Shawn WayansFilmography

Born:: January 19, 1971 in New York, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: As a key member of what many comedy lovers consider to be one of the funniest families on Hollywood, producer/writer/actor Shawn Wayans has been instrumental in bringing such hit parodies as Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Scary Movie, and its sequel Scary Movie 2...Read More

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Dance Flick

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damon Wayans Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshanna Bush, Essence Atkins, Affion Crockett

Synopsis: A privileged white girl from the suburbs moves to the inner city and attempts to perfect her notoriously clumsy dance moves in this parody of popular dance movies. Damon Wayans Jr. and Craig Wayans star in a comedy co-written by Shawn, Keenen Ivory, Marlon, Craig, and Damien Wayans, who also Read More

5/22/09
Dynomite

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marlon Wayans

Synopsis: A former cop-turned-neighborhood hero previously framed for a crime he didn't commit emerges from prison to track down the culprit who set him up in a retro-themed blaxploitation spoof from Shawn, Marlon, and Keenen Ivory Wayans. Shaft, Dolemite, and Black Belt Jones have got nothing on Super Bad Read More

1/1/09
Little Man

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, John Witherspoon, Tracy Morgan

Synopsis: Fate brings a childless couple a bundle of joy -- who happens to have a criminal record -- in this comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Calvin Simms (Marlon Wayans) is a master criminal who with the help of his friend and sidekick, Percy (Tracy Morgan), plans a daring robbery of a museum where Read More

7/5/06
White Chicks

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Jaime King, Frankie R. Faison, Lochlyn Munro, John Heard

Synopsis: When brothers and fellow FBI agents Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) accidentally ruin an otherwise painstakingly executed drug bust, getting back into the good graces of their boss becomes a high-priority assignment in itself. With this in mind, Marcus and Kevin take on a Read More

6/23/04
Scary Movie 2

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Chris Masterson

Synopsis: This sequel to a box-office sleeper hit that spoofed teen slasher flicks takes its cues from haunted house and possession films, particularly The Haunting (1999) and The Exorcist (1973). Although many of the first film's main characters were homicide victims, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Anna Read More

7/4/01
Scary Movie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Cheri Oteri, Shannon Elizabeth, Anna Faris

Synopsis: After parodying the blaxploitation films of the 1970s in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes aim at slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s in this raunchy satire, which was produced under the clumsy but inarguably appropriate title Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. Read More

7/7/00
New Blood

Actors: John Hurt, Nick Moran, Carrie-Anne Moss, Shawn Wayans, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Family ties and violent crime make strange bedfellows in the thriller New Blood. Alan White (John Hurt) is a British businessman who is the father of a pair of twins. Alan's son Danny (Nick Moran) has fallen into a life of crime, while his daughter is in the hospital, in desperate need of a heart Read More

1999
The Wayans Bros.: Season 05

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis: Season four of The Wayans Bros. ended with aspiring actor Marlon Williams (Marlon Wayans) landing a regular role on the network sitcom "Everybody Loves Everybody," and Shawn Williams (Shawn Wayans) finding himself without a means of support when his newsstand burns to the ground. Thus, season five Read More

1998
The Wayans Bros.: Season 04

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis: The Wayans Bros. launches its fourth season with most of its familiar regulars back on the job: Shawn Wayans as hardworking newspaper-stand owner Shawn Williams, Marlon Wayans as Shawn's footloose brother, Marlon, John Witherspoon as the boys' restauranteur father, John "Pops" Williams, and Anna Maria Horsford Read More

1997
The Wayans Bros.: Season 03

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis: Season three of The Wayans Bros. is distinguished by the presence of Ja'net DuBois in the recurring role of Grandma Ellington, who presumptively moves in with her nonplussed grandsons Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans). Alas, the toothsome Paula Jai Parker has left the series Read More

1996
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Chris Spencer, Suli McCullough

Synopsis: Much as Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka parodied the basic elements of 70's blaxploitation pictures, this film written by and starring his younger brothers Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans pokes fun at the gritty "reality check" films of the 1990's, such as Boyz N The Hood, Menace II Society Read More

1996
The Wayans Bros.: Season 02

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford

Synopsis: Season two of The Wayans Bros. is shy several regulars from season one, notably Lela Rochon as Lisa, Benny Quan as Benny, and Joanna Sanchez as Lupe. However, series stars Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans are still very much in attendance as polar-opposite siblings Shawn and Marlon Williams, as is John Witherspoon Read More

1995
The Wayans Bros. [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford, Lela Rochon

Synopsis: Premiering January 11, 1995, the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. actually stars only two members of that large and apparently ever-expanding family of African-American entertainers. Fresh from their In Living Color success, siblings Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans (who also co-created this series) star Read More

1995
The Wayans Bros.: Season 01

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, John Witherspoon

Synopsis: The first season of The Wayans Bros. finds siblings Shawn and Marlon Williams (Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans) sharing the same NYC brownstone, with serious Shawn bringing in most of the money while merry-making Marlon is either goofing off or promoting some wild get-rich-quick scheme. Shawn hopes to Read More

1995
In Living Color: Season 03

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Jim Carrey

Synopsis: Season three of the Wayans brothers' cutting-edge comedy variety series In Living Color features most of the familiar regulars along with two newcomers: Steve Park and future Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx. This year's crop of guest stars include Ray Combs, Debbie Lee Carrington, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas Read More

1992
In Living Color: Season 04

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans

Synopsis: The fourth season of the Wayans Brothers' cutting-edge comedy sketch series In Living Color marks the first appearance of Marlon Wayans, holding his own with siblings Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans,Kim Wayans, and Shawn Wayans just as though he'd been a "regular" all along. Also making their Read More

1992
Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime, Vol. 2

Actors: Paul Mooney, Robert Townsend, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans

Synopsis: Actor, director, writer, and producer Robert Townsend presents this second volume of his classic HBO variety show Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime. Originally aired in 1991, the show helped launch the careers of comedians Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. This collection of comedy sketches Read More

1991
In Living Color: Season 02

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Jim Carrey

Synopsis: The Wayans Brothers -- Keenen Ivory, Damon, Kim, and Shawn -- continue to dominate the proceedings on the cutting-edge comedy variety series In Living Color as the show begins its second season on Fox. Still, the series' other regulars -- Jim Carrey (this year introducing the character of Read More

1991
In Living Color [TV Series]

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans

Synopsis: The brainchild of comic actor Keenen Ivory Wayans, the Fox comedy variety series In Living Color has been described variously as the "black Laugh-In" and the "black Saturday Night Live." Whatever the case, the series garnered big laughs and bigger ratings by applying a hip, cutting-edge Read More

1990
In Living Color: Season 01

Actors: Jim Carrey, Kim Coles, Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier, Anne-Marie Johnson, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kelly Coffield, Shawn Wayans, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh

Synopsis: The first season of Fox's Afro-centric comedy variety series In Living Color is dominated by the personalities of the series' creators, the Wayans brothers. Though Marlon Wayans has not yet joined the series, his siblings Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans and Shawn Wayans are very much Read More

1990
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Jack Spade (Wayans) returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains, leaving his widow Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis Read More

12/14/88
A Boo Crew Christmas Special

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Show Creator