Kim N Wayans is an American actress comedian producer writer and director Wayans is the sister of Keenen Ivory Damon Sr Marlon Shawn and Nadia Wayans She is best known for her numerous roles on the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color and Tonia Harris on In the House In film she appeared in Im Gonna Git You Sucka and Dont Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood both directed by her brother Keenen and had a starring role in the art film Talking About Sex and later costarred in Juwanna Mann as Latisha Jansen She starred with her siblings on the Fox variety show In Living Color and A Low Down Dirty Shame Her other television work includes regular appearances on the sitcom In the House with LL Cool J and a recurring role on A Different World Recently she has worked as a story editor on her brother Damons sitcom My Wife and Kids In 2008 she co wrote a series of childrens books with her husband Kevin Knotts entitled Amy Hodgepodge about a multiracial girl adjusting to life in public school after years of homeschooling In December 2011 she got a chance to showcase her dramatic chops with a supporting role as a mother who struggles to understand her seventeenyearold daughter in Pariah She was nominated alongside co star Pernell Walker for Best Supporting Actress at the 2012 Black Reel Awards but lost to Octavia Spencer for The Help