Kim Wayans
- Professione
- Recitazione
- Nascita
- 16 ottobre 1961
- Luogo di nascita
- New York City, New York, USA
Biografia
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.
Film con Kim Wayans
- Scary Movie 2026 · ★ 6.3
- Un ragazzo veramente speciale 1996 · ★ 7.0
- Nudo e crudo 1987 · ★ 7.2
- Dance Flick 2009 · ★ 5.0
- Scappa, scappa... poi ti prendo! 1988 · ★ 6.4
- Pariah 2011 · ★ 6.9
- Detective Shame: Indagine ad alto rischio 1994 · ★ 5.7
- Juwanna Mann 2002 · ★ 5.1
- Hollywood Shuffle 1987 · ★ 6.5
- Floundering 1994 · ★ 4.8
- Ray Meets Helen 2018 · ★ 4.3
- Talking About Sex 1994 · ★ 4.2
- Why We Laugh: Funny Women 2013 · ★ 7.2
- Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street 2006 · ★ 8.0
- Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness 2006 · ★ 7.0
- Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1 1987
- Me (and You) 2025