Damon Wayans
Date of Birth: 4
September 1960 , New
York City , New York , USA
Birth Name: Damon Kyle Wayans
Nicknames:
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
An outrageous cueball-domed comedian of film and TV satire carrying
weapons by a dazzling, sly grin, New York-born Damon Wayans was the third of
ten children born to a grocery store manager and a communal employee and grew
up modestly in the Fulton accommodation Projects. He began zeroing in on his
comedic skills while motionless a child, magic up a number of weird font that
were later utilized on his older brother Keenen Ivory Wayans' ground-breaking
In Living Color (1990), the show that made Damon a huge humor star.
Ostracized by other children due to a harsh physical disability - a
club foot - humor was a physically powerful part of plateful Damon conquers a
severely sore and debilitating childhood. He wore leg braces, orthopedic shoes
and endured numerous surgeries before his suffering was corrected. Plummeting
out of high school in the ninth score, he worked various jobs (mail clerk, etc.)
awaiting following older brother Keenen out to Hollywood Hollywood
Damon gained main become aware of as an unfamiliar alongside Jeff
Goldblum and prospect co-star Jim Carrey in the wild and vague Earth Girls Are
Easy (1988), as well as in a variety of supporting roles that built-in
Punchline (1988) with Tom Hanks and the bleak cop drama Colors(1988) with Sean
Penn. Smart-alec superstardom, though, came to him via the TV (thanks again to
older brother Keenen) in the form of the marker sketch diversity series "In
Living Color". The show, created and hosted by Keenen, gave Damon a glass
case in which he with no trouble broke out among the talented ensemble players
with his eclectic gallery of sketch characters that usually surrounded on
raunch: Homey the Clown, the disabled Handiman and the disgracefully gay film
critic Blaine Edwards from the "Men on Film" skits. In 1992 Damon
followed brother Keenan off the well-liked show over original and monetary
issues.
For the last decade and a half the reticently sarcastic comic has turn
out to be his possess "Man on Film." He was Bruce Willis' associate
in the obviously violent offense thriller The Last Boy Scout (1991); wrote,
executive-produced and starred as a former con man annoying to repair his ways
in Mo' Money (1992), which too featured younger brother Marlon Wayans; long-drawn-out
his "In Living Color" handicapped superhero nature Handiman into
feature-length form with Blankman (1994); played an in-your-face drill sergeant
in the aptly aristocratic Major Payne (1995); co-starred with Adam Sandler as a
cop bringing in a petty crook (Adam Sandler) in the act humor Bulletproof (1996);
connected in the basketball-themed Celtic Pride (1996); and long-drawn-out his
acting strength in Spike Lee's comedy-drama Bamboozled (2000). He was also
decision-making creator on Waynehead(1996), a Saturday morning animated show
based on his childhood that featured the voices of younger sibs Kim Wayans,
Marlon and Shawn Wayans.