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Will Forte

Will Forte

Acting

Born: June 17, 1970Alameda, California, USA

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

Coyote vs. Acme

Kevin Avery

2026
The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner

Keegan

2026
Downey Wrote That

Downey Wrote That

Self

2025
Kinda Pregnant

Kinda Pregnant

Josh Lewis

2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self (archive footage)

2025
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special

The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special

Self (archive footage)

2024
Will & Harper

Will & Harper

Self

2024
Thelma the Unicorn

Thelma the Unicorn

Otis (voice)

2024
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

Cyrus

2023
Strays

Strays

Doug

2023
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Gordon Lighthouse (voice)

2023
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Ben Scotti

2022
Studio 666

Studio 666

Darren Sandelbaum

2022
America: The Motion Picture

America: The Motion Picture

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

2021
Drunk Bus

Drunk Bus

Fred

2021
Scoob!

Scoob!

Shaggy Rogers (voice)

2020
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

Self

2020
The Willoughbys

The Willoughbys

Tim Willoughby (voice)

2020
Dwell

Dwell

Self Help Book Narrator

2020
The Laundromat

The Laundromat

Doomed Gringo #1

2019
Extra Ordinary

Extra Ordinary

Christian Winter

2019
Good Boys

Good Boys

Max's Dad

2019
Booksmart

Booksmart

Doug

2019
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

2019
A Futile and Stupid Gesture

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Doug Kenney

2018
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs

Self

2017
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?

Will Grello

2017
Tour de Pharmacy

Tour de Pharmacy

French Gendarme

2017
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special

Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special

Michael Fulton

2017
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Bagpipe Player

2016
Keanu

Keanu

Hulka

2016
The Ridiculous 6

The Ridiculous 6

Will Patch

2015
Don Verdean

Don Verdean

Pastor Fontaine

2015
7 Days in Hell

7 Days in Hell

Sandy Pickard

2015
Staten Island Summer

Staten Island Summer

Griffith

2015
She's Funny That Way

She's Funny That Way

Joshua Fleet

2015
A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown

A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown

Cody (voice)

2015
Horrible Bosses 2

Horrible Bosses 2

Derelict (uncredited)

2014
Apartment Troubles

Apartment Troubles

Simon

2014
Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops

Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops

Lincoln (voice)

2014
22 Jump Street

22 Jump Street

'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

2014
The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

2014
Run & Jump

Run & Jump

Ted

2014
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Chester V (voice)

2013
Nebraska

Nebraska

David Grant

2013
Life of Crime

Life of Crime

Marshall Taylor

2013
Grown Ups 2

Grown Ups 2

Male Cheerleader (uncredited)

2013
Coffin Dodgers

Coffin Dodgers

Voice

2013
The Watch

The Watch

Sergeant Bressman

2012
That's My Boy

That's My Boy

Phil

2012
Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages

Mitch Miley

2012

The Immigrant

Will

2012
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

Allan Bishopman

2012
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Glenn

2011
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10

MacGruber

2011

Audio Tour

2011
The Women of SNL

The Women of SNL

Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)

2010
MacGruber

MacGruber

MacGruber

2010
Skott & Behr

Skott & Behr

2010
Saturday Night

Saturday Night

Self

2010

Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

Self

2010
The Slammin' Salmon

The Slammin' Salmon

Horace the Lone Diner

2009
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Subject #72

2009
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Joe Towne (voice)

2009
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Various (archive footage)

2009
Fanboys

Fanboys

THX Security Guard #4

2009
Baby Mama

Baby Mama

Scott

2008
The Brothers Solomon

The Brothers Solomon

Dean Solomon

2007

Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes

Self

2006
Beerfest

Beerfest

Otto

2006
Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

Young Bobby

2004
Ghost World

Ghost World

(uncredited)

2001