Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 17, 1970
Place of Birth
Alameda, California, USA
Credits
156 titles
Will Forte
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
Downey Wrote That
Self
Haunted Hotel
Nathan (voice)
The Four Seasons
Jack
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Win or Lose
Coach Dan (voice)
Kinda Pregnant
Josh Lewis
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
Self (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)
Krapopolis
Campos (voice)
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Cyrus
Strays
Doug
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Warden (voice)
Clone High
Abe Lincoln (voice)
That '90s Show
Kiefer
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Ben Scotti
Studio 666
Darren Sandelbaum
The Afterparty
Self
MacGruber
MacGruber
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 - Contestant
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
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)