Lena Waithe (born May 17, 1984 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, producer and screenwriter. She created the television series The Chi, Boomerang 2019, Twenties and is writer and producer of the film Queen & Slim. She acted in television and film including the series Master of None, which is she also a writer and became the first black woman to win a Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the "Thanksgiving" episode. Waithe's openly a lesbian as well.
Notable filmography
Film
- Dear White People (2014) - producer
- Step Sisters (2018) - producer
- Ready Player One (2018) - Aech/Helen
- Queen & Slim (2019) - screenwriter, co-producer
- Onward (2020) - Officer Specter (voice)
- Beauty producer
- House Party (2023) - Herself, cameo
Television
- How to Rock (2012) - writer
- Bones (2014–2015) - Staff writer
- Master of None 2015–2017 - Denise, also writer
- Transparent (2016) - Jane, 1 episode
- This Is Us (2018) - Animal shelter clerk, 1 episode.
- Dear White People (2018) - P. Ninny
- Boomerang (2019-2020) - creator, writer, executive producer
- Westworld (2020) - Ash, recurring role
- The Chi (2020) - Camille Hallaway, also creator and writer
- Twenties (2020) - creator and executive producer
- Big Mouth (2020) - Lena Foreman (voice), 2 episodes
- Them (2021) - executive producer
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (2022) - Adult Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins (voice), 1 episode
