Multi-talented Marlon Wayans is an actor, writer, director, and producer best known for his roles in some of the most talked-about comedy films of the last 25 years, including Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central, White Chicks, Little Man, and Fifty Shades of Black. He has also had his own two-season sitcom, Marlon; hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, and won praise for his straight acting roles, including the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream and sci-fi thriller GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Mayans was born in New York and grew up in the city’s housing projects as the youngest of ten siblings. It was his brother Keenen Ivory who created the Wayans’ big television break: In Living Color, a sketch show that ran for four years on Fox and won the 1990 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series. Marlon appeared in many episodes, but it was with another brother, Shawn, that he got his first major starring role, appearing in over 100 episodes of The Wayan Brothers, a sitcom that ran for four years on the WB Network.

Throughout the first decade of the 2000s, Wayans concentrated on films, appearing in many commercially successful comedies that grossed hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide. He returned to the world of sitcom with NBC’s Marlon, which ran for two seasons. His most recent film roles have included Sextuplets (in which he plays all six siblings) and alongside the legendary Bill Murray in the Sofia Coppola-directed On the Rocks.