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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

147

Gender

Female

Birthday

1964-03-07 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Portsmouth, Virginia, USA

Also Known As

Wanda Yvette Sykes
וונדה סייקס
واندا سایکس

Wanda Sykes

Biography

Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America.

She is well known for her role as Barb on The New Adventures of Old Christine and for her appearances on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In November 2009 The Wanda Sykes Show, her own late-night talkshow, premiered on Fox, airing Saturday nights.

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Acting

—		Undercard as Cheryl 'No Mercy' Stewart
—		Tangles

2025		Everybody's Live with John Mulaney as Self - Comedian
2025		Lil Kev as Nancy (voice)

2024		Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie as Sue Nahmee
2024		Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution as Self
2024		Good Times as Mrs. Likeigiveashit (voice)
2024		Rock, Paper, Scissors as Dian (voice)

2023		Albert Brooks: Defending My Life as Self
2023		Wanda Sykes: I'm an Entertainer as Self
2023		History of the World: Part II as Various Characters
2023		Velma as Krista (voice)
2023		Velma as Linda (voice)

2022		The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022		Sherri as Self - Guest
2022		Gutsy as Self
2022		Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
2022		Chivalry as Jean Shrill
2022		Alabama Jackson as Harriet Tubman

2021		Q-Force as Deb (voice)
2021		The One and Only Dick Gregory as Self
2021		The Upshaws as Lucretia
2021		Star Wars: The Bad Batch as Phee Genoa (voice)
2021		Roll Up Your Sleeves as Self
2021		Breaking News in Yuba County as Rita

2020		The Holiday Movies That Made Us as Self (archive footage)
2020		Friendsgiving as Fairy Gay Mother #1
2020		Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles
2020		Feeding America Comedy Festival as Self
2020		Visible: Out on Television as Self

2019		Harley Quinn as Queen of Fables (voice)
2019		Jexi as Denice
2019		The Wedding Year as Janet / Grandma
2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self - Guest Host
2019		A Black Lady Sketch Show as Heckler
2019		Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? as Wanda Sykes (voice)
2019		Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" as Louise Jefferson
2019		Wanda Sykes: Not Normal as Herself
2019		UglyDolls as Wage (voice)
2019		The Other Two as Shuli Kucerac

2018		Vampirina: Ghoul Girls Rock!
2018		Julia Louis-Dreyfus: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize as Self
2018		The Shop as Self
2018		Summer Camp Island as Ethel (voice)
2018		Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate as Prison Matron
2018		Lie Detector as Self

2017		Big Mouth as Ghost of Harriet Tubman (voice)
2017		A Bad Moms Christmas as Dr. Elizabeth Karl
2017		Snatched as Ruth
2017		The Good Fight as Allegra Durado

2016		Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016		Wanda Sykes: What Happened… Ms. Sykes? as Herself
2016		Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) as Self (archive footage)
2016		Ask the Storybots
2016		Bad Moms as Dr. Elizabeth Karl
2016		Ice Age: Collision Course as Granny (voice)
2016		To Tell the Truth as Self - Panelist
2016		Chelsea as Self

2015		Jay Leno's Garage as Self
2015		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015		Celebrity Family Feud as Self
2015		How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come as Goddess
2015		Lip Sync Battle as Self
2015		The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2015		Hot Ones as Self

2014		Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero as Shirley B. Awesome (voice)
2014		black-ish as Daphne Lido
2014		BoJack Horseman as Mary-Beth (voice)
2014		Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014		Broad City as Dara

2013		The Hot Flashes as Florine Clarkston
2013		The Out List as Herself
2013		Alpha House as Senator Rosalyn DuPeche

2012		Ice Age: Continental Drift as Granny (voice)
2012		Finding Your Roots as Self
2012		Inside Comedy as Self

2011		Ridiculousness as Self
2011		Rio as Chloe / Goose (voice)
2011		Bob's Burgers as Sofa Queen (voice)

2010

Conan as Self

2009		The Wanda Sykes Show
2009		Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me as Herself
2009		The Jay Leno Show as Self
2009		Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009		Drop Dead Diva as Judge Yvonne Wright
2009		RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge

2008

The Wendy Williams Show

2007		Back at the Barnyard as Bessy
2007		License to Wed as Doctor (uncredited)
2007		Evan Almighty as Rita
2007		The Graham Norton Show as Self

2006		Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' as Self / Wife
2006		Hammy's Boomerang Adventure as Stella (voice)
2006		Wanda Sykes: Sick and Tired as Herself
2006		The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
2006		Brother Bear 2 as Innoko (voice)
2006		Barnyard as Bessy the Cow (voice)
2006		Clerks II as Wife
2006		My Super Ex-Girlfriend as Carla Dunkirk
2006		Over the Hedge as Stella (voice)
2006		World's Greatest Stand Up: Volume One as self
2006		The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as Sister Moon (voice)
2006		The New Adventures of Old Christine as Barb Baran

2005		Earth to America as Self
2005		Just for Laughs Stand Up, Vol. 1: Best of the Uptown Comics as Herself
2005		Noah's Arc as Evelyn Nicholson
2005		Monster-in-Law as Ruby
2005		Robot Chicken as Harriet Tubman (voice)
2005		The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self

2004		Miley's New Year's Eve Party as Self - Guest
2004		Wanda Does It

2003		The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003		MTV Reloaded as The Oracle
2003		Wanda at Large as Wanda Mildred Hawkins
2003		Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003		Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2003		Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied as Herself
2003		Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! as Self