Keenen Ivory Wayans
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1958-06-08 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Keenen Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans
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 host...
Acting
2000
as Slave
1983
as Comic
1994
as Shame
1987
as Donald
1996
as Det. Jim Campbell
1997
as Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn
1988
as Jack Spade
2012
as Self
2004
as Det. Jim Campbell in The Glimmer Man (archive footage)
2012
as Self
2017
as Self
2008
as Self
1983
as Pvt. Duke Johnson
2009
as Mr. Stache
2020
as Self
1982
as Tattoo Calhoune
Production
2000
as Director
2000
as Producer
2001
as Director
2009
as Writer
2006
as Director
2004
as Director
2004
as Producer
2004
as Screenplay
1994
as Writer
1994
as Director
1997
as Writer
2004
as Story
1991
as Writer
1988
as Director
1987
as Producer
1987
as Writer
2006
as Creator
2006
as Creator
2006
as Writer
2006
as Producer
2006
as Screenplay
2009
as Producer
1987
1987
as Co-Writer
1990
as Writer
1988
as Writer
1997
as Executive Producer
2026
as Writer
2026
as Producer
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as Director
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