American stand-up comedian and actor Cedric Antonio Kyles, better known by his stage name Cedric the Entertainer, was born on April 24, 1964.
He hosted Def Comedy Jam in 1995 and BET’s ComicView from 1993 to 1994. He is best known for playing Eddie Walker in Barbershop and co-starring with Steve Harvey on the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show as one of the Original Kings of Comedy.
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From 2013 to 2014, he hosted the daytime version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s 12th season, and from 2012 to 2016, he starred in the TV Land original series The Soul Man.
Additionally, he has provided narration for Ice Age, the Madagascar films, Charlotte’s Web, and Planes and Planes: Rescue and Fire. He appears on the CBS sitcom The Neighborhood as a star. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
He was the son of Kittrell Kyles, an employee of The Missouri Pacific Railroad, and Rosetta (née Boyce), a schoolteacher.
Cedric moved to Berkeley, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis, after graduating from junior high school. He was raised in Caruthersville, Missouri. He has a high school diploma from Berkeley.
He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in communications. Professor of communications at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, Sharita Kyles Wilson is his younger sister.
