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Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, actress, and voice artist. She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on ''The Chris Rock Show''. In 2004, ''Entertainment Weekly'' named Sykes as one of the 25 funniest people in America.〔 〕 She is well known for her role as Barbara Baran 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, until it was cancelled in April 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wanda Sykes Returns To Fox )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Wanda Sykes Show on Fox )〕 Sykes has also had a successful career in film, appearing in ''Monster-in-Law'', ''My Super Ex-Girlfriend'', ''Evan Almighty'', and ''License to Wed'', and voiced characters in ''Over the Hedge'', ''Barnyard'', ''Brother Bear 2'', ''Rio'', and ''Ice Age: Continental Drift''. ==Early life== Sykes was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in the Washington, D.C., area. Her mother, Marion Louise (née Peoples), worked as a banker, and her father, Harry Ellsworth Sykes, was a US Army colonel employed at the Pentagon. Sykes attended Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland, and went on to graduate from Hampton University〔 where she earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. After college, her first job was as a contracting specialist at the National Security Agency (NSA),〔 where she worked for five years. Sykes' family history was researched for an episode of the 2012 PBS genealogy program ''Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.'' Her ancestry was traced back to a 1683 court case involving her paternal ninth great-grandmother Elizabeth Banks, a free white woman and indentured servant, who gave birth to a biracial child, Mary Banks, fathered by a slave, who inherited her mother's free status. According to historian Ira Berlin, a specialist in the history of American slavery, the Sykes family history is "the only such case that I know of in which it is possible to trace a black family rooted in freedom from the late 17th century to the present." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wanda Sykes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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