Wayne Brady

Wayne Brady

Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American actor, singer, comedian, producer, game show host, television personality and presenter, who is a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? He was the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show, the original host of Fox's Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and has hosted Let's Make a Deal since its 2009 revival. Brady also performed in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots on Broadway as Simon—who is also drag queen Lola—from November 2015 to March 2016, and as James Stinson on the American TV series How I Met Your Mother. Brady has received 16 Emmy Award nominations in total, winning his first for his work on Whose Line? in 2003, and two more in the space of the next year for his talk show The Wayne Brady Show. All of his subsequent Emmy nominations were for his work on Let's Make a Deal, winning two further awards. He was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009 for "Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance', for his cover of the Sam Cooke song "A Change Is Gonna Come".

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