Kenan Thompson Biography
Kenan Thompson is an American comedian and actor who has been a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the show’s longest-tenured cast member. He was also the first regular cast member born after the show debuted in 1975. Aside from SNL, Thompson appeared on NBC’s sitcom Kenan from 2021 to 2022.
How old is Kenan Thompson? – Age
He is 45 years old as of 10 May 2023. He was born in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Kenan Thompson Family – Education
His parents are Fletcher and Elizabeth Ann Thompson. He has two siblings, one older brother and one younger sister. His family relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, when he was nine months old. Thompson was five years old when his mother enrolled him in acting classes.
Kenan Thompson Wife
Thompson married the model Christina Evangeline on November 11, 2011. They have two children, born in June 2014 and August 2018. On April 7, 2022, it was revealed that the two had been separated for more than a year and were co-parenting their daughters. Thompson’s official divorce filing was announced on June 15, 2022.
Kenan Thompson Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Kenan Thompson Kenan & Kel
He played Kenan Rockmore on Nickelodeon’s Kenan & Kel from 1996 to 2000, largely while also working on All That. The comedy is set in Chicago and follows mischievous Kenan Rockmore and his happy-go-lucky best pal Kel Kimble as they get entangled in zany escapades on a variety of misadventures. The sitcom was one of three spin-offs from All That, where Thompson and Mitchell had previously co-starred for several years.
The sitcom focuses on Kenan’s family, which includes his father Roger, mother Sheryl, and younger sister Kyra. The episode also features Kenan’s employer, Chris Potter. Kenan & Kel features a number of guest stars, including game show host/radio disc jockey Bob Eubanks, basketball player Ron Harper, and singer Britney Spears.
Kenan Thompson Saturday Night Live
Thompson got back to draw parody when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2003, turning into the show’s originally projected part brought into the world after its 1975 debut. Thompson said he had sent a few tryout tapes to SNL, which excused him as looking excessively youthful; he said “it two or three years of that”. Thompson said that he dreaded his expansion to the cast would be a “damage” to the show. Thompson was an included player until 2005 (crossing the 29th and 30th seasons) and was elevated to repertory player toward the start of season 31 (the 2005-2006 season).
In 2013, he started declining to depict people of color characters on the show and requested SNL employ people of color all things considered. Thompson has been a cast part on SNL for 21 seasons, breaking the record for the longest-tenured cast part in the show’s set of experiences recently held by Darrell Hammond, who was on the show for a considerable length of time. Thompson turned into the most senior cast part in the final part of the 2013-14 season, following the takeoff of Seth Meyers. He is additionally the longest-serving African-American cast part, awe-inspiring Tim Knolls, who remained on the show for ten seasons. Thompson likewise holds the record for most VIP impressions performed on the show, performing 139, beating Hammond’s past record of 107. Albeit almost immediately he intended to remain on the show until something different went along, by 2019 he noticed that SNL was his “eternity plan”
Thompson has been assigned for five Early evening Emmys for his work on SNL, winning once. He has threefold been selected for Remarkable Supporting Entertainer in a Satire Series, in 2018, 2020 and 2021. For co-composing the tune “Last Christmas”, in 2017 he was designated for Remarkable Unique Music and Verses, an honor he then, at that point, won in 2018 for the verses to “Return Barack” (alongside Chris Redd and Will Stephen).
In 2014, SNL head author Brian H. Exhaust noticed that basically putting “KENAN Responds” would get a content more chuckles, further explaining, “Put him in your sketch some place, anyplace, and your sketch will improve. Since Kenan knows how to take conventional lines and make them entertaining, and take amusing lines and make them exceptional.” Correspondingly, Lorne Michaels in a 2019 article alluded to Thompson as “the individual I most depend on in the cast”. Vulture alluded to him as the “likely successor” to Phil Hartman, both being “the paste” of their particular projects.
Thompson’s superstar impacts on SNL incorporate Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, Charles Barkley, David Ortiz, O. J. Simpson, and Steve Harvey. He has acted in north of 1,500 portrayals, raising a ruckus around town during the Walk 5, 2022, episode facilitated by Oscar Isaac. In remembrance of his twentieth commemoration on the show, Thompson got a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Distinction on August 11, 2022. It was set close to Lorne Michaels’ star.
Kenan Thompson Movies
♦ 2023 – Trolls Band Together
♦ 2023 – Good Burger 2
♦ 2022 – Bros
♦ 2021 – Clifford the Big Red Dog
♦ 2021 – Home Sweet Home Alone
♦ 2020 – Trolls World Tour
♦ 2020 – Hubie Halloween
♦ 2019 – Wonder Park
♦ 2019 – Playmobil: The Movie
♦ 2019 – Dads
♦ 2018 – The Grinch
♦ 2017 – Going in Style
♦ 2016 – Rock Dog
♦ 2016 – Brother Nature
♦ 2014 – They Came Together
Kenan Thompson TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Chucky
♦ 2022 – Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
♦ 2022 – The Boys Presents: Diabolical
♦ 2022 – The Kids in the Hall
♦ 2022 – That Damn Michael Che
♦ 2022 – Archer
♦ 2022 – 74th Primetime Emmy Awards
♦ 2022 – 48th People’s Choice Awards
♦ 2021–22 – Kenan
♦ 2021 – 2021 Kids’ Choice Awards
♦ 2021 – Trolls: Holiday in Harmony
♦ 2021 – 47th People’s Choice Awards
♦ 2021 – Jonas Brothers Family Roast
♦ 2021 – Bless the Harts
♦ 2020–22 – Trolls: TrollsTopia
♦ 2020 – America’s Got Talent
♦ 2019 – The Masked Singer