Damon Wayans Jr.
☼ Born on 18 December 1982, in Huntington, Vermont, USA
BiographyDamon Wayans Jr. was born at his grandmother's home in Vermont, in November 1982, and was raised in Los Angeles. He is the son of Lisa Thorner and actor Damon Wayans.
He made his film debut at age 11 in the 1994 film "Blank Man" playing the role of young Kevin. Later, Damon pursued his early passion for fine arts and animation in High School before admittance to the Otis School for Art and Design. He performed in a few bit roles on "My Wife and Kids" and landed a job as staff writer on the series becoming at 20, the youngest staff writer on television.
In 2005, Damon followed his father's comedic foot steps and braved the world of stand up comedy under the pseudonym Kyle Green. Damon Jr. has appeared performing alongside his father in the Showtime television series, "The Underground" (2006) and also served as a writer on that sketch comedy series. Damon also wrote, directed and starred in a series of innovative internet-based comedy sketches for "Way-Out TV" a website launched in 2007 by his father. In January 2008, Damon Jr. was featured on HBO's "Def Comedy Jam".
Wayans's first major film was Dance Flick (2009), a Paramount dance movie spoof, and he later starred on the series New Girl (2011) and in the film Let's Be Cops (2014).
This young and talented multi-hyphenate continues honing his stand-up skills, performing in comedy clubs across the country, while further pursuing his crafts of acting and writing.
In the role of actor
The Harder They Fall (28/10/2021)
An outlaw seeks revenge against the gunslinger who killed his parents in The Harder They Fall. Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) is the leader of a gang that includes Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi), Jim Beckwourth (R.J. Cyler), and his ex-love Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz). Nat learns that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), who murdered Nat’s […]
Trouble (23/06/2020)
A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with her estranged Northern Irish father in Trouble. Mariah Garnett travels to Vienna to meet her father David, who she hasn’t seen since she was two years old. Growing up in Belfast at the height of The Troubles, David was the subject of a 1971 BBC news story, solely for […]
Super Troopers 2 (21/04/2018)
The officers of the Vermont State Police are back in business in Super Troopers 2. After losing their jobs as both state troopers and local police, the team of Arcot “Thorny” Ramathorn (Jay Chandrasekhar), Jeff Foster (Paul Soter), MacIntyre “Mac” Womack (Steve Lemme), Robert “Rabbit” Roto (Erik Stolhanske), and Rodney “Rod” Farva (Kevin Heffernan) are called back into duty by […]
Big Hero 6 (24/11/2014)
From Disney Animation Studios comes this superhero adventure based on the series by Marvel comics. Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) is a 14 year old robotics prodigy living in the city of San Fransokyo. Initially using his skills for illegal robot fights, Hiro is convinced by his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) to enrol in the […]