Damon Wayans Jr.
Biography
Damon Wayans Jr. is an American actor and comedian who began his film career with Blankman (1994), playing Young Kevin. He went on to star as Brad Williams on the ABC sitcom Happy Endings, a role that brought him a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination, and he played Coach on Fox's New Girl. He voiced the character Wasabi in Big Hero 6 (2014), Disney's animated film, and earned a Black Reel Awards nomination for that voice work. His film credits include The Other Guys (2010) and the lead in Dance Flick, and he appeared opposite Jake Johnson in Let's Be Cops (2014). He also starred in the Netflix romcom Love, Guaranteed (2020) and the Western The Harder They Fall (2021), launched Two Shakes Entertainment, whose first show Glamorous premiered on Netflix, and began hosting Raid the Cage in 2023. He won an NAACP Image Award for his performance on Poppa's House.
43years old
Turns 44 on November 18in 40 days
- Born Huntington
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Damon Kyle Wayans Jr.
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 31 years1994 to 2025
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A role that slipped away
Wayans was cast as Coach in the New Girl pilot, but after Happy Endings was renewed, the producers replaced his character with Lamorne Morris's Winston instead of recasting or reshooting.
First role
Wayans made his first appearance on Def Comedy Jam, and the audience was so taken aback that they gave him a standing ovation.
Damon Wayans Jr. movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Eight actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Marlon Wayans's page
Tyler Labine's page
Also two films together2 more actors
- Hayes MacArthurSuper Troopers 2 (2018) and Someone Marry Barry (2014)
- Scott WhyteThe Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016) and Someone Marry Barry (2014)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Damon Wayans Jr.'s films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.2 billion
7 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 3 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$658M53.7% of the total
- 2$170M13.9% of the total
- 3$137M11.2% of the total
- 4$112M9.2% of the total
- 5$84M6.8% of the total
- 6$32M2.6% of the total
- 7$31M2.6% of the total
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