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Lena Waithe is an American screenwriter, producer, and actress. She starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series Master of None (2015–2017). She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the show's "Thanksgiving" episode, which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother.
Birth Name
Lena Diane Waithe
Born
Thursday, 17 May 1984
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Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| See It Loud: The History of Black Television | Self | 2023 |
| Being Mary Tyler Moore | Self (voice) / Self | 2023 |
| The 2010s | Self - Actor / Producer / Screenwriter | 2023 |
| House Party | Lena Waithe | 2023 |
| Sherri | Self | 2022 |
| Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration | Self | 2022 |
| The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Self - Audience Member | 2022 |
| The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder | College Maya | 2022 |
| Tab Time | (voice) | 2021 |
| The 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2021 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Kokomo City | 2023 |
| Being Mary Tyler Moore | 2023 |
| A Thousand and One | 2023 |
| Chang Can Dunk | 2023 |
| Beauty | 2022 |
| The One and Only Dick Gregory | 2021 |
| Them | 2021 |
| The Forty-Year-Old Version | 2020 |
| You Ain't Got These | 2020 |
| Twenties | 2020 |
| Queen & Slim | 2019 |
| Boomerang | 2019 |
| Step Sisters | 2018 |
| The Chi | 2018 |
| Master of None | 2015 |
| Ladylike | 2014 |
| Dear White People | 2014 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2017 | Emmy | Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Won |
