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Will Forte

Born 1970-06-17

📍 Alameda, 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).

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Filmography 161

The Breadwinner

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

Downey Wrote That

as Nathan (voice)

The Four Seasons

as Coach Dan (voice)

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

as Self (archive footage)

The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special

as Self (archive footage)

Sausage Party: Foodtopia

as Jack (voice)

Thelma the Unicorn

as Otis (voice)

as Gilbert Power

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

as Older Scott Pilgrim (voice)

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

as Even Older Scott Pilgrim (voice)

as Campos (voice)

Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

as Gordon Lighthouse (voice)

as Abe Lincoln (voice)

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

as Warden (voice)

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

as Darren Sandelbaum

America: The Motion Picture

as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

as Richard Fox / Pubba

as Shel (voice)

The Great North

as Wolf Tobin (voice)

as Shaggy Rogers (voice)

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

The Willoughbys

as Tim Willoughby (voice)

as Self Help Book Narrator

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

as Self - Contestant

as Doomed Gringo #1

as Christian Winter

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Will Forte (uncredited)

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

as Old Man on Plane

Alien News Desk

as Drexx Drudlarr (voice)

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

The Shivering Truth

Craig of the Creek

as Barry (voice)

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Somebody Feed Phil

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs

as Dirk (voice)

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

Tour de Pharmacy

as French Gendarme

as Self - Judge

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

as Michael Fulton

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

as Bagpipe Player

The Ridiculous 6

as Pastor Fontaine

as Red Cunningham (voice)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

as Sandy Pickard

Staten Island Summer

She's Funny That Way

as Joshua Fleet

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

as Cody (voice)

The Last Man on Earth

as Phil Tandy Miller

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

as Tyler / Hunter / Chet / Blue Helmet Kid (voice)

Horrible Bosses 2

as Derelict (uncredited)

Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten

Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories

Apartment Troubles

as Self - Contestant

Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops

as Lincoln (voice)

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

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Off Camera with Sam Jones

as Eugene Michael Piss / Pissmaster (voice)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

as Chester V (voice)

as Marshall Taylor

as Male Cheerleader (uncredited)

as Self - Special Guest

as Sergeant Bressman

as Tyler Cutebiker (voice)

Comedy Bang! Bang!

as Chet Barnsider

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

as Allan Bishopman

as Eddy / Cheddy

as Stewart Rossmyre

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

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

as Mr. Grant (voice)

as Kurt (voice)

The Women of SNL

as Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)

The Slammin' Salmon

as Horace the Lone Diner

The Cleveland Show

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

as Joe Towne (voice)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Sit Down Shut Up

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

as Various (archive footage)

Parks and Recreation

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

as THX Security Guard #4

Young Person's Guide to History

as Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman)

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday

The Life & Times of Tim

as Chipper (voice)

The Brothers Solomon

as Dean Solomon

Flight of the Conchords

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

as Pall Willeaux

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

as Dr. Reid Tamaranda

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

as Paul L'astnamé

How I Met Your Mother

as Jesus Christ (voice)

as Butt Insurance Salesman (voice)

as Charlie Greenfield (voice)

as Mayor Woodside (voice)

as Security Guard (voice)

as Convention Attendee (voice)

as Firefighter Henry Watkins (voice)

as Kirk Cameron (voice)

Around the World in 80 Days

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

as Abe Lincoln / Narrator (voice)

as (uncredited)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

as Alien (voice)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

as King Toot (voice)

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live