Keenan Ivory Wayans es un actor, director, guionista y productor neoyorquino, hermano de los intérpretes Damon, Marlon, Kim y Shawn, e hijo de Elvira, trabajadora social, y Howell Wayans, responsable de un supermercado.

Comedia (en especial las parodias con contenido sexual) y acción dentro de intrigas de tipo criminal son los principales géneros abordados por Wayans, quien se dedicó al mundo del humor tras pasar durante unos años por la Tuskegee University.

Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans first came to prominence as the host and the creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed and/or written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote, in 1987.

A majority of his films have included him and one or more of his brothers and sisters in the cast.

One of these films, Scary Movie (2000), which Wayans directed, was the highest-grossing movie directed by an African American until it was surpassed by Tim Story's Fantastic Four in 2005. From 1997 to 1998, he hosted the talk show The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. Most recently, he was a judge for the eighth season of Last Comic Standing.

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