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Kenan Thompson
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- When I Was Your Age
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Film & TV
Acting · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He is also known for his roles in the films Good Burger and Fat Albert as well as on Kenan & Kel and All That.
Known for
- Pierre the Pigeon-Hawk — Sniff (voice)2026
- Lorne — Self2026
- The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy — Self2026
- Scary Movie — Jermaine Jackson2026
- The Pete Davidson Show — Self - Guest2026
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self - SNL Cast Member 2003 - Present2025
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self2025
- Downey Wrote That — Self2025
- Being Eddie — Self2025
- Good Sports with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson — Self2025
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1978
Member of
- Saturday Night Livesince 2003
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,089
- Total plays
- 7,284
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Kenan Thompson (born on May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actor and comedian who is currently a cast member of Saturday Night Live. He is also known for his titular role in Fat Albert, his role as a former cast member of All That, and for his starring role as Kenan Rockmore in the sitcom Kenan & Kel. He has released one album, 2002's Good Times Comedy CD. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kenan+Thompson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,630x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,080x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,036x
- The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools
· 1997 · cited 31,741x
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,979x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1978-05-10 ) May 10, 1978 (age 48) , Columbus, Ohio , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor comedian
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Spouse
- Christina Evangeline ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2022 )
- Website
- www .kenanthompson .net
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kenan
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- film producer
- Educated at
- Santa Monica College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Official website
- www.kenanthompson.net
- Image
- Kenan Thompson 2012 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Kenan Thompson
- date of birth
- 1978-05-10
- Commons gallery
- Kenan Thompson
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- name in native language
- Kenan Thompson
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Kenan Stacy Thompson
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Encyclopedic overview
Kenan Thompson (/kiːnən/; born May 10, 1978) is an American actor and comedian. He has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history. He was also the first regular cast member born after the show's premiere in 1975. Outside of SNL, Thompson starred on NBC's sitcom Kenan from 2021 to 2022.
Thompson began his acting career in the early 1990s, and was an original cast member of Nickelodeon's sketch comedy series All That (1994–2005), where he often collaborated with co-star Kel Mitchell. Beginning in 1996, they starred in their own sitcom Kenan & Kel (1996–2000). Thompson also had roles in The Mighty Ducks franchise, Good Burger and its sequel Good Burger 2, and as the title character in the 2004 film Fat Albert. His voice acting work includes Space Chimps (2008), Rock Dog (2016), The Grinch (2018) and Wonder Park (2019).
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