Early life and career

Thompson was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Fletcher and Elizabeth Ann Thompson. He has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. He began acting at age 15, appearing in the school play The Gingerbread Duck. He auditioned for a theatre company The Youth Ensemble of Atlanta (YEA). One of his earliest roles was as an entertainment reporter for CNN's "Real News for Kids", and he would go on to star in All That, and Kenan & Kel. While Kenan attended Tri-Cities High School, a Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School in East Point, Georgia, he began filming his first movie, D2: The Mighty Ducks.

Film and television career

Kenan has starred in several films including Good Burger, based on the All That sketch of the same name, and Fat Albert, in which he played the title character. He has also had supporting roles in the movies Heavyweights, D2: The Mighty Ducks, D3: The Mighty Ducks, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, My Boss's Daughter, and Snakes on a Plane. Thompson had a recurring role on The Steve Harvey Show as Junior, with co-star Kel Mitchell.

In 2009, Thompson was a regular voice actor in the Fox cartoon series, Sit Down, Shut Up, portraying Sue Sezno, who, as evidenced by her last name, always says no. The series premiered on April 19, 2009, but was canceled after only four episodes due to low ratings and less than favorable reviews. Thompson provided the voice for the LeBron James puppet in Nike's MVP "Most Valuable Puppets" commercials, which were produced to be shown throughout the 2009 NBA Playoffs. Thompson also guest starred on the USA Network TV show Psych, Season 4's "High Top Fade Out" (episode 7). He played an estranged college singing buddy of the character Gus. In 2011 he briefly returned to Nickelodeon, as he guest starred in "iParty with Victorious", a crossover episode of TV sitcoms "iCarly" and "Victorious". Thompson is the current host of TeenNick's 1990's programming block, The '90s Are All That.

In 2015, Fandango announced that Thompson would play their brand character, fictional character Miles Mouvay. Thompson will play Mouvay in 18 videos, eight 30-second commercials, and a few comedic skits.

On September 23, 2015, Thompson appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon " alongside former "All That" co-star Kel Mitchell in which they reprised their iconic "Good Burger" roles as "Ed" and "Lester Oakes, Construction Worker".

Saturday Night Live

Thompson returned to sketch comedy when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2003, becoming the first SNL cast member to be born after SNL's premiere in 1975 and the first SNL cast member to have been a cast member on children's comedy shows (the Nickelodeon sketch show All That and the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan and Kel). Kel Mitchell, his comedy partner and close friend, also auditioned to be on SNL, but only Thompson was hired. Thompson was a featured player until 2005 (spanning the 29th and 30th seasons), and was promoted to repertory player at the beginning of season 31 (the 2005-2006 season).

Thompson has been a cast member on SNL for thirteen seasons, breaking the record for the longest-serving African-American cast member previously held by Tim Meadows, who stayed on the show for ten seasons. Thompson is now the senior cast member on the show, after Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers left the show. He is also the third-oldest current cast member after Bobby Moynihan (born 1977) and Leslie Jones (born 1967). Thompson also holds the record for most celebrity impressions performed on the show, performing 122, beating Darrell Hammond's previous record of 107.

Personal life

Thompson married model Christina Evangeline on November 11, 2011. Together, they have one child, a daughter, born in 2014.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1994	D2: The Mighty Ducks	Russ Tyler
1995	Heavyweights	Roy
1996	D3: The Mighty Ducks	Russ Tyler
1997	Good Burger	Dexter Reed
2000	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Lewis
2002	Big Fat Liar	Party Guest
	The Master of Disguise	Guy on Computer
2003	Love Don't Cost a Thing	Walter Colley
	My Boss's Daughter	Hans
2004	Barbershop 2: Back in Business	Kenard
	Fat Albert	Fat Albert
2006	Snakes on a Plane	Troy
2008	Space Chimps	Ringmaster (voice)
	Wieners	Wyatt
2009	Stan Helsing	Teddy
2011	The Smurfs	Greedy Smurf (voice)
2012	The Magic of Belle Isle	Henry
2013	The Smurfs 2	Greedy Smurf (voice)
2014	They Came Together	Teddy
	Opposite Sex	Mitch
2016	Rock Dog	Riff

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994-99	All That	Various Roles	Main role, 102 episodes
1996-98	The Steve Harvey Show	Junior	4 episodes
1996-2001	Kenan & Kel	Kenan Rockmore	Main role, 68 episodes
1997	Sister, Sister	Trevor	Episode: "Inherit the Twin"
1998	Sabrina, the Teenage Witch	Himself	Episode: "Sabrina's Choice"
1999	The Amanda Show	Himself	Episode: "1.1"
	Cousin Skeeter	Kenan Rockmore	2 episodes
2001	Committed	Bob the Dog	13 episodes
2000	Two Heads Are Better Than None	Kenan Rockmore	Kenan & Kel TV movie
	The Parkers	Damon	Episode: "Trading Places"
2001	Felicity	DeForrest Ingram	4 episodes
2002	Off Centre	MC French	2 episodes
2003	Clifford the Big Red Dog	Hamburger	Episode: "Food for Thought/Friends Forever"
2003-present	Saturday Night Live	Various roles	Main role
2005	Wild 'N Out	Himself	Episode: "Kenan Thompson"
2006	Rugrats	Mirror	Episode: "Tales from the Crib: Snow White"
2007	Crank Yankers	Mark Thomas	Episode: "4.1"
2008	The Mighty B!	Rocky Rhodes	3 episodes
2009	Psych	Joon	Episode: "High Top Fade Out"
	Sit Down, Shut Up	Sue Sezno	13 episodes
2011	iCarly	Himself	Crossover episode: iParty with Victorious
	Victorious
	The '90s Are All That	Host
2013	Martha Speaks	Stanley	Episode: "Stanley Saves The Day/Milo Goes For Gold"
2013-15	The Awesomes	Austin "Impresario" Sullivan	Voice
2015	The Amazing World of Gumball	Old/Future Darwin	Guest voice, Episode: "The Time"
	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Lester Oakes	Episode: "James Spader/Andrew Rannells/Brian Regan
	Nature Cat	Ronald	Voice
2016	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Roland	Guest role, Episode: "Kimmy Drives a Car!"

Year	Title	Notes
2004	Good Times	Comedy album

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