Kim Wayans
Acting
Born 1961-10-16
New York City, New York, USA
33 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
29 credits
Criminal Minds
Scary Movie
Hawaii Five-0
New Girl
A Different World
The Wayans Bros.
In Living Color
The Soul Man
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Dream On
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
In the House
Marlon
Poppa's House
Dance Flick
Reckless
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Eddie Murphy Raw
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Juwanna Mann
Ray Meets Helen
Pariah
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street
Hollywood Shuffle
Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
Floundering
Talking About Sex
Other credits
3 credits
Directing
2 credits
Writing
2 credits
Producing
1 credit
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