Marlon Wayans
Highest Rated: 79% Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Lowest Rated: 0% Naked (2017)
Birthday: Jul 23, 1972
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
The youngest member of what may arguably be the funniest family in show business, Marlon Wayans may also be working his way up to becoming funniest member of the funniest family in show business. Regarding the formidable task of living up to the humorous standards set by his siblings, Marlon takes a healthy and positive attitude, considering his family an important exemplary support system rather than an ominous shadow casting impossible expectations.Born in 1972 in New York City, Marlon graduated from the School of Performing Arts in New York before moving on to study film and arts at Howard University. Following the lead of eldest clan member and brother Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon was inspired to pursue a career in show business. After taking a small role in brother Keenen's blaxploitation spoof I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988), Marlon joined the cast of Keenen's groundbreaking and trend-setting hip-hop variety show, In Living Color. A natural knack for comedy found Marlon quickly gaining momentum among the cast and refining the skills that would eventually lead him to bigger roles in both film and television. With his role in brother Damon's con-artist comedy Mo' Money, Marlon continued to display his talents for comedy with more substantial roles. Teaming with brother Shawn for television's The Wayans Bros. (1995), Marlon began to expand his responsibilities. Taking on numerous roles -- from writer to director and, of course, star -- Marlon learned the virtues of multi-tasking that would lead him to become a key creative force behind such spoofs as Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) and Scary Movie (2000). Wayans gained the majority of positive press earned by the otherwise run-of-the-mill comedy Senseless, and a few even compared him to the likes of Jerry Lewis, thanks to his talent for rubber-limbed humor. Yet Marlon began to seek out more serious roles. "I would do straight dramatic stuff. I'm trained as a dramatic actor," he said. "A lot of people just think I'm funny and crazy all the time, but I went to a performing arts high school, so I'm trained in the dramatic arts. I just happen to be funny." Though Marlon got deadly serious for his role as Jared Leto's drug-addicted friend on a collision course with disaster in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, he continued to display his exceptional gift for comedy by hosting the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards with brother Shawn, and developing the follow-up to his runaway hit Scary Movie.The early 2000s were less benevolent to Wayans. Critics singled out and excoriated him for his foolhardy appearance as Snails in the 2000 bomb Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie. Cited as one of the most wretched films of its year - or any year, by almost everybody, Dungeons barely made half of its thirty-five million dollar budget. USA Today wrote, "Marlon Wayans' performance as a cowardly thief would have seemed in bad taste a half-century ago." As Gawain McSam in the lackluster Coen brothers remake The Ladykillers, Wayans similarly did little more than reinforce an ignorant, filthy-mouthed, jive-talking ghetto stereotype; moviegoers responded slightly more favorably than critics.Perhaps sensing the need to return to his roots for a fresh success, Marlon spent 2004 and 2006 in two family vehicles: the raunchy comedies White Chicks and Little Man, respectively In the former, he and brother Shawn play African American federal agents who go undercover as blonde Caucasian sorority girls to bust a kidnapping scheme. This film climbed the charts to become a top weekend and summer grosser. Little Man, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and released in July 2006, uses trick photography and sight gags to turn Marlon into the dwarfish thief Calvin Simms, who attempts to retrieve a fenced jewel by posing as an infant and hiding out in the home of aspiring parents. Once there, he relentlessly torments his would-be adoptive father (Shawn Wayans).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Respect | Ted White | — | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | Feeding America Comedy Festival | Actor | — | 2020 |
| 14% | Sextuplets | Producer Screenwriter Actor | — | 2019 |
| 0% | Naked | Producer | — | 2017 |
| 7% | Fifty Shades of Black | Christian Black Producer Screenwriter | — | 2016 |
| 67% | Sweet Micky For President | Executive Producer | — | 2015 |
| 8% | A Haunted House 2 | Malcolm Screenwriter | $13.8M | 2014 |
| 65% | The Heat | Levy | $158.4M | 2013 |
| 9% | A Haunted House | Producer Malcolm Screenwriter | $32.6M | 2013 |
| 9% | Marmaduke | Lightning | $33.7M | 2010 |
| 34% | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Ripcord | $150.2M | 2009 |
| 18% | Dance Flick | Screenwriter Producer Mr. Moody | $25.7M | 2009 |
| 9% | Norbit | Buster | $95.4M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | A Boo Crew Christmas Special | Executive Producer Screenwriter | — | 2007 |
| 12% | Little Man | Producer Calvin Screenwriter | $58.3M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Hubert Selby Jr.: It'll Be Better Tomorrow | Actor | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Thugaboo | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 15% | White Chicks | Screenwriter Marcus Copeland Producer | $69.2M | 2004 |
| 54% | The Ladykillers | Gawain MacSam | — | 2004 |
| 35% | Scary Movie 3 | Screenwriter | — | 2003 |
| 15% | Scary Movie 2 | Executive Producer Screenwriter Shorty Meeks | — | 2001 |
| 10% | Dungeons & Dragons | Snails | $14.9M | 2000 |
| 79% | Requiem for a Dream | Tyrone C. Love | $2.6M | 2000 |
| 53% | Scary Movie | Screenwriter Shorty | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | The Tangerine Bear | Louie Blue | — | 2000 |
| 6% | Senseless | Darryl Witherspoon | — | 1998 |
| 23% | The Sixth Man | Kenny Tyler | — | 1997 |
| 31% | Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood | Loc Dog Screenwriter | — | 1996 |
| 53% | Above the Rim | Bugaloo | — | 1994 |
| 16% | Mo' Money | Seymour Stewart | — | 1992 |
| 79% | Batman Returns | Actor | — | 1992 |
| 64% | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Pedestrian | — | 1988 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% |
Sherman's Showcase 2019 |
Guest |
2019 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014 |
Guest |
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Drop the Mic 2017-2019 |
Guest |
2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2018 |
| 50% |
Marlon 2016-2018 |
Producer Marlon Wayne |
2018 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Today 2017 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014 |
Guest |
2017 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night 2013 |
Appearing |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Chew 2011-2018 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009-2019 |
Guest |
2016 |
| 100% |
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore 2015-2016 |
Panelist |
2016 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
@midnight With Chris Hardwick 2014-2017 |
Appearing Panelist |
2016 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003 |
Guest |
2016 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show 2008 |
Guest |
2016 2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
America's Got Talent 2006 |
Appearing |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
I Can Do That! 2015 |
Host |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Lip Sync Battle 2015 |
Performer |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
The Talk 2010 |
Guest |
2015 2014 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Conan 2010 |
Guest |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Deal With It 2013-2014 |
Appearing |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Funniest Wins 2014 |
Producer Executive Producer Host |
2014 |
| 96% |
Legit 2013-2014 |
Doctor |
2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately 2007-2014 |
Guest |
2014 2009 2008 |
| No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003 |
Guest |
2013 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Last Call With Carson Daly 2007-2019 |
Guest |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014 |
Guest |
2009 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014 |
Guest |
2000 |
| No Score Yet |
The Wayans Bros. 1995-1999 |
Executive Producer Director Marlon Williams/Michael Marlon Williams |
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 |
| No Score Yet |
In Living Color 1990-1994 |
Performer |
1992 |
QUOTES FROM Marlon Wayans CHARACTERS
Marcus Copeland says: Yo, hold ma poodle! Hold ma poodle!
Malcolm says: Father Doug Williams: Well, all you gotta do is let them in.
Malcolm says: What, you talkin' about demons?
Malcolm says: Father Doug Williams: Worse...the Kardashians. They got Lamar, they got Kanye...
Malcolm says: No...
Malcolm says: Father Doug Williams: They gon' get your ass.
Shorty says: Oh. Shit. Son
Shorty says: Oh. Shit son.
Shorty says: Can I tell you a secret... I see dead people
Shorty says: Can I tell you a secret. I see dead people
Shorty's Friend says: (about the bong) Ohh man! This shit is awesome!
Shorty's Friend says: Ohh man! This shit is awesome!
Kisha says: There's a ghost in the house!
Malcolm says: There's a ghost in your ass. (Referring to her farting the last night)
Malcolm says: There's a ghost in your ass.
Malcolm says: Bitch, there's a ghost in the house! Deuces!
Marcus Copeland says: Wazzup man, you got a problem?
Malcolm says: Nobody is going to hurt you on my watch. Unless somebody has a gun.
Malcolm says: O my god look at all of this shit.
Malcolm says: Oh my god look at all of this shit.
Kisha says: Look on the bright side I am allergic to dogs.
Malcolm says: Thats what was so great about Shiloh. He was hypoallergenic.
Malcolm says: Bitch! There is a ghost in the house. Deuces!
Marcus Copeland says: Move bitch!
Malcolm says: Three... Three people are dead.
Malcolm says: Did you just quote Sam Jackson?
Marcus Copeland says: Tripple TKA..... time to totally kick ASS!!
Marcus Copeland says: Tripple TKA..... time to totally kick ASS!
Tyrone C. Love says: That shit don't look so good.....ehw don't shoot in that.
Tyrone C. Love says: Dynamite... dynamite. Aha! DY-NA-MITE!
Heavy Duty says: [about handling the accelerator suits] Careful. They're worth millions of dollars each.
Ripcord says: [in a suit] Millions of dollars. Got it. [falls out of the van]
Heavy Duty says: Jesus...
Ripcord says: My bad. My bad. Won't happen again! [Gets smacked by a car]
Ripcord says: My bad. My bad. Won't happen again! [gets smacked by a car]
Snails says: I thought you said this was gonna be easy!
Ridley Freeborn says: No, I said it wasn't impossible
Snails says: That's the same thing you said when we robbed that little halfling's house. And who'd he catch? Me. And who'd he beat from the waist down? Me.
Snails says: I got a new name for "dumb": "Ridley"! This is the Ridleyest thing I've ever heard!
Snails says: I got a new name for 'dumb': 'Ridley'! This is the Ridleyest thing I've ever heard!
Tyrone C. Love says: Naturally
Tyrone C. Love says: Naturally.
Shorty says: I'm on T.V. Oh shit, first "Cops" now this. I'm gonna be a star, son.
Shorty says: I'm on T.V. Oh shit, first Cops, now this. I'm gonna be a star, son.
Ripcord says: All right, ladies! Mount up!