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Master of None actress Lena Waithe is burglarized as brazen thieves make off with $200k in jewelry after smashing in through window of her $6.4M LA mansion<!-- wp:html --><div> <p><span class="mol-style-bold">Television star actress Lena Waithe, 39, was out of town when the robbery occurred.</span><br /> <span class="mol-style-bold">The crime was discovered by Waithe staff, who found the door to the house open.</span><br /> <span class="mol-style-bold">Waithe is best known for playing Denise in the Netflix comedy Master of None.</span></p> <p class="author-section byline-plain">By Mackenzie Tatananni for Dailymail.Com </p> <p class="byline-section"><span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-published"> <span class="article-timestamp-label">Published:</span> 22:27 EST, January 14, 2024 </span> | <span class="article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated"> <span class="article-timestamp-label">Updated:</span> 22:58 EST, January 14, 2024 </span> </p> <p> <!-- ad: https://mads.dailymail.co.uk/v8/us/news/none/article/other/para_top.html --> <!-- CWV --><!--(if !IE)>>--> <!-- <!--(if IE)>--></p> <p> <!--(if !IE)>>--> <!--<!--(if IE)>--></p> <p> <!--(if !IE)>>--> <!--<!--(if gte IE 8)>>--> <!-- <!--(if IE 8)>--></p> <p> <!--(if IE 9)>--></p> <p> <!--(if IE)>--></p> <p> <!--(if !IE)> --> <!--</p> <p> <!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.20.3. 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It focuses on the coming-of-age story of a young black man in the titular city.</p> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Waithe knew from a young age that she wanted to write for television and wrote and produced several shows before Showtime ordered a pilot for The Chi in August 2015.</p> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was named to Fast Company’s Queer 50 list in both 2021 and 2022.</p> </div> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The same year, the comedian was cast in Master of None after meeting creator and lead actor Aziz Ansari.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Ansari and co-creator Alan Yang rewrote the script to make Waithe’s character, Denise, more like her.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">“All of us actors play enhanced versions of ourselves,” the actress later told Vogue.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">In 2017, Waithe and Ansari won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, making Waithe the first African-American woman to win an Emmy in that category.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The episode, Waithe explained in her acceptance speech, was based on her experience of coming out as a lesbian.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">He thanked the audience for “embracing an Indian boy from South Carolina and a queer Black girl from the South Side of Chicago.”</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The 39-year-old was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2018 by Time magazine and was named to Fast Company’s Queer 50 list in both 2021 and 2022.</p> </div> <p> <!-- ad: https://mads.dailymail.co.uk/v8/us/news/none/article/other/inread_player.html --></p> <div class="column-content cleared"> <div class="shareArticles"> <h3 class="social-links-title">Share or comment on this article: Master of None actress Lena Waithe is robbed as brazen thieves make off with $200,000 in jewelry after breaking the window of her $6.4 million Los Angeles mansion.</h3> </div> </div> </div><!-- /wp:html -->

Television star actress Lena Waithe, 39, was out of town when the robbery occurred.
The crime was discovered by Waithe staff, who found the door to the house open.
Waithe is best known for playing Denise in the Netflix comedy Master of None.

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Actress and television writer Lena Waithe lost $200,000 worth of jewelry to brazen thieves who broke into a window at her West Hollywood mansion.

The 39-year-old comedian and writer was out of town when a group of thieves broke a window and sneaked inside, according to reports. TMZ.

Police sources told the outlet that the thieves stole $200,000 worth of jewelry during the brazen robbery.

The crime was discovered by a member of Waithe’s staff, who arrived at the house the next day and found the front door open.

The actress purchased her six-bedroom, eight-bathroom Studio City home for $6.4 million in 2021.

Actress and comedian Lena Waithe lost $200,000 in jewelry to brazen thieves who smashed a window at her West Hollywood mansion while she was out of town.

The 39-year-old is best known as Denise on the Netflix series Master of None and as the creator of The Chi, a drama based on her own upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ the crime was discovered by a member of Waithe’s staff, who found the front door open the next day.

The sprawling mansion is just under 7,000 square feet and features an outdoor kitchen, a backyard sauna, and an in-ground pool.

Waithe is best known as Denise from the Netflix comedy Master of None and creator of The Chi, a drama series influenced by her upbringing in Chicago, Illinois.

Since she was a child, she knew she wanted to write for television and her single mother and grandmother encouraged her to do so, Waithe told Vogue in 2015.

After moving to Los Angeles, she landed a job as assistant to the executive producer of Girlfriends, a comedy centered on a group of black women friends.

Waithe later became a writer for the Fox television series Bones, a writer for the Nickelodeon comedy How to Rock, and a producer for the film Dear White People.

She was named one of Varsity’s ’10 Comedians to Watch’ in 2018.

In August 2015, Showtime ordered a pilot for The Chi, written by Waithe and produced by rapper Common.

Waithe wanted the series to reflect her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side. It focuses on the coming-of-age story of a young black man in the titular city.

Waithe knew from a young age that she wanted to write for television and wrote and produced several shows before Showtime ordered a pilot for The Chi in August 2015.

She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was named to Fast Company’s Queer 50 list in both 2021 and 2022.

The same year, the comedian was cast in Master of None after meeting creator and lead actor Aziz Ansari.

Ansari and co-creator Alan Yang rewrote the script to make Waithe’s character, Denise, more like her.

“All of us actors play enhanced versions of ourselves,” the actress later told Vogue.

In 2017, Waithe and Ansari won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, making Waithe the first African-American woman to win an Emmy in that category.

The episode, Waithe explained in her acceptance speech, was based on her experience of coming out as a lesbian.

He thanked the audience for “embracing an Indian boy from South Carolina and a queer Black girl from the South Side of Chicago.”

The 39-year-old was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2018 by Time magazine and was named to Fast Company’s Queer 50 list in both 2021 and 2022.

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