Kenan Thompson

TV Actor

Kenan Thompson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on May 10th, 1978 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 45, Kenan Thompson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Kenan
Date of Birth
May 10, 1978
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Age
45 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$9 Million
Profession
Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Musician, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Kenan Thompson Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 45 years old, Kenan Thompson has this physical status:

Height
174cm
Weight
90kg
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Build
Large
Measurements
Not Available
Kenan Thompson Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Tri-Cities High School
Kenan Thompson Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Christina Evangeline
Children
2
Dating / Affair
Christina Evangeline
Parents
Fletcher Thompson, Elizabeth Ann Thompson
Siblings
Feleecia Thompson (Younger Sister), Kerwin Thompson (Older Brother)
Other Family
Clarence Robert “Ned” Callaham, Jr. (Maternal Grandfather), Clarence Robert Lee Callaham (Maternal Great Grandfather), Sam Archer Callaham (Maternal Great Great Grandfather), Hettie Lou Wynn (Maternal Great Great Grandmother), Esther Marshall Cheatham (Maternal Great Grandmother), Augustus T. Cheatham (Maternal Great Great Grandfather), Lucy Ann Marshall (Maternal Great Great Grandmother), Matilda Elsie Payne (Maternal Grandmother), William Payne (Maternal Great Grandfather), Charles Payne (Maternal Great Great Grandfather), Mearly Wards (Maternal Great Great Grandmother), Martha H. Thompson (Maternal Great Grandmother), Thomas W. Thompson (Maternal Great Great Grandfather), Matilda Fields (Maternal Great Great Grandmother)
Kenan Thompson Life

Kenan Stacy Thompson (born May 10, 1978) is an American actor and comedian.

Since 2003, he has been a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. Thompson began acting in the early 1990s and rose to fame as an original cast member of Nickelodeon's sketch comedy show All That.

He has worked with All That costar Kel Mitchell during his time as a contributor.

They began appearing in Kenan & Kel (1996-2000), an American sitcom.

Thompson is also known for his roles in Good Burger and the title role in the 2004 film Fat Albert. He has been given a Primetime Emmy Award from three others for his appearance on SNL, and is ranked #88 on VH1's Top 100 Young Stars.

Early life

Thompson was born in Columbus, Ohio, on May 10, 1978. Fletcher and Elizabeth Ann Thompson Thompson Thompson are his parents. He has two brothers, an older brother and a younger sister. When he was 9 months old, his family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. At age five, Thompson's mother enrolled him in acting lessons. Toto appeared in a church production of The Wiz, but he had no lines. He continued acting in school plays, including The Gingerbread Duck. He auditioned for The Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, a theater company (YEA). He was a fan of The Price Is Right as a youth and "very joyful viewing," which had a definite effect on his future acting style.

Personal life

On November 11, 2011, Thompson married model Christina Evangeline. They have two children, born in June 2014 and August 2018.

The two had been separated for more than a year, according to a journal, but they are now co-parenting their children. Thompson had officially filed for divorce on June 15, 2022, according to the newspaper.

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Kenan Thompson Career

Career

"Real News for Kids" was one of Thompson's early careers as an entertainment reporter for CNN's "Real News for Kids." He went on to appear in All That's first five seasons, including Principal Pimpell, Miss Piddlin, Pierre Escargot, and Superdude. Kenan Rockmore appeared on Nickelodeon's Kenan & Kel from 1996 to 2000, mainly while still working on All That. D2: The Mighty Ducks, he started filming his first film while attending Tri-Cities High School, a Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School in East Point, Georgia.

Thompson has appeared in many films, including Good Burger, based on the All That sketch of the same name, and Fat Albert, in which he played the title character. He has also appeared in D3: The Mighty Ducks, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, My Boss' Daughter, and Snakes on a Plane.

Thompson, a regular voice actor in Fox's Sit Down, Shut Up, portraying Sue Sezno, who, as evinced by her last name, never says no. On April 19, 2009, the series premiered, but only four episodes were cancelled due to low ratings and less than favorable feedback. In Nike's MVP "Most Valuable Puppets" commercials, Thompson appeared as LeBron James, who were supposed to be on display throughout the 2009 NBA Playoffs. In the fourth season episode "High Top Fade Out," Thompson appeared on the USA Network series Psych. He was Gus' dissatisfied college singing buddy. In 2011, he returned to Nickelodeon as he guest starred in "iParty with Victorious," a crossover episode of sitcoms iCarly and Victorious.

Thompson appeared in several of the block's early bumpers and hyping articles as a host of sorts of TeenNick's retro programming block. He'll bounce back to the block, eventually called NickRewind, but The Splat at the time for All That's 22nd anniversary was filmed at the 2015 New York Comic-Con.

Thompson will appear in Miles Mouvay's brand image in 2015. In 18 videos, eight 30-second advertisements, and a few comedic skits, Thompson will perform Mouvay.

Thompson appeared on "Ed" and "Lester Oakes, Construction Worker" on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon co-star Kel Mitchell, on September 23, 2015. In an episode of Nickelodeon's revived game show Double Dare, they later competed against one another in a match that aired in November 2018.

Thompson appeared as a judge on NBC's Come the Funny in 2019. He also served as an executive producer with Mitchell's All That revival, which premiered in June. In May 2019, NBC announced that Thompson's single-camera comedy The Kenan Show had been picked up for broadcasting. Thompson, a newly-widowed father determined to be a "super dad," appeared on NBC in 2021. After the first season, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. After its second season, the series was cancelled in May 2022.

In 2020, he became the spokesperson for Universal Parks & Resorts' "Let Yourself Woah" campaign, and he was supposed to chair the White House Correspondents' Dinner before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thompson will also be named host of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and People's Choice Awards in 2021. On Netflix, he also hosted The Jonas Brothers Family Roast.

Thompson co-founded the production company and talent incubator Artists for Artists in December 2021 (AFA). Mike Tyson's first revealed project, Undisputed Truth Part 2 is a joint venture between Mike Tyson and Lakiha "Kiki" Spicer and a sequel to the boxer's 2013 HBO special. AFA fully funded the launch of Twenty Two Entertainment, led by actor Michael Rainey Jr. and Gianni Paolo, who are best known from the Starz film Power Book II: Ghost in March 2022.

Ron, a Friend of the Children in the Hall and host the NHL Awards in June 2022, appears in the third episode of The Kids in the Hall.

On September 12, 2022, he hosted the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Thompson returned to sketch comedy in 2003 when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, becoming the show's first cast member after the show's 1975 premiere. Thompson had sent an audition tape to SNL several times, with them claiming he was too young, despite him not being concerned that "it was a few years." Thompson said he feared being on the show was a "disservice" to it, "it was strange for me for a long time." Thompson was a regular player throughout the 2005–2006 season (spanning the 29th and 30th seasons) and was promoted to repertory player at the start of season 31 (the 2005–2006 season).

He refused to appear any more black people on the program in 2013 and demanded that SNL recruit black people instead.

Thompson has been a cast member of SNL for 20 seasons, smashing the record for the longest-serving cast member in the show's history, which was previously held by Darrell Hammond, who appeared on the program for 14 years. Following Seth Meyers' departure, Thompson became the most senior cast member in the second half of the 2013-2014 season. He is also the longest-serving African-American cast member, surpassing Tim Meadows, who appeared on the program for ten seasons. Thompson also holds the show's highest celebrity impressions on the show, achieving 139, beating Hammond's previous record of 107. Although early on he intended to stay on the show until someone else came along, by 2019, he declared that SNL was his "forever project."

Thompson has been nominated for five Primetime Emmys for his work on SNL, winning twice. In 2018, 2020 and 2021, he was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the third time. He was nominated for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2017, a distinction he later received in 2018 for the lyrics to "Come Back Barack" (along with Chris Redd and Will Stephen).

Brian H. Tucker, a script writer for SNL, said that simply saying "KENAN REACTS" will make a script more laughs, and that "Put him in your sketch somewhere, or somewhere" will get a script more laughter, and that your sketch will get better. Kenan knows how to take ordinary lines and make them come out of jokes, and he's been known for making comeback lines and making them funny." Lorne Michaels would write about Thompson as "the actor I most rely on in the cast." He was described as "the heir apparent" to Phil Hartman in Vulture's "Jew-Letard," with both being "the glue" of their respective casts.

Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, Charles Barkley, David Ortiz, OJ Simpson, and Steve Harvey on the revolving Family Feud sketch were among Thompson's celebrity appearances on SNL.

During the March 5, 2022 episode hosted by Oscar Isaac, he has appeared in over 1,500 sketches, topping the mark.

Thompson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in honor of his 20th birthday on the show. It was placed next to Lorne Michaels' film.

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All That star Kenan Thompson urges Nickelodeon to 'investigate more' as he breaks his silence following 'tough to watch' documentary Quiet on Set

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 28, 2024
Just hours after Investigation Discovery (ID) greenlit a new episode of Quiet on Set, another Nickelodeon star is speaking out on the revelations: Kenan Thompson. The 45-year-old actor launched his career as a teenager in the original run of All That in the first five seasons starting in 1994 and the spin-off Kenan & Kel in 1996. Thompson appeared on the Tamron Hall Show on Wednesday, where he first spoke about all of the revelations about misconduct on All That and other shows created by Dan Schneider on Nickelodeon.

Kenan Thompson talks about 'falling out' with Good Burger co-star Kel Mitchell and their reunion for sequel film: 'It feels good to be back with my brother'

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 7, 2023
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell are back together for the Good Burger sequel, 26 years after first appearing together in the original comedy film. During a live broadcast on Today, the Saturday Night Live star revealed that the pair did indeed have a 'falling out' over the years, and that it took them five minutes to move on and become friends once more. Thompson, 45, told Hoda Kotb, 'It was more of a divorce that sort of developed into the common definition of what a falling out is,' which means there isn't a lot of communication.' When describing how they became estranged, the comedian and actor said that it all started with them waiting for their own names after appearing on two shows and then the first Good Burger (1997) film. "We were just looking for our own individualism, so as adults, we were taking a break from being a pair because we all went into it as individuals," Thompson continued.

Kenan Thompson says he felt 'exploded' while filming on 1995's 'heaviest moments' in his 'heaviest times' in his emotional new memoir When I Was Your Age

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 6, 2023
In his emotional new book When I Was Your Age, Kenan Thompson has admitted that he felt 'exploded' while working on comedy Heavyweights in 1995. When he made the film, the actor, 45, who promoted his latest film Good Burger 2 at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, was still a teenager.

Kenan Thompson's Ex-Wife is Chris Redd

perezhilton.com, September 27, 2022
Well, we certainly didn’t expect Saturday Night Live relationship drama to get juicier AFTER Pete Davidson left! Kenan Thompson and his wife Christina Evangeline split up in April after more than ten years of marriage. They had been over for a while but had kept it private, according to witnesses at the time. They have two children, which is sad. However, there was nothing scandalous about it — at least at the time — that we were aware of at the time.
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