Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans is an African-American comedian, actor and movie director. He founded the ground-breaking television variety show In Living Color and went on to star in and directed several movies featuring his famous siblings Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Kim Wayans.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005540/bio

In the summer of 2010, Wayans began shopping a movie idea for a film entitled It Takes a Village. The movie is intended to highlight the Hollywood trend of wealthy Caucasian women adopting babies from impoverished countries. Instead of being a smooth adoption, however, the movie's main character has to go through a series of events to prove her fitness for motherhood before the South Pacific village will allow her to take the baby.http://www.daemonsmovies.com/2010/07/20/new-wayans-movie-makes-fun-of-adoption-sort-of/

Wayans was a engineering student at Tuskegee University when he decided to drop out and become a comedian. He appeared in bit roles in television shows, including CHiPs, Cheers, and For Love or Honor, but found his big break as a writer on the Eddie Murphy concert film Raw. After this, he was a supporting actor in the film Hollywood Shuffle directed by Robert Townsend. In 1987, he directed and starred in the film I'm Gonna Get You Sucka.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005540/bio

By 1990, Wayans had developed the concept for the show In Living Color, which featured four of his siblings and fellow comedians David Alan Grier, Jim Carrey, and Tommy Davidson. The show also served as a launching pad for Jennifer Lopez who got started as one of the show's "Fly Girls" dancers.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005540/bio

Wayans left the show a couple of years later and began focusing on making movies. He directed and starred in the movie A Low Down Dirty Shame and also acted in The Glimmer Man with Steven Seagal. He later directed his siblings Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans in the movies Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2 and Little Man.http://www.blacklistproject.com/List/Wayans.htm