy![38]
• Diondre Cole, the host of What Up with That? (What's Up with That? in some episodes), who is repeatedly distracted by the show's theme song
• Reese De'What, the host of Cinema Classics
• Willie, Michael Che's overly optimistic neighbour
• Jean K. Jean, a French comedian
• Lorenzo McIntosh, a prisoner in the Scared Straight sketches
• Steve Kane, the gym teacher in the Daniel Frye sketches
• Tre, a character in the Californians sketches
• Virginiaca Hastings, an argumentative shopper
• Elliot Pants, Host of What's Wrong with This Picture?

Personal life

Thompson married model Christina Evangeline[41] on November 11, 2011.[42] Together, they have two daughters, born in June 2014,[43][44] and August 2018.[45]

On April 7, 2022, it was announced that the two had been separated for over a year, but are co-parenting their daughters.[46] On June 15, 2022, it was announced that Thompson was officially filing for divorce.[47]

Filmography

Kenan Thompson film work

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	D2: The Mighty Ducks	Russ Tyler
1995	Heavyweights	Roy Murphy
1996	D3: The Mighty Ducks	Russ Tyler
1997	Good Burger	Dexter Reed
2000	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Lewis
2002	Big Fat Liar	Party Guest
	The Master of Disguise	Guy on Computer
2003	Love Don't Cost a Thing	Walter Colley
	My Boss's Daughter	Hans
2004	Barbershop 2: Back in Business	Kenard
	Fat Albert	Fat Albert
2006	Snakes on a Plane	Troy
2008	Space Chimps	Ringmaster	Voice
	Wieners	Wyatt
2009	Stan Helsing	Teddy
2011	The Smurfs	Greedy Smurf	Voice
2012	The Magic of Belle Isle	Henry
2013	The Smurfs 2	Greedy Smurf	Voice
2014	They Came Together	Teddy
	The Opposite Sex	Mitch
2016	Rock Dog	Riff	Voice
	Brother Nature	Miesha
2017	Going in Style	Keith
2018	The Grinch	Bricklebaum	Voice
2019	Wonder Park	Gus	Voice
	Playmobil: The Movie	Bloodbones	Voice
	Dads	Himself	Documentary
2020	Trolls World Tour	Tiny Diamond	Voice
	Hubie Halloween	Officer Blake
2021	Clifford the Big Red Dog	Clifford's veterinarian
	Home Sweet Home Alone	Gavin Washington
2022	Bros	James Baldwin

Kenan Thompson television work

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994–99, 2002, 2005, 2019–20	All That	Various roles	Main role (Seasons 1-5); guest role (Season 7); guest role (Season 10); executive producer (Season 11)
1996–98	The Steve Harvey Show	Junior	4 episodes
1996–2000	Kenan & Kel	Kenan Rockmore	Main role
1997	Sister, Sister	Trevor	Episode: "Inherit the Twin"
1998	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Kenan Rockmore	Episode: "Sabrina's Choice"
1999	The Amanda Show	Himself	Episode: "Episode 1"
	Cousin Skeeter	Kenan Rockmore	Episodes: "Hoo, I'm Wild Wild West" (Parts 1 & 2)
2000	The Parkers	Damon	Episode: "Trading Places"
2001	Felicity	DeForrest Ingram	4 episodes
2002	Off Centre	MC French	2 episodes
2003	Clifford the Big Red Dog	Hamburger	Voice; Episode: "Food for Thought/Friends Forever"
2003–present	Saturday Night Live	Himself/Various roles	Repertory player (Season 31-present)
2005, 2018	Wild 'n Out	Himself	2 episodes
2005	Rugrats	Mirror	Voice; Episode: "Tales from the Crib: Snow White"
2007	Crank Yankers	Mark Thomas	Episode: "4.1"
2008	The Mighty B!	Rocky Rhodes	Voice; 5 episodes
2009	Psych	Joon	Episode: "High Top Fade-Out"
	Sit Down, Shut Up	Sue Sezno	Voice: 13 episodes
2011	iCarly	Himself	Episode: "iParty with Victorious"
	The '90s Are All That	Host
2013	Martha Speaks	Stanley	Voice; Episode: "Stanley Saves The Day/Milo Goes For Gold"[48]
2013–15	The Awesomes	Austin "Impresario" Sullivan	Voice
2015	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja	Socko	Voice; Episode: "Rorg: A Hero of a Past"
	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Lester Oakes	Episode: "James Spader/Andrew Rannells/Brian Regan"
2015–20	Nature Cat	Ronald	Voice, Season 1 only
2016	Maya & Marty	Various roles	Main role
2016, 2019	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Roland	2 episodes
2017–19	Match Game	Himself/Panelist	4 episodes[49]
2018	Double Dare	Himself	Contestant; episode: "Team Kel vs. Team Kenan"
	Studio C	Himself, various roles	[50][51]
2019	The Masked Singer	Himself	Guest judge; episodes 8, 9[52]
	Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?		Voice; Episode: "Quit Clowning!"[53]
	Bring the Funny		Judge[54]
2020	America's Got Talent	Guest judge	Season 15, two episodes 1
2020–2022	Trolls: TrollsTopia	Tiny Diamond	Voice
2021–2022	Kenan	Kenan Williams	Main role and executive producer
2021	2021 Kids' Choice Awards	Himself	Host
	Trolls: Holiday in Harmony	Tiny Diamond	Voice [55]
	47th People's Choice Awards	Himself	Host
	Jonas Brothers Family Roast	Himself	Host
2022	Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock	Jack Hammer Doozer	Voice; Episode: "Wembley the Spokesfraggle" [56]
	The Boys Presents: Diabolical	Mo-Slo’s Dad	Voice; Episode: "An Animated Short Where Pissed-Off Supes Kill Their Parents"
	The Kids in the Hall	Ron	Episode 3
	That Damn Michael Che	Himself	Episode: "Join the Club"
	74th Primetime Emmy Awards	Himself	Host[26]

^1 Thompson stood in for Cowell, who was still recovering from a back injury the previous week that required him to rest under medical observation.

Kenan Thompson albums

Year	Title	Notes
2004	Good Times	Comedy album

References

External links

• Official website
• Kenan Thompson at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson (* 10. Mai 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Comedian.

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[es] Kenan Thompson

Kenan Thompson (Atlanta, Georgia, Estados Unidos; 10 de mayo de 1978),[1]es un actor y cómico estadounidense. Nació artísticamente en la película Vuelven los mejores (D2: The Mighty Ducks), luego hizo Pesos pesados y pasó al canal infantil Nickelodeon con el programa Todo eso y más (All That).

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[ru] Томпсон, Кинан

Кинан Томпсон (англ. Kenan Thompson; род. 10 мая 1978) — американский актёр и комик, наиболее известный как актёр юмористической передачи «Субботним вечером в прямом эфире». Также известен по фильму «Змеиный полёт», ситкому «Кинан и Кел» и скетч-шоу «Всякая всячина».

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