LC control no. | no 90025096 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Wayans, Keenen Ivory |
Located | United States |
Birth date | 1958-06-08 |
Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Acting Motion pictures--Production and direction Television--Production and direction Motion picture authorship Television authorship Comedy Stand-up comedy |
Affiliation | Tuskegee University National Broadcasting Company |
Profession or occupation | Actors Motion picture producers and directors Television producers and directors Screenwriters Television writers Comedians |
Found in | Hollywood shuffle [VR] c1987: credits (Keenen Ivory Wayans) The Wayans brothers, 2004: CIP galley (Keenen Ivory Wayans; b. June 8, 1958) African American National Biography, accessed April 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wayans, Keenen Ivory; actor, television producer/director, screenwriter, comedian; born 08 June 1958 in New York, United States; studied at Tuskegee University; appeared in For Love and Honor on NBC (1983-1984); wrote, directed, and starred in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988); made his television breakthrough In Living Colors on FOX, an Emmy Award-winning comedy show, for which he served as the creator, executive producer, writer, and a cast member (1990-1994); directed Scary Movie (2000) and Scary Movie 2 (2001); directed Little Man (2006) which won BET Comedy Awards for directing and writing) |
Associated language | eng |