| Marlon Wayans Born: 23-Jul-1972
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Religion: Jehovah's Witness
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Comic, Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Wayans Brother One of ten Wayans siblings, Marlon Wayans often works with brother Shawn Wayans, billing themselves as the Wayans Brothers. They are most famous for the first two Scary Movies, although neither was invited back for the third installment.
Wayans made his cinema debut in big brother Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, but it was pretty low-level nepotism; he wasn't much more than an extra. He joined In Living Color in 1992, just as Keenen was leaving and the shark was jumping. He later co-starred with Shawn in The Wayans Bros., one of the first black sitcoms that didn't seem to care whether it appealed to a white audience: "We're brothers. We're happy and we're singing and we're colored."
Again working with Shawn, Wayans wrote and starred in Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood and White Chicks. With David Spade, he made the humorless Senseless. Wayans was also in the 2004 reworking of The Ladykillers, with Tom Hanks, and showed his dramatic chops in the drug drama Requiem for a Dream.
Father: Howell Wayans (supermarket manager)
Mother: Elvira Wayans (social worker)
Brother: Damon Wayans (b. 1960)
Brother: Dwayne Wayans (b. 1957)
Brother: Keenen Ivory Wayans (b. 1958)
Brother: Shawn Wayans (b. 1971)
Sister: Diedre Wayans
Sister: Elvira Wayans
Sister: Kim Wayans (b. 1961)
Sister: Nadia Wayans
Sister: Vonnie Wayans
Son: Shawn Howell Wayans
High School: La Guardia High School of Music, Art, and Performing Arts, New York, NY
University: Howard University (dropped out)
TELEVISION
The Wayans Bros. Marlon Williams (1995-99)
In Living Color Various (1992-93)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Norbit (9-Feb-2007)
Little Man (14-Jul-2006)
White Chicks (23-Jun-2004)
The Ladykillers (26-Mar-2004)
Scary Movie 2 (4-Jul-2001)
Dungeons & Dragons (8-Dec-2000)
Scary Movie (7-Jul-2000)
Requiem for a Dream (14-May-2000)
Senseless (20-Feb-1998)
The Sixth Man (28-Mar-1997)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (12-Jan-1996)
Above the Rim (23-Mar-1994)
Mo' Money (24-Jul-1992)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (14-Dec-1988)
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2008 Soylent Communications
| 
