Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans was born on June 8,1958 and is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
15 Facts About Keenen Ivory Wayans
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Keenen Ivory Wayans is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers.
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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.
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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.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans was born the second of ten children.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans attended Seward Park High School during his teenage years, and attended Tuskegee University on an engineering scholarship.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans entertained his friends at college with made-up stories about life in New York.
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Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans drove cross country to Los Angeles together when Keenen Ivory Wayans moved to Los Angeles in 1980.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans had a regular role as a soldier on a television series titled For Love and Honor.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans appeared on Hill Street Blues as a famous NFL linebacker.
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Townsend wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Hollywood Shuffle; Keenen Ivory Wayans was costar and cowriter.
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Fox Broadcasting Company approached Keenen Ivory Wayans to offer him his own show.
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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.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the show, titled In Living Color, a sketch comedy television series that originally ran on the Fox Network from 1990 to 1994.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans is a vegetarian, and has promoted the diet in a public service announcement in 2006 for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.