Lena Waithe

Known for ActingBorn 1984-05-17 (age 42)Chicago, Illinois, USA

Lena Waithe (/weɪθ/; born May 17, 1984) is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (2019–20) and Twenties (2020–21). She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim (2019) and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them (2021–present). Waithe gained recognition for her role in the Netflix comedy-drama series Master of None (2015–2021) and became the first African-American woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the show's "Thanksgiving" episode, which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother. She has also appeared in Steven Spielberg's 2018 adventure film Ready Player One and the HBO series Westworld. In 2023, she was nominated for Best Play at the 76th Tony Awards, her production work on the sketch-comedy play Ain't No Mo'. Waithe was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was included on Fast Company's Queer 50 list in 2021 and 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lena Waithe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Tender Thoughts

The 25th Filial Exemplar

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Hollywood Black

Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings

100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu

Only the Moon Stands Still

Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020

Sarajin

This Is Us

Mating Season

Grey's Anatomy

Meal Ticket

Play Hard

Bones

My Nights Glow Yellow

Shoebox

The Grammys

Westworld

The Chi

Boomerang

Onward

The One and Only Dick Gregory

Them

Big Mouth

Ready Player One

RuPaul's Drag Race

Master of None

The Comeback

Queen & Slim

Amend: The Fight for America

Last Days of the Lab

Sorry Grandpa Hsiao

Beast

Soñadora

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Kokomo City

Chang Can Dunk

The Forty-Year-Old Version

A Thousand and One

Being Mary Tyler Moore

Transparent

Step Sisters

The Oscars

Visible: Out on Television

The Daily Show

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner