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Shawn Wayans

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Shawn Wayans

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Also known as Shawn Mathis Wayans

American actor, DJ, producer, writer and comedian

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Shawn Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer born in New York City on January 19, 1971. He is a member of the Wayans family and the Writers Guild of America West. His professional career began in 1988. He is an African American who speaks and writes in English.

Wayans has authored works including *101 Ways to Know You're a Golddigger*, *101 Ways to Know It's Time to Leave Your Momma's House*, and *150 Ways to Know If You're Ghetto*. He has three children. He is male and holds United States citizenship.

Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1971-01-19
Works
4

Top works

  • 101 ways to know you're a golddigger
  • 101 ways to know it's time to leave your momma's house
  • 150 ways to know if you're ghetto

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · New York City, New York, USA

Shawn Mathis Wayans (born January 19, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He debuted on the comedy television series In Living Color (1990–1993). He went on to work with his brother Marlon Wayans on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–1999) and the comedy films Don't Be a Menace (1996), Scary Movie (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), White Chicks (2004), Little Man (2006), and…

Known for

  • Scary Movie — Ray Wilkins2026
  • FOX 25th Anniversary Special — Self2012
  • Vanilla Ice Archive — Self (archive footage)2012
  • Dance Flick — Baby Daddy2009
  • Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy — Self2009
  • Little Man — Darryl2006
  • Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street — Slim/Cheapie (voice)2006
  • Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness — Slim (voice)2006
  • The Megan Mullally Show — Self - Guest2006
  • White Chicks — Kevin Copeland / Brittany Wilson2004

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1971

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
7

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Shawn+Wayans">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,640x

  2. MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy

    · 2017 · cited 8,659x

  3. Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma

    · 2014 · cited 4,600x

  4. Next-generation genotype imputation service and methods

    · 2016 · cited 4,029x

  5. Extension of Life-Span by Introduction of Telomerase into Normal Human Cells

    · 1998 · cited 4,019x

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