Kim Wayans

Known for ActingBorn 1961-10-16 (age 64)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Criminal Minds

Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street

Hawaii Five-0

In the House

In Living Color

New Girl

My Wife and Kids

China Beach

Why We Laugh: Funny Women

The Wayans Bros.

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Eddie Murphy Raw

Reckless

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Pariah

A Different World

Marlon

Dream On

Hollywood Shuffle

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Soul Man

Scary Movie

Poppa's House

A Low Down Dirty Shame

Juwanna Mann

Dance Flick

Floundering

Ray Meets Helen

Talking About Sex

Me (and You)

Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1