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

He has won five Emmy Awards for his speak-show pastime, and changed into nominated for a Grammy Award for his rendition of A Change Is Gonna Come through Sam Cooke.

Personal life

Brady and Taketa in 2015
Brady has been married two times. He married Diana Lasso on December 31, 1993. They divorced on September 21, 1995. On April 3, 1999, he married a dancer, Mandie Taketa. He and Taketa have one toddler, a daughter named Maile Masako Brady, born on February three, 2003. Brady and Taketa separated on April 5, 2006, and Taketa filed for divorce on July 2, 2007.

In 2007, Brady has become a legitimate supporter of Ronald McDonald House Charities and is a member of their movie starboard, the Friends of RMHC.

In 2013, Bill Maher compared Brady to President Barack Obama, in that they were each supposedly "now not black enough". Brady took difficulty with this assertion, suggesting that Maher needs to "be cautious when statements like that" because it will allow his viewers to make the same stereotypical assumptions approximately black people.

As an infant, he struggled with stuttering because of a tremendous deal of anxiety he felt from being bullied through different kids.

Brady has suffered from medical melancholy. On his forty-second birthday, he had a mental breakdown and later credited Taketa for supporting him recover.

Early lifestyles

Brady turned into born in Columbus, Georgia, to West Indian dad and mom, and moved to Orlando, Florida, as a young baby to stay together with his grandmother and aunt. Brady refers to his grandmother, Valerie Petersen, as his "mother", given that she raised him.

At sixteen, Brady started out acting in-network theater and on the Orlando improv troupe SAK Comedy Lab, wherein he first commenced developing his improv abilities. He attended Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, in which he graduated in 1989. In 1990, he enrolled at the University of Miami. In 1996, he moved to Los Angeles wherein he persisted developing his acting skills.

Career

Brady first appeared on national television as an ordinary contestant at the cartoon comedy competition Kwik Witz from 1996 to 1999, appearing most customarily as companions with Frank Maciel. Brady turned into one of the improvisational theater performers inside the unique (British) version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, at the side of Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and host Clive Anderson in 1998 when the remaining season changed into filmed in Hollywood, after which he became a regular at the American version, hosted through Drew Carey, which became his first stateside television publicity.

In 2003, Brady gained a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his work on the display, the handiest individual to win the award for a tv series, as opposed to a unique, since Dana Carvey in 1993.

He went directly to superstar in his personal ABC variety show in 2001, The Wayne Brady Show, and sunlight hours communicate show of the same call in 2002, which lasted 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 display, Brady performed numerous games taken from Whose Line Is It Anyway? For the two episodes with other characters.

In 2004, Brady joined the Broadway revival of Chicago, playing the function of lawyer Billy Flynn. He regarded in short inside the final episode of the 2004 season of the comedy Reno 911!. He guest-starred on the Sci-Fi Channel's hit collection Stargate SG-1 as Trelak, the first prime of Goa'uld System Lord Ares. He made a look on Chappelle's Show, poking amusing at his squeaky-smooth persona.

Brady wrote and sang the subject matter song for Disney's lively collection The Weekenders. In 2005, he sang and recorded Jim Brickman's original Disney music "Beautiful" (a cover of All-four-One's 2002 hit "Beautiful As You") and its Christmas version.

In 2006, Brady has become the host of TV Land's That's What I'm Talking About, a talk show discussing the function of African-Americans within the enjoyment enterprise. From August 29 to September 29, 2006, Brady hosted the Fox show Celebrity Duets.

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

Brady visitor-starred as Julius Rock's proficient more youthful brother, Louis, within the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, and hosted a singing game display known as Don't Forget the Lyrics! On Fox until its cancellation in June 2009. He plays "Wayne Brady: Making $%!^ up" on the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada four nights per week.

He regarded on two episodes of Kevin Hill. Brady's debut album becomes launched 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.

Brady become the guest host at the May 3, 2010, episode of WWE Raw, wherein he was concerned in an in-ring section with Edge and Randy Orton, finally getting RKO'd through Orton. Later that year, in August, Brady played the function of Tom Collins in a staged production of Rent on the Hollywood Bowl. The production changed into directed through Neil Patrick Harris.

On May 3, 2011, he regarded 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 phase. He has also been a special visitor of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza on GSN.

Brady made a cameo in the 2011 music "Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)" with the aid of Lloyd presenting Lil Wayne and Andre 3000, narrating Lil Wayne's section of the song. He seemed like a special guest big name within the March 14, 2012, episode of the TV collection Psych.

Brady assumed the lead function of Aaron Burr within the PrivateBank Theatre manufacturing of Hamilton in Chicago from January 17 to April 9, 2017.

In 2018, Brady assumed a routine role within the sci-fi Colony as Everett Kynes, the administrator of the Seattle colony and creator of an algorithm utilized in sorting and figuring out humans.

On April 29, 2018, Brady received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host for Let's Make A Deal for the primary time, after seven preceding nominations.

In November 2018, Brady started making appearances as Dr. Reese Buckingham on The Bold and the Beautiful.

On October 10, 2019, he became featured in a 30 minute Youtube documentary created by way of SoulPancake in collaboration with Funny or Die wherein a ramification of comedians speak intellectual fitness referred to as Laughing Matters.

On December 18, 2019, he became named the winner of The Masked Singer Season 2 because of the Fox.

Beginning in 2020, Brady will play a major ordinary position during the third season of The CW superhero drama collection Black Lightning as the DC Comics man or woman Tyson Sykes / Gravedigger.