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Shawn Wayans
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Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Co-Executive Producer
Born:
January 19, 1971 in New York, NY
Biography:As a key member of what many comedy lovers consider to be one of the funniest families on Hollywood, producer/writer/actor Shawn Wayans has been instrumental in bringing such hit parodies as Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Scary Movie, and its sequel Scary Movie 2 to the big screen. Though Wayans has occasionally branched out to appear in such non-Wayans productions as the 1999 action thriller New Blood, it's mainly family that serves as this funnyman's bread and butter, with a lead role in the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. leading to increasingly prominent roles in such family productions as White Chicks and Little Man. Raised in the Chelsea area of Manhattan with his nine siblings, Wayans credits his family's boundless sense of humor in helping him to get by when money was tight and the future looked grim. Supporting roles in such early efforts as elder brother... Full Biography
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Center, from left: Essence Atkins and Shawn Wayans in "Dance Flick" (Paramount Studios)
Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans in "Little Man"
Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans in "Little Man"
Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans in "Little Man"
Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans in "Little Man"
Carmen Electra, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans
Carmen Electra, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans
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