Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

137

Gender

Male

Birthday

1972-06-02 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

Columbus, Georgia, USA

Also Known As

وین بردی

Wayne Brady

Biography

Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an Emmy Award-winning actor, singer, comedian, host, and television personality, known for his work as a comedian on the American version of the improv comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as the host of his daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show. He was the original host of FOX's Don't Forget the Lyrics!, hosts the 2009 revival of Let's Make a Deal as well as Game of Talents.

He has been a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and on The Masked Singer.

Known For

8.1%

How I Met Your Mother

Sep 19, 2005

7.0%

American Dad!

Feb 6, 2005

7.0%

American Dad!

Feb 6, 2005

7.0%

American Dad!

Feb 6, 2005

7.0%

American Dad!

Feb 6, 2005

7.0%

American Dad!

Feb 6, 2005

8.3%

Stargate SG-1

Jul 27, 1997

8.0%

Everybody Hates Chris

Sep 22, 2005

7.0%

Black Lightning

Jan 16, 2018

7.0%

Black Lightning

Jan 16, 2018

7.9%

Phineas and Ferb

Aug 17, 2007

7.9%

Psych

Jul 7, 2006

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Acting

2025

Luke Null: Pretty Songs, Dirty Words as Self

2024		Is It Cake? Holiday as Self - Guest Judge
2024		Wayne Brady: The Family Remix as Self
2024		A Hip Hop Story as Freddy
2024		After Midnight as Self
2024		Self Reliance as Wayne Brady

2023

The Game Show Show as Self

2022		Blank as Henry
2022		The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022		Sherri as Self - Guest
2022		American Gigolo as Lorenzo
2022		Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution as Self
2022		Make Some Noise as Self - Player
2022		The Cuphead Show! as King Dice (voice)

2021		Ziwe
2021		Game of Talents as Self - Host
2021		Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical as Django

2020		Blindfire as Davon
2020		The Drew Barrymore Show as Self
2020		Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe as Stapler-Fist / Additional Voices (voice)
2020		Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party as Self
2020		Feeding America Comedy Festival as Self
2020		Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ
2020		Stars in the House as Self

2019		Laughing Matters as Self
2019		mixed-ish as Geoffrey
2019		Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019		A Black Lady Sketch Show as Reggie
2019		Lights Out with David Spade as Self - Panelist
2019		American Soul as Little Richard
2019		The Masked Singer as Fox
2019		The Masked Singer as Fox (archive footage)
2019		The Masked Singer as Self - Guest Panelist

2018		The Neighborhood as Isaiah Evans
2018		Sofia the First: Forever Royal as Clover (voice)
2018		Nailed It! as Self - Judge
2018		Black Lightning as Tyson Sykes / Gravedigger
2018		Black Lightning as Gravedigger

2017		Drop the Mic as Self
2017		The F Word as Self
2017		The Good Fight as Del Cooper

2016		Milo Murphy's Law as Eugene (voice)
2016		Match Game as Self - Panelist
2016		Straight Outta OZ
2016		Colony as Everett Kynes

2015		Celebrity Family Feud as Self
2015		VeggieTales: Noah's Ark as Shem (voice)
2015		Light Girls as Self
2015		World's Funniest Fails as Self - Panelist

2014		Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy as Clover (voice)
2014		The Hero of Color City as Blue (voice)
2014		Celebrity Name Game as Self
2014		Sofia the First: The Enchanted Feast as Clover (voice)
2014		Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars as Additional Voices (voice)
2014		Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
2014		The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self

2013		1982 as Alonso
2013		Sofia the First: The Floating Palace as Clover (voice)
2013		Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright as Brick Pimiento (voice)
2013		Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
2013		Hollywood Game Night as Self
2013		Sofia the First as Clover (voice)

2012		Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess as Clover (voice)
2012		Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne as Self
2012		Trust Us with Your Life as Himself
2012		Baby Daddy as Chase Baxter
2012		Foodfight! as Daredevil Dan (voice)
2012		Key & Peele as Centipede Buddy

2011

Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza as Self

2010		The Fran Drescher Show
2010		Katt Williams: 9 Lives as Self
2010		Wayne Brady Live - Making Shit Up as Himself

2009		Let's Make a Deal as Self - Host
2009		Cubed as Wayne Brady
2009		Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009		RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge

2008

Shatner's Raw Nerve as Self

2007		Phineas and Ferb as Guide (voice)
2007		Don't Forget the Lyrics! as Self - Host
2007		The List as Lewis
2007		Dirt

2006		30 Rock as Steven
2006		Comics Unleashed as Self
2006		The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
2006		Crossover as Vaughn
2006		Shorty McShorts' Shorts as Cameron
2006		Psych as Hilton Fox
2006		The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as Brer Wolf (voice)

2005		Jim Brickman at the Magic Kingdom: The Disney Songbook as Self
2005		Roll Bounce as D.J. Johnny Feelgood
2005		Everybody Hates Chris as Louis
2005		How I Met Your Mother as James Stinson
2005		The Tyra Banks Show
2005		Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out
2005		Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild as Reeko (voice)
2005		Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation as Self
2005		Dancing with the Stars as Self - Contestant
2005		Hell's Kitchen as Self - Restaurant Patron
2005		I Do, They Don't
2005		American Dad! as Astronaut (voice)
2005		American Dad! as Cuba Gooding Jr. (voice)
2005		American Dad! as Tungee (voice)
2005		American Dad! as Wayne Brady (voice)
2005		American Dad! as Major (voice)
2005		Getting Along Famously as Jackie Kinghorn
2005		The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self

2004		Kevin Hill as Pastor Jerry Carver
2004		Going to the Mat as Mason Wyatt
2004		Clifford's Really Big Movie as Shackelford (voice)

2003		Comedy Central Roasts as Self
2003		Reno 911! as New Jones - Deputy Culufu Garwood
2003		The Electric Piper as Sly, The Electric Piper (voice)
2003		Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003		Chappelle's Show

2002		American Dreams as Jackie Wilson
2002		The Anna Nicole Show

2001

The Wayne Brady Show

2000		Girlfriends
2000		Geppetto as The Magician

1999

Batman Beyond as Micron (voice)

1998		Hollywood Squares
1998		Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self

1997		The View as Self
1997		Stargate SG-1 as Trelak

1995		MADtv as Self
1995		The Drew Carey Show as Wayne Brady
1995		Star Search

1993

Raw

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1988		Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Himself
1988		Earth Girls Are Easy as Extra (uncredited)
1988		LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1983

Reading Rainbow as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1974		The Daytime Emmy Awards
1974		American Music Awards as Self - Host

1972

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest as Self

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

Production

2024

Wayne Brady: The Family Remix as Executive Producer

2021

Game of Talents as Executive Producer

2013

Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Executive Producer