Explore Lena Waithe net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Screenwriter and actress well-known for her character Denise in Denise on the Netflix the original series of comedy Master of None. The year 2017 was the last time she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for her contribution to”Thanksgiving,” the “Thanksgiving” episode of Master of None along with Screenwriter and actress who is famous for her role as Denise on the Netflix original comedy series Master of None. In 2017, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for her work on the “Thanksgiving” episode of Master of None alongside Aziz Ansari… In this article, we will discover how old is Lena Waithe? Who is Lena Waithe dating now & how much money does Lena Waithe have?

Name	Lena Waithe
First Name	Lena
Last Name	Waithe
Occupation	Screenwriter
Birthday	May 17
Birth Year	1984
Place of Birth	Chicago
Home Town	Illinois
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Taurus
Full/Birth Name
Parents	Ethel Laverne
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Not Known
Children(s)	Not Available

Lena Waithe Biography

Lena Waithe is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on May 17, 1984 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is the host of her own Showtime show The Chi is produced by Her Showtime series The Chi is produced by Common, who also grew up on Chicago’s south side. who was also raised on Chicago’s south side.

Waithe was born in Chicago, Illinois. Though acting was not originally among Waithe’s ambitions, she knew from the age of seven that she wanted to be a television writer, and received strong family support for her writing from her single mother and grandmother: Her parents had divorced when she was three; Waithe’s father died when she was fourteen. Waithe and her sister grew up on the South Side of Chicago until Waithe was age twelve, and attended a local, mostly African-American elementary magnet school, Turner-Drew but moved to Evanston and finished middle school at Chute Middle School. She graduated from Evanston Township High School and earned a degree in Cinema and Television Arts from Columbia College Chicago in 2006, praising faculty playwright Michael Fry for his teaching and encouragement. Finding more ways to involve herself in the television and film industry, she also worked at a movie theater as well as the media department of a Blockbuster. In 2006 she transferred her Blockbuster job to Los Angeles to begin pursuing her ambitions.

Having arrived in Los Angeles, Waithe secured a job as an assistant to the executive producer of Girlfriends, a long running sitcom. Soon after, she landed a minor role in Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback. She later became a writer for the Fox television series Bones, a writer for the 2012 Nickelodeon sitcom How to Rock, and a producer on the 2014 satirical comedy film Dear White People. Waithe wrote and appeared in the YouTube series “Twenties” which was produced by Flavor Unit Entertainment and optioned in 2014 by BET. In addition to writing and directing the short film “Save Me”, which was shown at several independent film festivals, Waithe wrote the 2013 web series “Hello Cupid” and the 2011 viral video Shit Black Girls Say.

Her parents supported her choice to explore writing as a career. She got married Alana Mayo in 2019 but they divorced the following year.

She was the first black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in the field of Comedy Series. In the year 2014 she had been ranked in Variety among their 10 comedy stars to watch.

Lena Waithe (born May 17, 1984) is an American screenwriter, producer, and actress. She starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series Master of None (2015–2017). She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the show’s “Thanksgiving” episode, which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother.

Lena Waithe Net Worth

Lena is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lena Waithe's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

The college she attended was Columbia College Chicago in 2006. She wrote the short story Save Me, which proved to be her first writing credit.

Net Worth	$5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Screenwriter
Cars	Not Available
House	Living in own house.

Waithe has described her family as “lazy Christians” and said in 2018, “I’m a huge believer in God, and Jesus Christ, and that God made me and all those things. And I try to just be a good person. I think that is the base of my religion, is to be good, is to be honest.”

Waithe is also the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present), Boomerang (2019–present), and Twenties (2020–present). She appeared in Steven Spielberg’s 2018 adventure film Ready Player One, and in 2019 wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim. In 2020, she starred in a recurring role on the HBO series Westworld.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2017, Waithe and Ansari won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the season 2 episode “Thanksgiving”. She became the first Black-American woman to win an Emmy in that category. Waithe described the episode as based on her coming out experience as a lesbian. During her Emmy speech, she sent a special message to her LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) family discussing how “The things that make us different—those are our superpowers.” She ended her speech by recognizing her journey as a Black woman saying “Thank you for embracing a little Indian boy from South Carolina and a little queer black girl from the South Side of Chicago.” Waithe also developed an autobiographical drama series called The Chi. Out Magazine named Waithe the Out100: Artist of the Year on November 8, 2017.

Who is Lena Waithe Dating?

According to our records, Lena Waithe is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Lena Waithe’s is not dating anyone.

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Waithe wrote and produced the road trip/crime film Queen & Slim, starring Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya, and directed by Melina Matsoukas. It was released on November 27, 2019, by Universal Pictures.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Lena Waithe height 5 ft 7 in Lena weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Height	5 ft 7 in
Weight	Not Known
Body Measurements	Under Review
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In 2014, Variety named Waithe as one of its “10 Comedians to Watch”. In August 2015, Showtime network commissioned a pilot for an upcoming series, The Chi, written by Waithe and produced by Common, which tells a young urban Black-American man’s coming-of-age story. As the show’s creator, Waithe’s goal was to bring her experience growing up on the South Side and experiencing its diversity to craft a story that paints a more nuanced portrait of her hometown than is typically shown. Similarly, Waithe continues to extend her influence to support the Black-American community in the entertainment industry through her role as co-chair of the Committee of Black Writers at the Writers Guild. Waithe was cast in the Netflix series Master of None after meeting creator and lead actor Aziz Ansari who, with Alan Yang, had originally written Denise as a straight, white woman with the potential, according to Waithe, to evolve into one of the main character’s love interests: “For some reason, [casting director] Allison Jones thought about me for it, a black gay woman.” Ansari and Yang rewrote the script to make the character more like Waithe: “All of us actors play heightened versions of ourselves.” She said, “I don’t know if we’ve seen a sly, harem pants-wearing, cool Topshop sweatshirt-wearing, snapback hat-rocking lesbian on TV.” She also said, “I know how many women I see out in the world who are very much like myself. We exist. To me, the visibility of it was what was going to be so important and so exciting.”

Waithe is a lesbian. She became engaged in 2017 to her long-time girlfriend Alana Mayo, a content executive; the couple married in 2019 in San Francisco. On January 23, 2020, Waithe and Mayo announced that they had separated after two months of marriage.

Facts & Trivia

Lena Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lena Waithe celebrates birthday on May 17 of every year.

Who is Lena Waithe partner?

Personal life. Waithe is a masculine-presenting lesbian. She became engaged in 2017 to Alana Mayo, a content executive. They married in 2019 in San Francisco.

What are Lena Waithe pronouns?

Lena Waithe on Instagram: “My pronouns are She & Her. #happyinternationalwomensday 📸: @gizellehernandez”

What movies did Lena Waithe write?

Films written

Did Lena Waithe go to college?

Education

Who is Alana Mayo dating now?

About two months ago, Lena Waithe revealed that she and her longtime partner Alana Mayo had secretly married in August.

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