Will Forte
Acting
- Born:
- 1970-06-17
- Place of birth:
- 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
The Breadwinner
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
Sunny Nights
Downey Wrote That
Haunted Hotel
Haunted Hotel
The Four Seasons
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Win or Lose
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Kinda Pregnant
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
An SNL Thanksgiving
Will & Harper
Sausage Party: Foodtopia
Thelma the Unicorn
Bodkin
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Krapopolis
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Strays
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Clone High
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
That '90s Show
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Studio 666
The Afterparty
MacGruber
America: The Motion Picture
Sweet Tooth
HouseBroken
Drunk Bus
The Great North
Scoob!
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
The Willoughbys
Dwell
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Flipped
The Laundromat
Extra Ordinary
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Good Boys
The Boys
Booksmart
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Alien News Desk
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Shivering Truth
Craig of the Creek
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Somebody Feed Phil
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
Future Man
No Activity
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?
Tour de Pharmacy
The Gong Show
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Keanu
The Ridiculous 6
Don Verdean
Moonbeam City
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
7 Days in Hell
Staten Island Summer
She's Funny That Way
Hot Ones
A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
The Last Man on Earth
An SNL Valentine
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
Apartment Troubles
Sock or Hat?
Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops
22 Jump Street
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Lego Movie
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Run & Jump
Rick and Morty
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Nebraska
Life of Crime
Grown Ups 2
Drunk History
Wampler's Ascent
Coffin Dodgers
Studio C
The Watch
Gravity Falls
That's My Boy
Rock of Ages
Comedy Bang! Bang!
The Immigrant
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Lab Rats
Allen Gregory
Up All Night
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
Bob's Burgers
Audio Tour
Conan
The Women of SNL
MacGruber
Skott & Behr
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
The Slammin' Salmon
The League
The Cleveland Show
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Sit Down Shut Up
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Parks and Recreation
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Fanboys
Young Person's Guide to History
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
The Life & Times of Tim
Baby Mama
The Brothers Solomon
Flight of the Conchords
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
30 Rock
Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes
Beerfest
Laser Cats!
Campus Ladies
How I Met Your Mother
American Dad!
Drawn Together
Around the World in 80 Days
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Clone High
Ghost World
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Raw
The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
Synergy Systems
Goblin
Centrefield