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
- TV star actress Lena Waithe, 39, was out of town when the burglary occurred
- The crime was discovered by Waithe’s staffer, who found the house door unlocked
- Waithe is best known for playing Denise in the Netflix comedy Master of None
Actress and TV writer Lena Waithe lost $200,000 worth of jewelry to brazen burglars who broke into her West Hollywood mansion through a window.
The 39-year-old comedian and writer was out of town when a group of thieves broke a window and slipped inside. TMZ.
Law enforcement sources told the store that the robbers took $200,000 worth of jewelry during the brazen burglary.
The crime was discovered by a member of Waithe’s staff, who arrived at the house the next day and found the front door unlocked.
The actress purchased her six-bedroom, eight-bathroom Studio City home in 2021 for $6.4 million.
Actress and comedian Lena Waithe lost $200,000 worth of jewelry to brazen thieves who smashed a window in her West Hollywood mansion while she was out of town
The 39-year-old is best known as Denise in 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 that the crime was discovered by a member of Waithe’s staff, who found the front door unlocked the next day.
The sprawling mansion is just 700 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.
She knew as a child that she wanted to write for television and was encouraged to do so by her single mother and grandmother, Waithe told Vogue in 2015.
After moving to Los Angeles, she got a job as an assistant to the executive producer of Girlfriends, a sitcom centering on a group of black women friends.
Waithe later became a writer for the Fox television series Bones, a writer for the Nickelodeon sitcom How to Rock, and a producer of the film Dear White People.
She was named one of Varsity’s ’10 Comedians to Watch’ in 2018.
In August 2015, Showtime commissioned 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 revolves around the coming-of-age story of a young black man in the title city.
Waithe knew from an early age that she wanted to write for television and wrote and produced for several shows before Showtime commissioned a pilot for The Chi in August 2015.
She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was included on 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 herself.
“All of us actors play a heightened version 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 coming out experience as a lesbian.
She thanked the audience for “embracing a little Indian boy from South Carolina and a little queer black girl from the South Side of Chicago.”
The 39-year-old was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was on Fast Company’s Queer 50 list in both 2021 and 2022.