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What is Damon Wayans’ Net Worth and Salary?
Damon Wayans is an American standup comedian, author, and actor who has a net worth of $35 million. Damon Wayans first turned well-known on the sketch comedy collection “In Living Color” within the early Nineteen Nineties. He then went on to develop a profitable movie profession.
Early Life
Damon Wayans was born on September 4, 1960, in New York City, New York. He is one in all 10 kids born to Howell Stouten Wayans, a grocery store supervisor, and Elvira Alethia (née Green), a social employee. Many of his siblings additionally pursued profitable careers within the leisure business, and they’re generally often known as The Wayans Family.
Television and Film Career
Wayans first began performing stand-up comedy in 1982. His first movie look was a short cameo within the 1984 Eddie Murphy movie, “Beverly Hills Cop”. Then, from 1985 to 1986, he was a featured performer on “Saturday Night Live”. However, he was fired from the present after solely eleven episodes for improvising throughout a reside sketch. He has claimed that he wished to get fired due to what he felt like was a scarcity of artistic freedom and display screen time with “Saturday Night Live”. During the Eighties, he additionally appeared within the syndicated tv collection “Solid Gold”.
Together together with his brother Keenen, Wayans created the sketch comedy collection “In Living Color” on Fox. The present featured a largely African-American solid, and premiered in April 1990. The present continued to air till 1994, however Wayans left in 1992 after solely two years so as to pursue his personal movie profession. Films he starred in embody “The Last Boy Scout” (1991), “Mo’ Money” (1992), “Major Payne” (1995), “Celtic Pride” (1996), “Bulletproof” (1996), and “The Great White Hype” (1996). He additionally wrote and starred within the 1994 movie “Blankman”.
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In October 1996, Wayans produced the short-lived cartoon “Waynehead” for the WB. It was loosely primarily based on his personal childhood experiences rising up in a big family, and starred a poor boy with a membership foot, a situation he had suffered from as a toddler. Due to poor rankings, the present was cancelled after solely airing for one season. Then, from 1997 to 1998, he labored as the chief producer of the FOX community drama “413 Hope St.”, which starred Richard Roundtree and Jesse L. Martin. This collection was additionally short-lived. He continued on with this string of short-lived collection with the comedy present “Damon”, which solely ran for 13 episodes in 1998. He then starred as a part of the ensemble solid in Spike Lee’s 2000 movie “Bamboozled”, adopted by a starring position within the ABC comedy collection “My Wife and Kids” from March 2001 to May 2005. For his position on the present, he acquired 4 International Press Academy “Golden Satellite Award” nominations. Wayans additionally gained a 2002 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Male.
In 2006, Wayans produced and starred within the Showtime sketch comedy collection “The Underground”, which additionally featured his son, and he hosted that yr’s BET Awards. Then, he introduced his retirement from stand-up starting in December 2015. In September 2016, he joined the solid of the “Lethal Weapon” tv collection because the lead character Roger Murtaugh. The collection aired for 3 seasons from 2016 to 2019.
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Other Projects
Damon Wayans co-authored the e-book “Bootleg” with David Asbery. It was a compilation of his humorous observations about family, and was a bestseller on The New York Times listing. His second e-book, a severe fictional novel “Red Hats”, was revealed in 2011. It tells the story of a suicidal sixty-five-year-old girl who finds friendship and happiness after becoming a member of the Red Hate Society.
Personal Life
Wayans was married to Lisa Thorner from 1984 to 2000. He has 4 kids: sons Damon Wayans, Jr. and Michael Wayans, and daughters Cara Mia Wayans and Kyla Wayans. His son Damon Jr. can also be a profitable actor.
Wayans is a detailed private pal of NBA legend Michael Jordan, and fellow “In Living Color” star Jim Carrey. He was identified with Type 2 diabetes in January 2013.
Real Estate
In 2005 Damon paid $3 million for an ocean-view condominium in Santa Monica, California. He listed the condominium for lease in 2018 for $20,000 per thirty days.
In 2017 he paid $5.35 million for a house in LA’s Hancock Park neighborhood.
In 2007 he bought a house in LA’s Toluca Lake neighborhood for $4.4 million.
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