Wanda Sykes
1.7Acting

Wanda Sykes

Mar 7, 1964 - Portsmouth, Virginia, USA

Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named her as one of the 25 funniest people in America.

She is well known for her role as Barb on The New Adventures of Old Christine and for her appearances on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In November 2009 The Wanda Sykes Show, her own late-night talkshow, premiered on Fox, airing Saturday nights.

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Credits

Cast

Media
Movie2006Brother Bear 2Innoko (voice)
Movie2001Pootie TangBiggie Shorty
Movie2007Evan AlmightyRita
Movie2005Monster-in-LawRuby
Movie2006My Super Ex-GirlfriendCarla Dunkirk
Movie2006Over the HedgeStella (voice)
Movie2000Nutty Professor II: The KlumpsChantal
Movie2009Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be MeHerself
Movie2006Wanda Sykes: Sick and TiredHerself
Movie2003Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!Self
Movie2006BarnyardBessy (voice)
Movie2001Down to EarthWanda
Movie2011RioChloe / Goose (voice)
Movie2023Wanda Sykes: I'm an EntertainerSelf
Movie2003Wanda Sykes: Tongue UntiedHerself
Movie2012Ice Age: Continental DriftGranny (voice)
Movie2020Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles
Movie2013The Hot FlashesFlorine Clarkston
Movie1998Tomorrow NightWanda
Movie2013The Out ListHerself
Movie2022Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
Movie2023Albert Brooks: Defending My LifeSelf
Movie2005Just for Laughs Stand Up, Vol. 1: Best of the Uptown ComicsHerself
Movie2024Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks MovieSue Nahmee
Movie2005Earth to AmericaSelf
Movie2016Ice Age: Collision CourseGranny (voice)
Movie2025UndercardCheryl 'No Mercy' Stewart
Movie2006The Adventures of Brer RabbitSister Moon (voice)
Movie2006Hammy's Boomerang AdventureStella (voice)
Movie2024Outstanding: A Comedy RevolutionSelf
Movie2006Clerks IIWife
Movie2017SnatchedRuth
MovieN/ATangles
Movie2016Wanda Sykes: What Happened… Ms. Sykes?Herself
Movie2016Bad MomsDr. Elizabeth Karl
Movie2006Back to the Well: 'Clerks II'Self / Wife
Movie2017A Bad Moms ChristmasDr. Elizabeth Karl
Movie2018Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with HatePrison Matron
Movie2020FriendsgivingFairy Gay Mother #1
Movie2019The Wedding YearJanet / Grandma
Movie2015How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will ComeGoddess
Movie2019UglyDollsWage (voice)
Movie2019Wanda Sykes: Not NormalHerself
Movie2003MTV ReloadedThe Oracle
Movie2021Breaking News in Yuba CountyRita
Movie2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"Louise Jefferson
Movie2019JexiDenice
Movie2007License to WedDoctor (uncredited)
Movie2016Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)Self (archive footage)
Movie2020Feeding America Comedy FestivalSelf
Movie2001Best of the Chris Rock Show: Volume 2
Movie2006World's Greatest Stand Up: Volume Oneself
Movie2021Roll Up Your SleevesSelf
Movie2021The One and Only Dick GregorySelf
Movie2024Underwater ProjectsNarrator
Movie2021The Upshaws - The AfterpartySelf
MovieN/ADeck the Y'alls
TV Show2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf6
TV Show1996The Daily ShowSelf4
TV Show2004Wanda Does It6
TV Show1952TodaySelf1
TV Show1997The ViewSelf4
TV Show1992The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSelf15
TV Show2012Inside ComedySelf1
TV Show1999The Early ShowSelf - Guest2
TV Show2012Finding Your RootsSelf1
TV Show2020The Holiday Movies That Made UsSelf (archive footage)1
TV Show2021The UpshawsLucretia48
TV Show2006The New Adventures of Old ChristineBarb Baran67
TV Show1998Comedy Central Presents1
TV Show1998Will & GraceCricket1
TV Show2009The Jay Leno ShowSelf2
TV Show1995MADtvSelf1
TV Show1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest4
TV Show1997The Chris Rock Show17
TV Show2003Wanda at LargeWanda Mildred Hawkins19
TV Show1997Premium BlendHost97
TV Show1997The ViewSelf - Guest2
TV Show2009Drop Dead DivaJudge Yvonne Wright1
TV Show2021Q-ForceDeb (voice)10
TV Show2001The Downer Channel6
TV Show2019A Black Lady Sketch ShowHeckler1
TV Show2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf3
TV Show2008The Wendy Williams Show1
TV Show2009The Wanda Sykes Show22
TV Show2022Alabama JacksonHarriet Tubman7
TV Show2014Last Week Tonight with John OliverSelf1
TV Show2019The Other TwoShuli Kucerac19
TV Show2017The Good FightAllegra Durado3
TV Show2013Alpha HouseSenator Rosalyn DuPeche14
TV Show2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf1
TV Show2018The ShopSelf1
TV Show2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf5
TV Show2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self7
TV Show2000Curb Your EnthusiasmWanda9
TV Show2004Miley's New Year's Eve PartySelf - Guest1
TV Show2016ChelseaSelf2
TV Show2016Ask the Storybots1
TV Show2015The Late Late Show with James CordenSelf - Guest1
TV Show2014Penn Zero: Part-Time HeroShirley B. Awesome (voice)2
TV Show2011RidiculousnessSelf1
TV Show2011Bob's BurgersSofa Queen (voice)1
TV Show2015Hot OnesSelf1
TV Show1953The OscarsSelf - Host1
TV Show2007Back at the BarnyardBessy97
TV Show2015Lip Sync BattleSelf1
TV Show2022SherriSelf - Guest4
TV Show1988LIVE with Kelly and MarkSelf - Guest1
TV Show2015Celebrity Family FeudSelf1
TV Show2014Broad CityDara3
TV Show2016Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party1
TV Show2018Summer Camp IslandEthel (voice)1
TV Show2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf1
TV Show2019Harley QuinnQueen of Fables (voice)3
TV Show2014black-ishDaphne Lido16
TV Show2018Vampirina: Ghoul Girls Rock!15
TV Show2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest3
TV Show2009RuPaul's Drag RaceSelf - Guest Judge1
TV Show2016To Tell the TruthSelf - Panelist1
TV Show2023VelmaKrista (voice)1
TV Show2024Good TimesMrs. Likeigiveashit (voice)1
TV Show2019The Kelly Clarkson ShowSelf1
TV Show2015Jay Leno's GarageSelf1
TV Show2021Star Wars: The Bad BatchPhee Genoa (voice)7
TV Show2022The Jennifer Hudson ShowSelf1
TV Show1989The SimpsonsTherapist (voice)1
TV Show1999FuturamaBev (voice)1
TV Show2020Visible: Out on TelevisionSelf5
TV Show2003Real Time with Bill MaherSelf1
TV Show2023VelmaLinda (voice)16
TV Show1996The Daily ShowSelf - Guest Host4
TV Show2017Big MouthGhost of Harriet Tubman (voice)1
TV Show2023History of the World: Part IIVarious Characters8
TV Show2019Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?Wanda Sykes (voice)1
TV Show2023Rock, Paper, ScissorsDian (voice)1
TV Show1995The Drew Carey ShowChristine Watson3
TV Show1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf1
TV Show2014BoJack HorsemanMary-Beth (voice)1
TV Show2010ConanSelf3
TV Show2006The Megan Mullally ShowSelf - Guest1
TV Show2022ChivalryJean Shrill5
TV Show2018Lie DetectorSelf1
TV Show2025Lil KevNancy (voice)10
TV Show2022GutsySelf1
TV Show2019The Kelly Clarkson ShowSelf - Guest Host1
TV Show1995Dr. Katz, Professional TherapistWanda (voice)2
TV Show2025Everybody's Live with John MulaneySelf - Comedian1
TV Show2013Hollywood Game NightSelf1

Crew

Media
Movie2009Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be MeWriterWriting
Movie2006Wanda Sykes: Sick and TiredWriterWriting
Movie2003Wanda Sykes: Tongue UntiedWriterWriting
Movie2022Ms. Pat: Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?Executive ProducerProduction
Movie2016Wanda Sykes: What Happened… Ms. Sykes?WriterWriting
Movie2024Outstanding: A Comedy RevolutionExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2023Wanda Sykes: I'm an EntertainerWriterWriting
Movie2025UndercardExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2019Wanda Sykes: Not NormalWriterWriting
Movie2019Wanda Sykes: Not NormalExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2025Cristela Alonzo: Upper ClassyExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show1997The Chris Rock ShowWriterWriting
TV Show2003Wanda at LargeWriterWriting
TV Show2018EPIX Presents Unprotected SetsExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show2020Visible: Out on TelevisionExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show2021The UpshawsExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show2023History of the World: Part IIExecutive ProducerProduction
TV Show1995Dr. Katz, Professional TherapistAdditional WritingCrew
TV Show2003Wanda at LargeCreatorCreator
TV Show2009The Wanda Sykes ShowCreatorCreator
TV Show2021The UpshawsCreatorCreator