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Damon Wayans

Damon Wayans
Damon Wayans
Born: 1960 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor, Writer,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: Bamboozled, Major Payne, The Last Boy Scout
First Major Screen Credit: Roxanne (1987)
16 Videos for Damon Wayans
Farce of the Penguins (2007) Blankman (1994) Colors (1988)
Marci X (2003) Mo' Money (1992) I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988)
Bamboozled (2000) The Last Boy Scout (1991) Punchline (1988)
Bulletproof (1996) Look Who's Talking, Too (1990) Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
The Great White Hype (1996) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) Roxanne (1987)
Major Payne (1995)
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Biography:

Like his older brother, Keenan Ivory Wayans, African-American performer Damon Wayans matriculated from standup comedy to series television to movies. He was a regular on TV's Saturday Night Live and -- along with virtually everyone else in the Wayans family -- In Living Color.

Exhibiting a fondness for the outrageous, Wayans attracted both adulation and condemnation for his many In Living Color characterizations, notably the dour Homey the Clown and the excessively effeminate co-host of the Men on Film skits. Damon's first film was 1984's Beverly Hills Cop 2; he has since functioned as co-star (with brother Marlon Wayans), co-producer, co-writer, and director of Mo' Money (1992), and has been heard but not seen as the voice of a troublesome baby in Look Who's Talking 2 (1992).

In 1995, Damon Wayans played a role once essayed by Charlton Heston, in Major Payne, a remake of Heston's The Private War of Major Benson (1955). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.