This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Dwayne Wayans" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Dwayne Howell Wayans (born August 22, 1956) is an American film and television composer, and member of the Wayans family.^[1][2]

Wayans was born in New York City, the first child of Elvira Alethia (née Green; July 23, 1938–July 10, 2020), a homemaker and social worker, and Howell Stouten Wayans (August 26, 1936–April 1, 2023)^[3][4] a supermarket manager.^{[citation needed]} His family were Jehovah's Witnesses.^{[citation needed]} He and his family lived in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. He is the eldest sibling of Keenen, Diedra, Damon Sr., Kimberly, Elvira, Nadia, Devonne, Shawn, and Marlon.

He worked as production assistant and performed as background characters and in sketches on the show of Keenen Ivory Wayans (In Living Color).

• In Living Color (1990 - 1991)

• Dwayne Wayans at IMDb