CULTURETECHLENSMarlon Wayans
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07321 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6101.
Marlon Lamont Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer born on July 23, 1972, in New York City. He is the youngest of ten siblings in the Wayans family, raised in the Fulton Houses housing project in New York City, and he attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before attending Howard University, which he left after two years. He appeared with his siblings on the sketch comedy show In Living Color between 1992 and 1993, and from 1995 to 1999 he co-starred with his brother Shawn Wayans in the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. With Shawn he is best known for the comedy films Don't Be a Menace, Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, White Chicks, and Little Man, producing the first two Scary Movie films, in which the brothers were credited writers and co-stars. He also earned critical attention for a dramatic role in Requiem for a Dream in 2000, starred in the NBC sitcom Marlon in 2017 and 2018, played Ted White in Respect in 2021, and starred in the horror film Him in 2025.
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Marlon Lamont Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer born on July 23, 1972, in New York City. He is the youngest of ten siblings in the Wayans family, raised in the Fulton Houses housing project in New York City, and he attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before attending Howard University, which he left after two years.
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- Also known as: Marlon Lamont Wayans
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 11; fourth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Marlon Wayans entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias match + token containment; CLEAR). ID CTL-E-6101 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 3 packet ordered reserve, position 16 of 35 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1642). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black America canon — a New York City-born national comedy figure from the Wayans family; no Chicago birth/residence claim is made for this PPL-001 record. Vital status: Living — verified. He gave dated on-camera interviews in September 2025 — CBS Sunday Morning segment aired September 14, 2025 and an Extra interview published September 18, 2025 about Him — and no death report was found. STATISTICS — STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Born July 23, 1972, New York City (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16); years active 1988–present (Wikipedia infobox, accessed 2026-10-16); The Wayans Bros. ran 1995–1999 and his NBC sitcom Marlon ran two seasons, 2017–2018 (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16). Unsourced net-worth figures circulating in birthday-profile search results (e.g., $40 million) were NOT used — no primary financial source was opened. No conflicting sourced figures in the opened sources. MEDIA: photo HELD (Photograph captioned 'Wayans in 2018' used as the infobox image on his Wikipedia page — specific image for a later PHOTO-001 pass to verify; no license claimed. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6101-marlon-wayans.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A (person record). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Persons carry no map in the packet standard.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged.) | audio = HELD (No rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged.)
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- Chicago International Film Festival — related to
An Evening with Marlon Wayans was a headline program of the 62nd edition and of the Black Perspectives 30th anniversary: Wayans received the festival's Career Achievement Award at the Logan Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, in conversation moderated by Omar Epps (official BP30 page; Cinema/Chicago release, Sept 14, 2026). CTL-E-6101 is the graph's live Marlon Wayans record; this edge touches a live endpoint and is staged for merge with this packet.
Sources
- Wikipedia, "Marlon Wayans" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Marlon Lamont Wayans born July 23, 1972 in New York City; actor, comedian, writer, producer; youngest of ten siblings, raised in Fulton Houses; LaGuardia High School and Howard University (left after two years); In Living Color 1992-1993; The Wayans Bros. 1995-1999 with Shawn; Scary Movie films, White Chicks, Little Man; Requiem for a Dream (2000); Marlon sitcom; Respect (2021); Him (2025) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Wayans (build store)
- Extra, "Marlon Wayans Talks Dropping 25 Lbs. for 'HIM,' Plus 'Scary Movie 6'" (published 2025-09-18, accessed via search 2026-10-16) — living-subject interview dated September 18, 2025 about Him, out September 19, and Scary Movie 6 — https://extratv.com/2025/09/18/marlon-wayans-talks-dropping-25-lbs-for-him-plus-scary-movie-6-exclusive/ (primary source · build store)
- CBS Sunday Morning via CBS.com, "Marlon Wayans on 'Him,' and on veering from comedy to horror" (air date September 14, 2025, accessed via search 2026-10-16) — Wayans discusses Him role, stand-up touring and comedy specials in a dated 2025 interview — https://cbs.com/shows/video/_MDdGnzwSnVc9S3TH8_hm7FpJVREou7s/ (primary source · build store)
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