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Kim Wayans
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…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Scary Movie
Movie Nurse Ratchett
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2025
Me (and You)
Movie
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2024
Poppa's House
TV show Caller #2 (voice)
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2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
TV show Aunt Bev
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2018
Ray Meets Helen
Movie Faye
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2017
Marlon
TV show Miss Shabazz
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2014
Reckless
TV show Vi Briggs
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2013
Why We Laugh: Funny Women
Movie Self
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2012
The Soul Man
TV show Dr. Owens
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2011
Pariah
Movie Audrey
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2011
New Girl
TV show Susan
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2010
Hawaii Five-0
TV show Diane
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2009
Dance Flick
Movie Ms. Dontwannabebothered
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2006
Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street
Movie Momma (voice)
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2006
Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
Movie Momma (voice)
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2005
Criminal Minds
TV show Darlene Beckett
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2002
Juwanna Mann
Movie Latisha Jansen
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2001
My Wife and Kids
TV show Writer
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1996
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Movie Mrs. Johnson
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1995
In the House
TV show
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1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV show Jackie-in-the-Box / Lulu (voice)
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1995
The Wayans Bros.
TV show Sheila
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1994
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Movie Diane
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1994
Floundering
Movie Unemployment
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1994
Talking About Sex
Movie Andie Norman
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1990
Dream On
TV show Nicki
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1990
In Living Color
TV show Self - Various Characters
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1988
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Movie Nightclub Singer
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1988
China Beach
TV show
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1987
Eddie Murphy Raw
Movie Interviewed Fan (uncredited)
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1987
A Different World
TV show Allison
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1987
Hollywood Shuffle
Movie Customer in Chair
