Will Forte
- Acting
- June 17, 1970 · Alameda, California, USA
Biography
Orville Willis Forte IV (/ˈfɔːrteɪ/ FOR-tay; born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He was a cast member and writer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons from 2002 to 2010. During his time on the show, he played a recurring character that led to a feature film adaptation, MacGruber (2010), and a streaming limited series in 2021. Forte also created and starred in the sitcom The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018). He received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the series: two for acting and one for writing. After obtaining a history degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and becoming a financial broker like his father, Forte changed his career path to comedy and took classes with the improv group The Groundlings. Before joining Saturday Night Live, he worked as a writer and producer on 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show. Forte played various roles in comedy before starring in the drama film Nebraska (2013). He has provided voice work for the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films (2009–2013), My Life as a Courgette, Get Squirrely (2016), Luis & the Aliens (2018), The Willoughbys and Scoob! (2020), also voicing Eddy in Disney XD's Lab Rats, and Abraham Lincoln in Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024), The Lego Movie films (2014–2019), Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops (2014), America: The Motion Picture (2021), Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) and Sausage Party: Foodtopia (2024–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Forte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Coyote vs. Acme · Kevin Avery
- The Breadwinner · Keegan
- Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
- Sunny Nights · Martin, Executive producer
- Downey Wrote That · Self
- Haunted Hotel · Nathan (Voice)
- The Four Seasons · Jack
- Good Hang with Amy Poehler · Self
- Win or Lose · Coach Dan (Voice)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert · Self
- Kinda Pregnant · Josh Lewis
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music · Self
- The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special · Self
- An SNL Thanksgiving · (archive footage)
- Will & Harper · Self
- Sausage Party: Foodtopia · Jack (Voice)
- Thelma the Unicorn · Otis (Voice)
- Bodkin · Gilbert Power
- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off · Older Scott Pilgrim (Voice), Even Older Scott Pilgrim (Voice)
- Krapopolis · Campos (Voice)
- Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out · Cyrus
- Strays · Doug
- Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken · Gordon Lighthouse (Voice)
- Clone High · Abe Lincoln (Voice)
- Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai · Warden (Voice)
- That '90s Show · Kiefer
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story · Ben Scotti
- Studio 666 · Darren Sandelbaum
- The Afterparty · Self
- MacGruber · MacGruber, Writer
- America: The Motion Picture · Abraham Lincoln (Voice)
- Sweet Tooth · Richard Fox / Pubba
- HouseBroken · Shel (Voice)
- Drunk Bus · Fred
- The Great North · Wolf Tobin (Voice)
- Scoob! · Shaggy Rogers (Voice)
- Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics · Self
- The Willoughbys · Tim Willoughby (Voice)
- Dwell · Self Help Book Narrator
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire · Self
- Flipped · Jann Melfi
- The Laundromat · Doomed Gringo #1
- Extra Ordinary · Christian Winter
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Good Boys · Max's Dad
- The Boys · Will Forte (uncredited)
- Booksmart · Doug
- I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson · Old Man on Plane
- Alien News Desk · Drexx Drudlarr (Voice)
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part · Abraham Lincoln (Voice)
- The Shivering Truth · Voice
- Craig of the Creek · Barry (Voice)
- A Futile and Stupid Gesture · Doug Kenney
- Somebody Feed Phil · Self
- Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs · Self
- Future Man · CASSIN-E
- No Activity · Dirk (Voice)
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job? · Will Grello
- Tour de Pharmacy · French Gendarme
- The Gong Show · Self
- Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special · Michael Fulton
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping · Bagpipe Player
- Keanu · Hulka
- The Ridiculous 6 · Will Patch
- Don Verdean · Pastor Fontaine
- Moonbeam City · Red Cunningham (Voice)
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- 7 Days in Hell · Sandy Pickard
- Staten Island Summer · Griffith
- She's Funny That Way · Joshua Fleet
- Hot Ones · Self
- A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown · Cody (Voice)
- The Last Man on Earth · Phil Tandy Miller, Writer
- An SNL Valentine · (archive footage)
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil · Tyler / Hunter / Chet / Blue Helmet Kid (Voice)
- Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten · Self
- Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories · Will
- Apartment Troubles · Simon
- Sock or Hat? · Self
- Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops · Lincoln (Voice)