Marlon Wayans is an American actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. Many people learned about him thanks to such projects as “The Sixth Player”, “Cobra Throw”, “Naughty”, “Norbit Tricks”, “Requiem for a Dream” and others. In this article we will focus on a brief biography of the actor, as well as a more detailed look at his work.
Biography
Marlon Lamont Wayans was born in 1972 in New York thanks to social worker Elvira and manager of a large supermarket Howell Stouten. And he is the youngest of ten children in this family. Marlon studied at the Fiorello Guardia High School, where he learned music, art and theater. And after school, he entered Howard University in Washington.
Marlon loves American football and basketball and is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Knicks, respectively. At the moment, the actor is in a relationship with Angelica Zachary, from whom he had two children - daughter Emey and son Sean.
Carier start
So, when did Marlon Wayans get fame ? His filmography began back in school years. But this was not a surprise, considering where he studied. Marlon played a pedestrian in a comedy action movie shot by his older brother, Kenen Ivory Wayans, “I Will Get You, Bastard” (1988). And the next role of the con man Seymour Stewart got only four years later in the criminal comedy of Peter MacDonald's "Big Money" (1992).
Two years later, Marlon Wayans (Marlon Wayans), together with Tupac Shakur (who, it seems, was his close friend) and Dwayne Martin starred in the crime drama Jeff Pollack's "Over the Ring". Then he played a gangster and drug dealer named Lok Dog in the comedy film Do Not Threaten the South Central, Drinking Juice in Your Quarter, created in 1996 by American director Paris Barclay. And played the role of Kenny Tyler, the star of the school basketball team, in Randall Miller’s fantasy comedy The Sixth Player (1997).
Very scary chicks
In 1998, the actor played Darryl Witherspoon - a desperate student who decided for the sake of money for a dubious experiment, in Penelope Sfiris's fantastic comedy “Without Feelings”. He appeared in the image of Tyrone Love, a friend of the protagonist, in the psychological film “Requiem for a Dream” (2000) produced by Darren Aronofsky. And, of course, many people remember him by the role of a character nicknamed Melkiy in two parts of the parody comedy “A Very Scary Movie”.
In the fantasy film Dungeon of the Dragons, shot by Courtney Solomon in 2000, Marlon Wayans played Snails, one of the thieves whom Empress Savina sent in search of an amulet of red dragons. The role of the hot-tempered doorman at the casino, Gavaine McSam, he got in the comedy project "Gentlemen's Games" (2004), created by the Cohen brothers. And in the same year, he starred in another film of his brother - the black comedy "White Chicks", where he played one of the FBI agents appointed to protect the heirs of a large cruise company. Despite the fact that the picture received rather low ratings on the corresponding resources, box office receipts exceeded the budget spent several times.
Throw Norbith
In 2006, Keenen Ivory Wayans invited his younger brothers, Marlon and Sean Wayans, to his next comedy project, The Naughty. In the picture, Marlon got the role of a miniature robber named Calvin Smith, who had to portray a child in order to take possession of a huge diamond.
Following an episodic role in the drama series Raven Metzner and Stuart Sicherman's Six Degrees, Marlon Wayans appeared in the romantic comedy The Tricks of the Norbit (2007). Moreover, the film, in which the main role went to
Eddie Murphy, earned three Golden Raspberry Awards in the three worst categories.
In 2009, the actor played a small role in the musical comedy Damien Dante Wayans "Without Ensemble", a script for which many members of his family worked on. In the same year, Marlon played Wallace Weems or Ripcord, one of the main characters of “Cobra Throw” - the fantastic action movie Stephen Sommers. He also played in one episode of Rob Cordry’s comedy series Children's Hospital (2008-2016).
Fifty shades of paranormal
In 2013, Michael Tiddes finished filming a comedy with elements of the parody of The House with the Paranormal, a script written by Marlon Wayans. Films of a similar genre are not new for an actor, given that at one time he helped in the creation of a series of projects called “Scary Movie”. Of course, the picture, based on the plots of “Paranormal Appearance” and “The Devil Inside,” received crushing reviews, as did the second part, released a year later. But is it really important when cash receipts are several times the amount spent on production?
Among the latest projects with the participation of Marlon, the crime comedy “Cops in Skirts” (2013) is noted, where Sandra Bullock played the main role. His work as a screenwriter and actor can be estimated by the comedy project “50 Shades of Black” (2016). Then he got the main role in the comedy film of the same director “Naked” (2017). And in the famous comedy series Christopher Moynihan "Marlon" (2016- ...) Marlon Wayans played the main character -
Marlon Wayne