Will Forte
Born June 17, 1970 (Age: 55)
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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.
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.
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Filmography
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 54
Strays
2023
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as Doug
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Age: 53
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023
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as Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
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Age: 53
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2022
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as Ben Scotti
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Age: 52
Studio 666
2022
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as Darren Sandelbaum
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Age: 51
Scoob!
2020
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as Shaggy Rogers (voice)
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Age: 50
Good Boys
2019
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as Max's Dad
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Age: 49
Booksmart
2019
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as Doug
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Age: 48
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
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as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
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Age: 48
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
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as Bagpipe Player
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Age: 45
Keanu
2016
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as Hulka
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Age: 45
Don Verdean
2015
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as Pastor Fontaine
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Age: 45
She's Funny That Way
2015
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as Joshua Fleet
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Age: 44
Horrible Bosses 2
2014
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as Derelict (uncredited)
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Age: 44
22 Jump Street
2014
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as 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 43
The Lego Movie
2014
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as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
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Age: 43
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013
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as Chester V (voice)
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Age: 43
Nebraska
2013
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as David Grant
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Age: 43
Grown Ups 2
2013
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as Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
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Age: 43
The Watch
2012
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as Sergeant Bressman
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Age: 42
That's My Boy
2012
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as Phil
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Age: 41
Rock of Ages
2012
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as Mitch Miley
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Age: 41
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
2012
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as Allan Bishopman
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Age: 41
No Image
Audio Tour
2011
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as
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Age: 40
MacGruber
2010
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as MacGruber
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Age: 39
The Slammin' Salmon
2009
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as Horace the Lone Diner
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Age: 39
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009
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as Subject #72
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Age: 39
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2009
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as Joe Towne (voice)
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Age: 39
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
2009
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as Various (archive footage)
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Age: 38
Fanboys
2009
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as THX Security Guard #4
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Age: 38
Baby Mama
2008
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as Scott
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Age: 37
Beerfest
2006
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as Otto
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Age: 36
Around the World in 80 Days
2004
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as Young Bobby
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Age: 33