Dwayne Wayans
Dwayne Wayans | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dwayne Howell Wayans |
| Born | July 20, 1956 New York City New York |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Writer/Composer |
| Years active | retired |
Dwayne Howell Wayans (born July 20, 1956) is an American writer and film score composer. He is a member of the Wayans family.
Early life[edit]
Wayans was born in New York City, the son of Elvira Alethia (Green), a homemaker and social worker, and Howell Stouten Wayans,[1][2] a supermarket manager.[citation needed] His family were Jehovah's Witnesses.[citation needed] He and his family lived in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. He is the brother of Keenen, Kim, Elvira (who was named after her mother), Nadia, Damon Sr., Shawn, and Marlon.
Career[edit]
He worked as production assistant and performed as background characters and in sketches on the shows of brothers Keenen Ivory Wayans (In Living Color) and Damon Wayans, Sr. (My Wife and Kids).
Dwayne's son has also composed original music for My Wife and Kids (2003–05), Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness (2006), and television series the Underground (2016).
Filmography[edit]
- Dance Flick (2009)
- Underground (2006)
- Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-Roc's Street (2006)
- Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness (2006)
- Little Man (2006)
- Domino (2005)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Stated on Finding Your Roots, January 19, 2016, PBS
- ^ "Keenen Ivory Wayans' Interactive Family Tree | Finding Your Roots | PBS". Archived from the original on 2016-01-24.
External links[edit]
- 1956 births
- African-American male actors
- African-American writers
- American writers
- American film score composers
- American male film score composers
- Living people
- Male actors from New York City
- Wayans family
- Writers from Manhattan
- 21st-century American male actors
- American male film actors
- American people of Malagasy descent
- People from Chelsea, Manhattan
- 21st-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American people