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Will Forte

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Will Forte

Born June 17, 1970 in Alameda, California, USA62 films

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.

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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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22 Jump Street poster6.822 Jump Street2014Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs poster6.7Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs2009Nebraska poster7.4Nebraska2013Booksmart poster7.0Booksmart2019Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 poster6.5Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 22013Ghost World poster7.1Ghost World2001Grown Ups 2 poster6.2Grown Ups 22013Scoob! poster7.0Scoob!2020

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Coyote vs. Acme poster7.6Coyote vs. Acme2026

Filmography

62 films as actor
  1. TBASynergy SystemsNarcissus
  2. TBAGoblin
  3. 2026Coyote vs. AcmeKevin Avery
  4. 2026The BreadwinnerKeegan
  5. 2025Kinda PregnantJosh Lewis
  6. 2024Thelma the UnicornOtis (voice)
  7. 2023Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left OutCyrus
  8. 2023StraysDoug
  9. 2023Ruby Gillman, Teenage KrakenGordon Lighthouse (voice)
  10. 2022Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryBen Scotti
  11. 2022Studio 666Darren Sandelbaum
  12. 2021America: The Motion PictureAbraham Lincoln (voice)
  13. 2021Drunk BusFred
  14. 2020Scoob!Shaggy Rogers (voice)
  15. 2020The WilloughbysTim Willoughby (voice)
  16. 2019The LaundromatDoomed Gringo #1
  17. 2019Extra OrdinaryChristian Winter
  18. 2019Good BoysMax's Dad
  19. 2019BooksmartDoug
  20. 2019The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartAbraham Lincoln (voice)
  21. 2018A Futile and Stupid GestureDoug Kenney
  22. 2017Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?Will Grello
  23. 2017Tour de PharmacyFrench Gendarme
  24. 2017Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day SpecialMichael Fulton
  25. 2016Popstar: Never Stop Never StoppingBagpipe Player
  26. 2016KeanuHulka
  27. 2015The Ridiculous 6Will Patch
  28. 2015Don VerdeanPastor Fontaine
  29. 20157 Days in HellSandy Pickard
  30. 2015Staten Island SummerGriffith
  31. 2015She's Funny That WayJoshua Fleet
  32. 2015A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation CrackdownCody (voice)
  33. 2014Apartment TroublesSimon
  34. 2014Michelangelo and Lincoln: History CopsLincoln (voice)
  35. 201422 Jump Street'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
  36. 2014The Lego MovieAbraham Lincoln (voice)
  37. 2014Run & JumpTed
  38. 2013Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2Chester V (voice)
  39. 2013NebraskaDavid Grant
  40. 2013Life of CrimeMarshall Taylor
  41. 2013Grown Ups 2Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
  42. 2013Coffin DodgersVoice
  43. 2012The WatchSergeant Bressman
  44. 2012That's My BoyPhil
  45. 2012Rock of AgesMitch Miley
  46. 2012The ImmigrantWill
  47. 2012Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar MovieAllan Bishopman
  48. 2011A Good Old Fashioned OrgyGlenn
  49. 2011Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10MacGruber
  50. 2011Audio Tour
  51. 2010MacGruberMacGruber
  52. 2010Skott & Behr
  53. 2009The Slammin' SalmonHorace the Lone Diner
  54. 2009Brief Interviews with Hideous MenSubject #72
  55. 2009Cloudy with a Chance of MeatballsJoe Towne (voice)
  56. 2009FanboysTHX Security Guard #4
  57. 2008Baby MamaScott
  58. 2007The Brothers SolomonDean Solomon
  59. 2006BeerfestOtto
  60. 2006Laser Cats!RobotTron
  61. 2004Around the World in 80 DaysYoung Bobby
  62. 2001Ghost World(uncredited)