Wanda Sykes was born on seventh March 1964, and she is a prominent American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She first came to recognition for being in The Chris Rock Show, and she acquired an Emmy Primetime award for it in 1999. She was named one of the twenty-five finniest people in America in 2004 by Entertainment Weekly. She is prominent for her roles in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Adventures of Old Christine, and Black-ish. She has also been in a Netflix series in 2021 named Upshaw’s.

Early Life

Sykes is originally from Virginia, and she made a shift to Maryland when she was studying in third grade. Her mother was a banker named Marion Louise, and her father was an employee at the Pentagon and was a former US Army colonel. Her family history was part of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Junior, a PBS genealogy episode of 2012. She has made efforts to trace her ancestry to a court case of Elizabeth Banks in 1683, a free white woman who gave birth to Mary Banks, a biracial child with an indentured servant. Mary was fathered by a slave and later acquired the status of freedom from her mother. According to Ira Berlin, a historian and American slavery history specialist, Wanda’s ancestry are unique and only possible to 17th-century history. She attended a high school in Maryland named Arundel High School, and she has done university study at Hampton University. She has acquired a marketing degree B.Sc. and was an Alpha Kappa Alpha member. Her first task was in the National Security Agency as a contracting specialist, and she held that position for over five years.

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Career Beginning

She was not fully satisfied with her NSA roles, so she started doing stand-up comedy in Washington DC from the Coors Super Light Talent Showcase in 1987, and it was her foremost performance in front of an audience. She started mastering her skills by practicing act venues while still working for the NSA. She decided to make a shift to NYC, and she quit her NSA employment for that. One of her most original television appearances was in Def Comedy Jam from Russell Simmons, released in the 1990s. She was sharing her stage space with JB Smoove, Adele Givens, Bernie Mac, DL Hughley, and Bill Bellamy. She released a book named Polyrhythms while she was employed with the publishing house of Hal Leonard.

Personal Life

Wanda was married to Dave Hall, a record producer from 1991 till 1998, and she then came out as lesbian publically while attending a rally for same-sex marriage. She then married a French woman named Alex Niedbalski, and they met in 2006. And they have one son and daughter together named Lucas and Olivia. She also had a small-scale stage zero breast cancer, and she went public about it in the Ellen DeGeneres Show. She was also shocked when the Californian state passed the proposition eight law.

Net Worth

The current approximate net worth of Wanda Skyes is 10 million USD.