14 Facts About Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans was born on June 8,1958 and is an American actor, comedian, director and filmmaker.

Keenen Ivory Wayans is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers.

Keenen Ivory Wayans has produced, directed or written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote, in 1987.

One of these films, Scary Movie, which Keenen Ivory Wayans directed, was the highest-grossing movie directed by an African American until it was surpassed by Tim Story's Fantastic Four in 2005.

Keenen Ivory Wayans was born in Harlem, New York City, son of Howell Stouten Keenen Ivory Wayans, a supermarket manager, and his wife Elvira Alethia, a homemaker and social worker.

Keenen Ivory Wayans attended Seward Park High School during his teenage years, and attended Tuskegee University on an engineering scholarship where he was initiated as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity's Gamma Phi chapter.

Keenen Ivory Wayans entertained his friends at college with made-up stories about life in New York.

Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans drove to Los Angeles together when Keenen Ivory Wayans moved to Los Angeles in 1980.

Keenen Ivory Wayans had a regular role as a soldier on the television series For Love and Honor and appeared on Hill Street Blues as an NFL wide receiver.

Townsend wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Hollywood Shuffle; Keenen Ivory Wayans was costar and cowriter.

Fox Broadcasting Company approached Keenen Ivory Wayans to offer him his own show.

Keenen Ivory 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.

Keenen Ivory Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the show, In Living Color, a sketch comedy television series that originally ran on Fox from 1990 to 1994.

Keenen Ivory Wayans married Daphne Polk in 2001, but the couple filed for divorce in 2004, and their divorce was finalized in December 2006.