Born: 1960

Like his older brother, Keenan_Ivory_Wayans, African-American performer Damon Wayans matriculated from standup comedy to series television to movies. He was a regular on TV's Saturday_Night_Live and -- along with virtually everyone else in the Wayans family -- In Living Color. Exhibiting a fondness for the outrageous, Wayans attracted both adulation and condemnation for his many In Living Color characterizations, notably the dour Homey the Clown and the excessively effeminate co-host of the "Men on Film" skits. Damon's first film was 1984's Beverly_Hills_Cop_2; he has since functioned as co-star (with brother Marlon_Wayans), co-producer, co-writer, and director of Mo'_Money (1992), and has been heard but not seen as the voice of a troublesome baby in Look_Who's_Talking_2 (1992). In 1995, Damon Wayans played a role once essayed by Charlton_Heston, in Major_Payne, a remake of Heston's The Private War of Major Benson (1955). Hal Erickson, Rovi

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