Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Comedy Central’s sketch series Key & Peele. He spent six seasons as a cast member on Mad TV and has made guest appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? on The CW. Key has had supporting roles in several films, including Pitch Perfect 2 and Don’t Think Twice.
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Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Comedy Central’s sketch series Key & Peele. He spent six seasons as a cast member on Mad TV and has made guest appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? on The CW. Key has had supporting roles in several films, including Pitch Perfect 2 and Don’t Think Twice. He has provided voice-work for The Lego Movie, Hotel Transylvania 2, Storks, The Angry Birds Movie and Toy Story 4. In 2017, Key made his Broadway debut in Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower. Key and Peele produced and starred in the 2016 action-comedy film Keanu. He appeared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Luther, President Barack Obama’s Anger Translator, one of Key &Peele’s characters. He also hosted the U.S. version of The Planet’s Funniest Animals on Animal Planet from 2005 until 2008, and has hosted Game On! on CBS since 2020.
He was introduced by President Obama at the 2015 White House correspondents’ dinner as Luther. He is the most prominent male character on Netflix comedy Friends from Friends, a group about a group of college friends. Key is married to comedian and writer/producer/actor/director/actor Michelle Rounds. His son is the son of black father Leroy McDuffie and white mother Carrie Herr. His adoptive parents were also a black man and a white woman. He attended the University of Detroit Mercy as an undergraduate, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater in 1993, followed by a Master of Fine arts in theater at Pennsylvania State University in 1996. In 2004, Key joined the cast of Mad TV midway into the ninth season. His most famous characters are \”Coach Hines\”, a high school sports coach who frequently disrupts and threatens students and faculty members.
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