Lena Waithe is an American screenwriter, producer, and actress. She starred in the comedy-drama Master of None. She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the 's "Thanksgiving" , which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother.
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