Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on May 17th, 1984 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 39, Lena Waithe biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Career
Waithe started work in Los Angeles as an assistant to the executive producer of Girlfriends, a long-running sitcom. She began playing a minor role in Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback shortly after. She became a writer for the Fox television series Bones, as a writer on the Nickelodeon sitcom How to Rock, and a producer on the 2014 comedy film Dear White People. Waithe wrote and appeared in the YouTube series "Twenties," produced by Flavor Unit Entertainment and optioned by BET in 2014. Waithe produced the 2013 web series "Hello Cupid" and the 2011 viral film Shit Black Girls, in addition to writing and directing the short film "Save Me" which was on display at several independent film festivals.
Waithe was one of Variety's "10 Comedians to Watch" in 2014. Showtime commissioned a pilot for a new series The Chi, written by Waithe and produced by Common, which tells a young urban Black man's coming-of-age tale. Waithe, the show's creator, wanted to use her time growing up on the South Side and seeing its diversity to create a story that portrays a more nuanced representation of her hometown than is usually seen. In the same way, she extended her reach to the Black-American community in the entertainment industry by serving as co-chair of the Committee of Black Writers at the Writers Guild.
Waithe was cast in the Netflix series Master of None in 2015 after seeing creator and lead actor Aziz Ansari, who, with Alan Yang, had initially written Denise as a straight, white woman with the ability to grow into one of the main characters' love interests: "I'm curious about you, a Black gay woman," the writer and lead actor said. The script was rewrote by Ansari and Yang to make the role more like Waithe: "All of us actors play heightened versions of ourselves." "I don't know if we've seen a sly, harem pants-wearing, trendy Topshop sweatshirt-wearing, snapback hat-rocking lesbian on television," she said. "I know how many women I see out in the world are very much like myself," she said. We exist. The visibility of it, to me, was what was going to be so crucial and so thrilling."
Waithe and Ansari received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017, season 2 episode "Thanksgiving." She was the first African-American woman to win an Emmy in that class. Waithe characterized the episode as being based on her lesbian experience. She sent a personal note to her LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) family during Emmy's address, detailing how "the things that make us unique—those are our superpowers." "Thank you for supporting a little Indian boy from South Carolina and a young queer Black girl from Chicago's South Side," she said. The Chi Chi is Waithe's latest autobiographical drama series. Waithe the Out100: Artist of the Year was selected by Out Magazine on November 8, 2017.
Waithe has been the voiceover of AT&T commercials' tagline since 2018.
Waithe wrote and produced Queen & Slim, starring Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluya and Melina Matsoukas, which was directed by Melina Matsoukas. Universal Pictures Pictures Pictures introduced it on November 27, 2019.
Waithe appeared in Onward, the Pixar animated film about the cyclops police officer Specter, the first queer animated character in Disney history.
She focuses on recruiting more people of color and queer artists for her film and television shows. Hillman Grad Productions, her production company, began a mentoring and training program in 2020 with financial assistance from Froneri ice cream company. More recently, she inked a deal with Warner Bros. TV Group in order to produce a TV version of Hoop Dreams.