
Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. Waithe was a writer on the TV series Bones and penned two episodes of the kids' musical comedy How to Rock. She has appeared in films such as Ready Player One alongside Simon Pegg, Bad Hair with Usher, and the documentary A Tiny Ripple of Hope. Waithe received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for her work on Master of None and also appeared in the series Dear White People. She has been a producer for series such as Them and Boomerang.
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- Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard Lena Waithe

Lena Waithe (The Chi, Queen & Slim, Master of None) is an Emmy-winning writer, producer, actor, and playwright. Lena joins Armchair Expert to discuss being a talkative kid in the South Side of Chicago, discovering television through her grandmother, and realizing she was a writer before the industry knew where to place her. Lena and Dax talk about the changing definition of celebrity, the hard-won evolution of The Chi, and her fairy godmothers in the business. Lena explains how identity can become mistaken for activism, how aging can be a privilege instead of a fear, and why the best conversations require listening instead of assuming.Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://www.allstate.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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- BORN
- May 17, 1984