Kim N. Wayans is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, and director. Wayans is the sister of Keenen Ivory, Damon Sr., Marlon, Shawn, and Nadia Wayans. She is best known for her numerous roles on the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color, and Tonia Harris on In the House. In film she appeared in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (both directed by her brother Keenen) and had a starring role in the art film Talking About Sex and later co-starred in Juwanna Mann as Latisha Jansen. She starred with her siblings on the Fox variety show In Living Color and A Low Down Dirty Shame. Her other television work includes regular appearances on the sitcom In the House with LL Cool J and a recurring role on A Different World. Recently, she has worked as a story editor on her brother Damon's sitcom My Wife and Kids. In 2008, she co wrote a series of children's books with her husband Kevin Knotts, entitled Amy Hodgepodge, about a multiracial girl adjusting to life in public school after years of homeschooling. In December 2011, she got a chance to showcase her dramatic chops with a supporting role as a mother who struggles to understand her seventeen-year-old daughter in Pariah. She was nominated (alongside co star Pernell Walker) for Best Supporting Actress at the 2012 Black Reel Awards but lost to Octavia Spencer for The Help.

Filmography

• 2026Scary Movie — Nurse Ratchett
• 2025Me (and You)
• Poppa's House — Caller #2 (voice), Writer, Director, Co-Executive Producer
• A Black Lady Sketch Show — Aunt Bev
• 2018Ray Meets Helen — Faye
• Marlon — Miss Shabazz
• Reckless — Vi Briggs
• The Soul Man — Dr. Owens
• New Girl — Susan
• 2011Pariah — Audrey
• Hawaii Five-0 — Diane
• 2009Dance Flick — Ms. Dontwannabebothered
• 2006Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street — Momma (voice)
• 2006Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness — Momma (voice)
• Criminal Minds — Darlene Beckett
• 2002Juwanna Mann — Latisha Jansen
• My Wife and Kids — Writer, Director
• 1996Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood — Mrs. Johnson
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Jackie-in-the-Box / Lulu (voice)
• In the House — Tonia Riley Harris
• The Wayans Bros. — Sheila
• 1994A Low Down Dirty Shame — Diane
• 1994Floundering — Unemployment
• 1994Talking About Sex — Andie Norman
• Dream On — Nicki
• China Beach
• 1988I'm Gonna Git You Sucka — Nightclub Singer
• A Different World — Allison
• 1987Eddie Murphy Raw — Interviewed Fan (uncredited)
• 1987Hollywood Shuffle — Customer in Chair
• 1987Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2013Why We Laugh: Funny Women — Self
• In Living Color — Self - Various Characters