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American comedian, actor, producer and writer
the actor's son

Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. ('/d//eɪ//m//ə//n// /'/w//eɪ//.//ə//n//z/; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. He performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year long stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He later became a writer and performer on Fox's sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990 1992), on his animated series Waynehead (1996 1997) and on his TV series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co produced or co written, including Beverly Hills Cop, Mo Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcom My Wife and Kids. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers.

Wayans was born in Harlem in New York City, the son of Elvira Alethia (Green), a homemaker, singer and social worker, and Howell Stouten Wayans, a supermarket manager. He has five sisters—Elvira, Vonnie, Nadia, Kim and Diedra—and four brothers—Keenen, Marlon, Shawn and Dwayne. He was club footed as a child. This attribute would also be given to his character in My Wife and Kids, and his character on the short lived cartoon series Waynehead. Wayans attended Murry Bergtraum High School.

Damon started doing stand up comedy in 1982. His earliest film appearance was a brief cameo as an effeminate hotel employee in the Eddie Murphy film of 1984, Beverly Hills Cop. From 1985 to 1986, he appeared on Saturday Night Live as a featured player, before getting fired after just eleven episodes for improvising during a live sketch, playing his character as a flamboyant gay cop instead of a straight cop. Wayans later claimed that he wanted to be fired due to lack of creative freedom and screen time. Wayans further explained that Lorne Michaels did not want Wayans to do too much too soon and began drawing comparisons to Eddie Murphy who had just left the show. He also appeared in the syndicated television series Solid Gold during the 1980s as a comedian. With his brother Keenen, Wayans created the Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color, which had a mostly African American cast. The show went on the air in April 1990. It continued running until May 1994, although Wayans left the show in 1992 to pursue a film career. After In Living Color, he starred in films such as Mo' Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Celtic Pride, Bulletproof, and The Great White Hype, and wrote and starred in the film Blankman. He also appeared in Janet Jackson's video "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and was considered for the role of The Riddler in Batman Forever (the role went to Jim Carrey, his co star from In Living Color and Earth Girls Are Easy). In October 1996, he produced Waynehead, a short lived cartoon for The WB, loosely based on his own childhood growing up in a large family, starring a poor boy with a club foot. The show only lasted a season due to poor ratings. From 1997 to 1998, he was the executive producer of 413 Hope St., a short lived drama on the FOX network starring Richard Roundtree and Jesse L. Martin. In March 1998, he starred in the short lived comedy television series Damon, in which he played a detective from Chicago. It aired on Fox. In 1999, his The New York Times bestselling book Bootleg, with co author David Asbery was published; it is a humorous compilation of his observations about family. In October 2000, he was the lead in Spike Lee's Bamboozled. Wayans starred in the ABC comedy series My Wife and Kids from March 2001 to May 2005. He also was a co creator of the short lived ABC sitcom Rodney starring Rodney Carrington and Jennifer Aspen that ran from 2004 2006 In the end of 2006, he produced and starred in the Showtime sketch comedy series The Underground, which also featured his son, Damon Jr. He also hosted the June 2006 BET Awards. In 2011, he also added author of a serious fictional novel to his credits with "Red Hats" which is the story of a suicidal sixty five year old woman who finds friendship and happiness, when she joins the Red Hat Society. as of 2014, Wayans continues to perform stand up comedy and has developed apps with his company of freelancers "MIMS" (Money in My Sleep). and VHedz. Lethal Weapon officially ended in February 2019, after three seasons. Damon Wayans will return to television in the fall of 2024 with his son Damon Jr. on the CBS sitcom Poppa's House.

Wayans received four Emmy awards nominations for his acting and writing in In Living Color. For his role in My Wife and Kids, he won the 2002 People's Choice Awards for Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series, and received four International Press Academy "Golden Satellite Award" nominations.

Wayans was married to Lisa Thorner; they divorced in 2000. He has four children with Thorner: sons Damon Wayans Jr. and Michael Wayans and daughters Cara Mia Wayans and Kyla Wayans. He is also a grandfather. In September 2015, Wayans defended comedian Bill Cosby following sexual assault accusations against him, saying "It's a money hustle Forty years – listen, how big is his penis that it gives you amnesia for 40 years? If you listen to them talk, they go, 'Well, the first time ' The first time? Bitch, how many times did it happen? Just listen to what they're saying and some of them really is unrape able. I look at them and go, 'You don't want that. Get outta here.

Year Title Role Notes 1984 Beverly Hills Cop Banana Man 1986 Triplecross Ornery Character No. 1 Television film 1987 Hollywood Shuffle Body Guard No. 2 / Willie Roxanne Jerry 1988 Colors T Bone Earth Girls Are Easy Zeebo Punchline Percy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Leonard 1990 Look Who's Talking Too Eddie Voice 1991 Jimmy Alexander Dix 1992 Mo' Money Johnny Stewart 1993 Last Action Hero Himself 1994 Blankman Darryl Walker / Blankman 1995 Major Payne Major Benson Winefred Payne 1996 Celtic Pride Lewis Scott James 'The Grim Reaper' Roper Bulletproof Detective Jack Carter / Rock Keats 1999 Harlem Aria Wes Goosed Dr. Steven Hemel 2000 Bamboozled Pierre Delacroix 2003 Marci X Dr. S. 2004 Behind the Smile Charlie Richman 2006 Farce of the Penguins Hey, That's My Ass! Penguin Voice Legends Bells Himself Television film 2008 Never Better Keith Television film 2011 Herd Mentality Jimmy Crowder Short 2023 Cinnamon Wally