Kim Wayans

Kim Wayans

1961-10-16

Biography

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.

Also appears in

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

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

7.0

Dance Flick

Dance Flick

4.8

Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

7.3

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka

6.4

Hollywood Shuffle

Hollywood Shuffle

6.4

Floundering

Floundering

4.9

A Low Down Dirty Shame

A Low Down Dirty Shame

5.7

Pariah

Pariah

6.8

Juwanna Mann

Juwanna Mann

5.2

Why We Laugh: Funny Women

Why We Laugh: Funny Women

7.2

Ray Meets Helen

Ray Meets Helen

4.2

Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc’s Street

Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc’s Street

8.0

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

7.0

Talking About Sex

Talking About Sex

4.0