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Kim N. Wayans is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, and director. Wayans is the sister of Keenen Ivory, Damon Sr., Marlon, Shawn, and Nadia Wayans. She is best known for her numerous roles on the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color, and Tonia Harris on In the House.
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Kim N. Wayans is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, and director. Wayans is the sister of Keenen Ivory, Damon Sr., Marlon, Shawn, and Nadia Wayans. She is best known for her numerous roles on the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color, and Tonia Harris on In the House.
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Kim N. Wayans is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, and director. Wayans is the sister of Keenen Ivory, Damon Sr., Marlon, Shawn, and Nadia Wayans. She is best known for her numerous roles on the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color, and Tonia Harris on In the House.
In film she appeared in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (both directed by her brother Keenen) and had a starring role in the art film Talking About Sex and later co-starred in Juwanna Mann as Latisha Jansen. She starred with her siblings on the Fox variety show In Living Color and A Low Down Dirty Shame.
Her other television work includes regular appearances on the sitcom In the House with LL Cool J and a recurring role on A Different World. Recently, she has worked as a story editor on her brother Damon's sitcom My Wife and Kids. In 2008, she co wrote a series of children's books with her husband Kevin Knotts, entitled Amy Hodgepodge, about a multiracial girl adjusting to life in public school after years of homeschooling.
In December 2011, she got a chance to showcase her dramatic chops with a supporting role as a mother who struggles to understand her seventeen-year-old daughter in Pariah. She was nominated (alongside co star Pernell Walker) for Best Supporting Actress at the 2012 Black Reel Awards but lost to Octavia Spencer for The Help.
Gender
Female
Birthday
October 16, 1961
Birthplace
New York, New York, United States
Also Known As
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
1996
Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
2006
Juwanna Mann
2002
Floundering
1994
Scary Movie
2026
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
2013
Dance Flick
2009
Pariah
2011
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988
Martin: The Reunion
2022
Eddie Murphy Raw
1987
A Low Down Dirty Shame
1994
Hollywood Shuffle
1987
Ray Meets Helen
2018
Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street
2006
Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1
1987
Talking About Sex
1994
Me (and You)
2025
Criminal Minds
2005
Hawaii Five-0
2010
New Girl
2011
A Different World
1987
China Beach
1988
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
In Living Color
1990
The Wayans Bros.
1995
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
Dream On
1990
In the House
1995
In the House
1995
The Soul Man
2012
Marlon
2017
Poppa's House
2024
Reckless
2014