Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans (66)

1958-06-08 | 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.

On Movies

  • Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
  • Dance Flick
  • Scary Movie
  • Most Wanted
  • The Glimmer Man
  • Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  • A Low Down Dirty Shame
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
  • The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party
  • Hollywood Shuffle
  • Star 80
  • For Love and Honor

Movies as Director

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