Will Forte
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
Young Bobby
Around the World in 80 Days
Dean Solomon
The Brothers Solomon
Joe Towne (voice)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Scott
Baby Mama
Derelict (uncredited)
Horrible Bosses 2
Darren Sandelbaum
Studio 666
Horace the Lone Diner
The Slammin' Salmon
Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Subject #72
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Doug
Strays
MacGruber
MacGruber
Sergeant Bressman
The Watch
Glenn
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Mitch Miley
Rock of Ages
Audio Tour
Chester V (voice)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
David Grant
Nebraska
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The Lego Movie
Ted
Run & Jump
Marshall Taylor
Life of Crime
Joshua Fleet
She's Funny That Way
THX Security Guard #4
Fanboys
Apartment Troubles
Kevin Avery
Coyote vs. Acme
Lincoln (voice)
Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops
Sandy Pickard
7 Days in Hell
Self
Saturday Night
Ben Scotti
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Pastor Fontaine
Don Verdean
Various (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Otis (voice)
Thelma the Unicorn
Josh Lewis
Kinda Pregnant
Hulka
Keanu
Will Patch
The Ridiculous 6
Griffith
Staten Island Summer
Cyrus
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Cody (voice)
Get Squirrely
Bagpipe Player
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Doug Kenney
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Allan Bishopman
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Phil
That's My Boy
Michael Fulton
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
French Gendarme
Tour de Pharmacy
Self
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
22 Jump Street
Doug
Booksmart
Will Grello
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?
Christian Winter
Extra Ordinary
Doomed Gringo #1
The Laundromat
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Voice
Coffin Dodgers
Max's Dad
Good Boys
Shaggy Rogers (voice)
Scoob!
Will
The Immigrant
Otto
Beerfest
Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
Grown Ups 2
Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)
The Women of SNL
(uncredited)
Ghost World
Tim Willoughby (voice)
The Willoughbys
Self Help Book Narrator
Dwell
Self
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Skott & Behr
Self
Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
America: The Motion Picture
Fred
Drunk Bus
Self
Will & Harper
Self (archive footage)
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
Self (archive footage)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
MacGruber
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
Keegan
The Breadwinner
Self
Downey Wrote That
Self
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
72
Gender
Male
Birthday
1970-06-17
Place of Birth
Alameda, California, USA
Also Known As
Orville Forte