Wayne Brady

Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American actor, singer, comedian, game show host, and television personality. He is a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? He was the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, was the original host of Fox's Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and has hosted Let's Make a Deal since its 2009 revival. Brady also performed in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots on Broadway as Simon—who is also drag queen Lola—from November 2015 to March 2016, and as James Stinson on the American TV series How I Met Your Mother.

Wayne Brady
Brady in 2015
Born	Wayne Alphonso Brady June 2, 1972 Columbus, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, singer, comedian, game show host, television personality
Years active	1990–present
Television	Let's Make a Deal The Wayne Brady Show Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Spouse(s)	Diana Lasso ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 1995)​ Mandie Taketa ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2007)​
Children	1

Brady is a five-time Emmy Award winner, winning his first for his work on Whose Line? in 2003, two more in the next year for The Wayne Brady Show, and two for Let's Make a Deal. He was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance, for his cover of the Sam Cooke song "A Change Is Gonna Come".

Early life

Brady was born in Columbus, Georgia,[1] to West Indian parents[2] and moved to Orlando, Florida, as a young child to live with his grandmother and aunt. Brady refers to his grandmother, Valerie Petersen, as his "mom", since she raised him.[3][4]

At 16, Brady started performing in community theater and in the Orlando improvisation troupe SAK Comedy Lab, where he first started developing his improv skills. He attended Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, from which he graduated in 1989. In 1990, he enrolled at the University of Miami.[5] In 1996, he moved to Los Angeles where he continued developing his acting skills.[6]

Career

Brady first appeared on national television as a recurring contestant on the sketch comedy competition Kwik Witz from 1996 to 1999, appearing most often as partners with Frank Maciel. Brady was one of the improvisational theater performers in the original (British) version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, along with Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and host Clive Anderson in 1998 when the last season was filmed in Hollywood, after which he became a regular on the American version, hosted by Drew Carey, which was his first stateside television exposure.

In 2003, Brady won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his work on the show, the only person to win the award for a television series, as opposed to a special, since Dana Carvey in 1993.[7]

He went on to star in his own ABC variety show in 2001, The Wayne Brady Show, and a daytime talk show of the same name in 2002, which lasted two seasons and won four Daytime Emmy Awards, two of which went to Brady for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Brady guest-starred on The Drew Carey Show in 1999 and 2000 to take part in "Drew Live" and "Drew Live II". On the show, Brady played several games taken from Whose Line Is It Anyway? with other characters.

In 2004, Brady joined the Broadway revival of Chicago, playing the role of lawyer Billy Flynn. He appeared briefly in the final episode of the 2004 season of the comedy Reno 911!. He guest-starred on the Sci Fi Channel's hit series Stargate SG-1 as Trelak, the first prime of Goa'uld System Lord Ares. He made an appearance on Chappelle's Show, poking fun at his squeaky-clean persona.[8]

Brady wrote and sang the theme song for Disney's animated series The Weekenders. In 2005, he sang and recorded Jim Brickman's original Disney song "Beautiful" (a cover of All-4-One's 2002 hit "Beautiful As You") and its Christmas version.[9]

In 2006, Brady became the host of TV Land's That's What I'm Talking About, a talk show discussing the role of African-Americans in the entertainment industry. From August 29 to September 29, 2006, Brady hosted the Fox show Celebrity Duets.[10]

Brady made several guest appearances on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, playing James Stinson, the gay brother of Neil Patrick Harris's character, Barney Stinson.[11] Brady has also appeared as a guest star for the MTV show Wild 'N Out and lent his voice to the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken.

Brady guest-starred in the CBC comedy Getting Along Famously alongside his Whose Line is It Anyway? costar Colin Mochrie. He appeared on the episode "You Don't Know Jack" of the television show Dirt and guest-starred on 30 Rock as Steven Black, Liz Lemon's date for the Source Awards. He co-hosted the short-lived VH1 show Vinyl Justice in 1998. In 2007, he starred in the ABC Family film The List. He starred in Flirt, a comedy pilot which was not picked up by the network.[12]

Brady guest-starred as Julius Rock's gifted younger brother, Louis, in the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, and hosted a singing game show called Don't Forget the Lyrics! on Fox until its cancellation in June 2009. He performed "Wayne Brady: Making $%!^ Up" at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada four nights a week.[13]

He appeared on two episodes of Kevin Hill. Brady's debut album was released on September 16, 2008. Brady's version of Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" earned him a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance category.[14]

Brady started hosting an updated version of the game show Let's Make a Deal for CBS in October 2009, which taped at the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and currently tapes in Los Angeles. The show replaced the soap opera Guiding Light, which ended its long run. The original host of Let's Make a Deal was Monty Hall, who served as consultant for the new show until his death in 2017. Drew Carey currently hosts The Price Is Right, and thus, both game shows in the CBS daytime lineup (as of September 2019) hold the distinction of being hosted by an alumnus of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Brady was the guest host on the May 3, 2010, episode of WWE Raw, where he was involved in an in-ring segment with Edge and Randy Orton, eventually getting RKO'd by Orton. Later that year, in August, Brady played Tom Collins in a staged production of Rent at the Hollywood Bowl. The production was directed by Neil Patrick Harris.[15]

Brady appeared alongside Let's Make a Deal announcer Jonathan Mangum in two episodes of Fast and Loose, an improvisational series on BBC2 hosted by Hugh Dennis, in January 2011. Then, with Holly Robinson Peete, he co-hosted the 42nd annual NAACP Image Awards on March 4, 2011.[16]

On May 3, 2011, he appeared on Dancing With The Stars as the lead performer in a tribute to James Brown, celebrating what would have been Brown's 78th birthday in the Macy's Stars of Dance segment. He has also been a special guest of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza on GSN.

Brady made a cameo in the 2011 song "Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" by Lloyd featuring Lil Wayne and Andre 3000, narrating Lil Wayne's section of the song. He appeared as a special guest star in the March 14, 2012, episode of the TV series Psych.

Brady starred in the 2012 ABC improvisational comedy series Trust Us with Your Life and returned for The CW's revival of Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the summer of 2013.[17][18]

Brady guest-starred as Don in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Where's Pinky?" on June 7, 2013, and from February 9 to 13, 2015, guest-hosted The Late Late Show on CBS.[19]

In November 2015, Brady replaced Billy Porter as Lola in Kinky Boots on Broadway until March 2016.[20][21]

Brady assumed the lead role of Aaron Burr in the PrivateBank Theatre production of Hamilton in Chicago from January 17 to April 9, 2017.[22][23]

In 2018, Brady began a recurring role in the sci-fi drama Colony as Everett Kynes, the administrator of the Seattle colony and creator of an algorithm used in sorting and identifying people.[24]

On April 29, 2018, Brady won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host for Let's Make A Deal for the first time, after seven previous nominations.[25]

In November 2018, Brady began making appearances as Dr. Reese Buckingham on The Bold and the Beautiful.[26]

On October 10, 2019, he was featured in a 30-minute YouTube documentary created by SoulPancake in collaboration with Funny or Die wherein a variety of comedians discuss mental health called Laughing Matters.[27]

On December 18, 2019, he was named the winner of The Masked Singer Season 2 where he was revealed to have portrayed "Fox".[28]

Beginning in 2020, Brady plays a major recurring role during the third season of The CW superhero drama series Black Lightning as the DC Comics character Tyson Sykes / Gravedigger.[29] It was also announced that he had created a reality competition show to air on BYU TV called Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ, in which teens would be taught skills and compete in weekly challenges.[30]

Brady later appeared as guest panelist in Season 4 of The Masked Singer where he also sang Maroon 5's Memories as "Mr. TV" at the start of the sixth episode.

On December 28, 2020, it was announced that Brady would star as Django in a benefit concert presentation of Ratatouille the Musical, an internet meme that originated on TikTok, inspired by the 2007 Disney/Pixar film.[31] The concert streamed exclusively on TodayTix on January 1, 2021, and raised over $1 million for The Actors Fund.[32]

Personal life

Brady and Taketa in 2015

Brady has been married twice. He married Diana Lasso on December 31, 1993. They divorced on September 21, 1995. On April 3, 1999, he married dancer Mandie Taketa. He and Taketa have one child, a daughter named Maile Masako Brady, born on February 3, 2003. Brady and Taketa separated on April 5, 2006, and Taketa filed for divorce on July 2, 2007.[33]

In 2007, Brady became an official supporter of Ronald McDonald House Charities and is a member of their celebrity board, the Friends of RMHC.[34]

In 2013, Bill Maher compared Brady to President Barack Obama, in that, in popular culture, they were both supposedly "not black enough". Brady took issue with this statement, suggesting that Maher should "be careful when [he makes] statements like that" because it will allow his viewers to make the same stereotypical assumptions about black people.[35][36]

As a child, Brady developed a stutter. This led to him being bullied by other children, which caused him a great deal of anxiety.[37]

Brady has suffered from clinical depression. On his 42nd birthday, in 2014, he had a mental breakdown and later credited Taketa for helping him recover.[38]

Brady is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.[39]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Clifford's Really Big Movie	Shackelford	Voice role
	Going to the Mat	Mason Wyatt
2005	Roll Bounce	D.J. Johnny Feelgood
	Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild	Rico	Voice role; direct-to-video
2006	The Adventures of Brer Rabbit	Brer Wolf	Voice role; direct-to-video
	Crossover	Vaughn
2007	The List	Lewis
2012	Foodfight!	Daredevil Dan	Voice role
2013	Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright	Brick Pimiento	Voice role; direct-to-video
	1982	Alonzo
2014	The Hero of Color City	Blue	Voice role
2015	VeggieTales: Noah's Ark	Shem	Voice role; direct-to-video
2016	Todrick Hall: Straight Outta Oz	Todrick's Father	Visual album
2020	Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe	Stapler Fist	Voice role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Superboy	John	Episode: "The Sons of Icarus"
1993	I'll Fly Away	Damon	2 episodes
	In the Heat of the Night	Henry Ulmer	Episode: "Hatton's Turn" (Parts 1 & 2)
1997–1999	Kwik Witz	Himself	Syndicated improv
1998	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK)	Himself	3 episodes in Series 10
1998–2006, 2013–present	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (US)	Himself	Starring: Seasons 2–7, 9–; recurring: Seasons 1 & 8 Also executive producer (Season 9–)
1999, 2000	The Drew Carey Show	Himself	"Drew Live" and "Drew Live II" (improv episodes)
2000	Batman Beyond	Micron	Episode: "The Call" (Parts 1 & 2)
	Geppetto	Lazardo V The Magician	TV movie
2001–2004	The Wayne Brady Show	Host	Variety show
2002	Miss America	Host
2003	The Electric Piper	Sly (voice)	TV movie
2004	Chappelle's Show	Himself	2 episodes
	Sesame Street	Himself
2005	Stargate SG-1	Trelak	Episode: "It's Good to be King"
2006–2008	Everybody Hates Chris	Louis	2 episodes
2006	Robot Chicken	Pegasus 'Sunny Muffin' / Salam Fayyad (voice)	Episode: "Adoption's an Option"
	Crossover	Vaughn
	Shorty McShorts' Shorts	Cameron	Voice; 3 episodes
2006–2014	How I Met Your Mother	James Stinson	13 episodes
2007	30 Rock	Steven Black	Episode: "The Source Awards"
	Dirt	Henchman	Episode: "You Don't Know Jack"
2007–2009	Don't Forget the Lyrics!	Host
2009–present	Let's Make a Deal	Host
2010	WWE RAW	Himself
2011	Fast and Loose	Himself	UK improv; 2 episodes
	Are We There Yet?	Devin	"The Man and the Bragging Snafu Episode"
	Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza	Himself	5 episodes
	RuPaul's Drag Race 3	Himself/Guest judge	Episode: "RuPaul's Hair Extravaganza"
2012–2013	American Dad!	Cuba Gooding Jr. / Tungee (voice)	3 episodes
2012	Trust Us with Your Life	Himself	7 episodes
	Psych	Hilton Fox	Episode: "Shawn and the Real Girl"
2013–2018	Sofia the First	Clover the Rabbit (voice)	Main role
2013	The Problem Solverz	Uncle Chocofuss	Guest voice actor
	So You Think You Can Dance	Himself/Guest judge	2 episodes
	Phineas and Ferb	Don the City Hall Tour Guide	Guest voice actor/Episode: "Where's Pinky?"
2014	Hollywood Game Night	Himself	Episode: "50 Charades of Grey"
	So You Think You Can Dance	Himself/Guest judge	[40]
2015	The Late Late Show	Himself/Guest host	5 episodes
2016	Aftermath	Lamar 'Booner' Boone	2 episodes
2016–present	The Loud House	Harold McBride (voice)	Recurring role
2017	Drop the Mic	Himself	Episode: "Wayne Brady vs. Jake Owen / Kenny G vs. Richard Marx"
2018	Colony	Everett Kynes	Recurring role (Season 3)
2018–2019	The Bold and the Beautiful	Reese Buckingham	Contract role
2019	The Masked Singer	Fox/Himself	Season 2 winner
2020	Black Lightning	Tyson Sykes / Gravedigger	Recurring role (Season 3)
	Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ	Himself	10 episodes
	The Neighborhood	Councilman Isaiah Evans	Episode: "Welcome to the Campaign"
	Hell's Kitchen	Himself	Blue chef's table guest diner
	The Masked Singer	Himself/Mr. TV/Guest panelist	Season 4, Episode 6

Video game

Year	Title	Role
2008	The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon	Sparx

Theater

Year(s)	Production	Role	Venue	Location
2004	Chicago[41]	Billy Flynn	Ambassador Theatre	Broadway
2010	Rent[42]	Tom Collins	Hollywood Bowl	Los Angeles
2014	Kiss Me, Kate	Fred Graham/Petruchio	Pasadena Playhouse	Pasadena
2015–16, 2018	Kinky Boots[43]	Lola	Al Hirschfeld Theatre	Broadway
2016	White Rabbit, Red Rabbit	Solo	Westside Theatre	Off-Broadway[44]
	Merrily We Roll Along[45]	Charley Kringas	Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	Los Angeles
2017	Hamilton[46]	Aaron Burr	PrivateBank Theatre	Chicago
2019-2020	Freestyle Love Supreme	Self	Booth Theatre	Broadway
2021	Ratatouille the Musical	Django	Virtual	Benefit Concert

Discography

Albums

Year	Album details	Chart positions
		US	US R&B	US Heat
2008	A Long Time Coming Released: September 16, 2008 Label: Peak/Concord Music	157	20	2
2011	Radio Wayne Released: May 31, 2011 Label: Walt Disney	—	—	—

Singles

• 2000
  • "The Weekenders" Theme Song
• 2004
  • "Unsung Heroes"
  • "Between" – Wayne Brady with The Sesame Street Muppets
• 2005
  • "Beautiful" – Wayne Brady, accompanied on piano by songwriter Jim Brickman
  • "Don't Stop" – Jamie Jones featuring Wayne Brady and William Carthright
• 2008
  • "Ordinary"
• 2009
  • "F.W.B."
• 2013
  • "Whistle While I Work it" – Chester See featuring Tobuscus with Wayne Brady
• 2019
  • "Flirtin' With Forever"[47]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
2001	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	Nominated
2002				Nominated
2003				Won
	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Talk Show Host	The Wayne Brady Show	Won
2004				Won
2009	Grammy Awards	Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance	"A Change Is Gonna Come"	Nominated
2010	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Game Show Host	Let's Make a Deal	Nominated
2011				Nominated
2012				Nominated
2013				Nominated
2014				Nominated
		Outstanding Original Song	"30,000 Reasons to Love Me" for Let's Make a Deal (lyrics writer)	Won
2016		Outstanding Game Show Host	Let's Make a Deal	Nominated
2017				Nominated
2018				Won
2019				Nominated
		Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series	The Bold and the Beautiful	Nominated
2020		Outstanding Game Show Host	Let's Make a Deal	Nominated

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Further reading

• Weatherford, Mike (May 18, 2007). "The Brady Hunch". Las Vegas Review Journal.

External links

• Wayne Brady at AllMovie
• Wayne Brady at IMDb
• Wayne Brady discography at Discogs
• Wayne Brady at AllMusic
• "Wayne Brady: Training Day Parody sketch from Chappelle's Show". thetravisty.com.
• "Wayne Brady's 'Lyric'-al TV Return]". AOL Television. Interview.