Lena Waithe
- Schauspiel
- 17. Mai 1984 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Place to Be · Shy
- Mating Season · Alex (Stimme)
- Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television · Selbst
- Reclaim the Flag · Selbst
- Long's Long Lost & Mini Mart · Ausführende Produktion
- Window Cleaners · Executive Music Producer
- It's Dorothy! · Selbst
- Honey Bare · Ausführende Produktion
- Good Hang with Amy Poehler
- Move Ya Body: The Birth of House · Ausführende Produktion
- Corpse Fishing · Ausführende Produktion
- Tender Thoughts · Ausführende Produktion
- Hollywood Black · Selbst
- Meal Ticket · Ausführende Produktion
- Play Hard · Ausführende Produktion
- Bitter Leaf · Ausführende Produktion
- Sarajin · Ausführende Produktion
- Kokomo City · Ausführende Produktion
- Order for Pickup · Ausführende Produktion
- Last Days of the Lab · Ausführende Produktion
- My Nights Glow Yellow · Ausführende Produktion
- Sorry Grandpa Hsiao · Ausführende Produktion
- A Thousand and One · Produktion
- Being Mary Tyler Moore · Selbst, Produktion
- Chang Can Dunk · Produktion
- House Party - Fake it till you make it · Selbst
- The 25th Filial Exemplar · Ausführende Produktion
- Sherri · Selbst
- Beauty · Produktion, Buch
- 100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu · Ausführende Produktion
- Beast · Ausführende Produktion
- Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings · Ausführende Produktion
- Black Santa · Ausführende Produktion
- Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
- Die Prouds: Lauter und trauter · College Maya (Stimme)
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Selbst
- Twenties After-Show With B. Scott · Selbst
- Artistic · Ausführende Produktion
- The One and Only Dick Gregory · Selbst, Ausführende Produktion
- Soñadora · Ausführende Produktion
- Shoebox · Ausführende Produktion
- Only the Moon Stands Still · Ausführende Produktion
- Bad Hair - Waschen. Schneiden. Töten. · Brook-Lynne
- THEM · Ausführende Produktion
- The Beauty President · Ausführende Produktion
- Amend: The Fight for America · Selbst
- You Love Me · Drehbuch
- Mein 40-jähriges Ich · Produktion
- Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 · Selbst
- #blackAF · Lena Waithe
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire · Selbst
- You Ain't Got These
- Onward: Keine halben Sachen · Officer Spector (Stimme)
- Visible: LGBTQ on Television · Selbst
- Queen & Slim · Drehbuch, Geschichte
- Fragile.com · Ausführende Produktion
- Frühstück, Mittag- und Abendessen · Selbst
- A Black Lady Sketch Show · Office Employee
- Boomerang · Idee
- Rising · Buch
- The Shop · Selbst
- Ready Player One · Aech / Helen
- Step Sisters · Produktion
- The Chi · Camille Hallaway, Buch
- Big Mouth · Lena (Stimme)
- Steve · Selbst
- Dear White People · P. Ninny
- Westworld · Ash
- This Is Us - Das ist Leben · Animal Shelter Clerk
- Master of None · Denise Watkins, Buch
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Selbst
- Ladylike · Consulting Producer
- Dear White People · Produktion
- Transparent · Jane
- I Will Follow · Production Coordinator
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Selbst
- RuPaul's Drag Race · Selbst
- Bones - Die Knochenjägerin · Buch
- The Comeback · Summer
- Grey's Anatomy · Evynn Moore