Lena Waithe
- Acting
- May 17, 1984 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Lena Waithe (/weɪθ/; born May 17, 1984) is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (2019–20) and Twenties (2020–21). She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim (2019) and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them (2021–present). Waithe gained recognition for her role in the Netflix comedy-drama series Master of None (2015–2021) and became the first African-American woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the show's "Thanksgiving" episode, which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother. She has also appeared in Steven Spielberg's 2018 adventure film Ready Player One and the HBO series Westworld. In 2023, she was nominated for Best Play at the 76th Tony Awards, her production work on the sketch-comedy play Ain't No Mo'. Waithe was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was included on Fast Company's Queer 50 list in 2021 and 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lena Waithe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Place to Be · Shy
- Mating Season · Alex (Voice)
- Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television · Self
- Reclaim the Flag · Self
- Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart · Executive producer
- Window Cleaners · Executive Music Producer
- It's Dorothy! · Self
- Honey Bare · Executive producer
- Good Hang with Amy Poehler
- Move Ya Body: The Birth of House · Executive producer
- Corpse Fishing · Executive producer
- Tender Thoughts · Executive producer
- Hollywood Black · Self
- Meal Ticket · Executive producer
- Play Hard · Executive producer
- Bitter Leaf · Executive producer
- Sarajin · Executive producer
- Kokomo City · Executive producer
- Order for Pickup · Executive producer
- Last Days of the Lab · Executive producer
- My Nights Glow Yellow · Executive producer
- Sorry Grandpa Hsiao · Executive producer
- A Thousand and One · Producer
- Being Mary Tyler Moore · Self, Producer
- Chang Can Dunk · Producer
- House Party · Self
- The 25th Filial Exemplar · Executive producer
- Sherri · Self
- Beauty · Producer, Writer
- 100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu · Executive producer
- Beast · Executive producer
- Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings · Executive producer
- Black Santa · Executive producer
- Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder · College Maya (Voice)
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- Twenties After-Show With B. Scott · Self
- Artistic · Executive producer
- The One and Only Dick Gregory · Self, Executive producer
- Soñadora · Executive producer
- Shoebox · Executive producer
- Only the Moon Stands Still · Executive producer
- Bad Hair · Brook-Lynne
- Them · Executive producer
- The Beauty President · Executive producer
- Amend: The Fight for America · Self
- You Love Me · Screenplay
- The Forty-Year-Old Version · Producer
- Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 · Self
- #blackAF · Lena Waithe
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire · Self
- You Ain't Got These
- Onward · Officer Spector (Voice)
- Visible: Out on Television · Self
- Queen & Slim · Screenplay, Story
- Fragile.com · Executive producer
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner · Self
- A Black Lady Sketch Show · Office Employee
- Boomerang · Creator
- Rising · Writer
- The Shop · Self
- Ready Player One · Aech / Helen
- Step Sisters · Producer
- The Chi · Camille Hallaway, Writer
- Big Mouth · Lena (Voice)
- Steve · Self
- Dear White People · P. Ninny
- Westworld · Ash
- This Is Us · Animal Shelter Clerk
- Master of None · Denise Watkins, Writer
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Ladylike · Consulting Producer
- Dear White People · Producer
- Transparent · Jane
- I Will Follow · Production Coordinator
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- RuPaul's Drag Race · Self
- Bones · Writer
- The Comeback · Summer
- Grey's Anatomy · Evynn Moore