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Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Birthday: 1958-06-08 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2012
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only

as    Himself

1997
Most Wanted

as    Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn

1996
The Glimmer Man

as    Jim Campbell

1994
A Low Down Dirty Shame

as    Shame

1988
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

as    Jack Spade

1987
Hollywood Shuffle

as    Donald

1987
The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party

as    Ray the Boxer

1983
For Love and Honor

as    Pvt. Duke Johnson