# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keenen-ivory-wayans
# Generated: 2026-09-03T13:24:28.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keenen-ivory-wayans"
name: "Keenen Ivory Wayans"
slug: "keenen-ivory-wayans"
description: "Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans first came to prominence as the host and creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed or written several films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he cowrote, in 1987. Most of his films have included him and one or more of his siblings in the cast."
tagline: "American actor, comedian, filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KeenenIvoryWayansHWOFMay2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
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birthDate: "1958-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           29.156792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Keenen Ivory Wayans"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump