Marlon Wayans

Marlon Wayans ( born July 23, 1972 in New York ) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer.

Life and career

He had his first small film appearance at age 16 in the film Ghetto Busters. While studying, followed by other small roles, and after graduating from university followed from the year 1995, the television series The Wayans Bros., in which he played the lead role alongside his brother Shawn Wayans.

The series enjoyed great popularity in the U.S. and made the Wayans brothers nationally known. International were both celebrating their breakthrough with the film Scary Movie. Since then, Marlon Wayans is regularly seen in feature films, most recently responsible, In Ghost Movie ( 2013).

Together with his girlfriend Angelica Zackary he has two children, a son named Shawn Howell and a daughter named Arnai Zackary.

Others

  • Marlon is the son of Howell and Elvira Wayans. He has a total of nine siblings; four brothers: Dwayne, Keenen Ivory, Damon, Shawn and five sisters: Kim, Nadia, Elvira, Diedre and Vonnie.
  • He was originally supposed to play Robin in Batman Returns, but the director Tim Burton felt that it would have been too many characters in the film. In the following film Batman Forever Marlon Wayans should really be used, but as far as it came back not because Burton was replaced by director Joel Schumacher, who hired Chris O'Donnell for the role of Robin.
  • For his role in Little Man, he was awarded with the Golden Raspberry awards for 2007 along with his brother Shawn in the categories Worst Screen Couple and Worst actor ever a trophy.
  • In most films, like in Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, The Ladykillers and White Chicks he is dubbed in the German versions of Bernhard Völger. In Little Man was his German spokesman Björn Schalla.

Filmography (selection)

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