Will Forte
Born: 1970-06-17 in Alameda, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Breadwinner as Keegan
- Coyote vs ACME as Kevin Avery
- Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
2025
- The Four Seasons as Jack
- Haunted Hotel as Nathan (voice)
- Win or Lose as Coach Dan (voice)
- Kinda Pregnant as Josh Lewis
- Sunny Nights as Martin
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self (archive footage)
- Downey Wrote That as Self
- Saturday Night Live: 50th Anniversary Special as Elmo
2024
- Sausage Party: Foodtopia as Jack (voice)
- Bodkin as Gilbert Power
- Thelma the Unicorn as Otis (voice)
- Will & Harper as Self
- The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Krapopolis as Campos (voice)
- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off as Older Scott Pilgrim (voice)
- Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai as Warden (voice)
- That '90s Show as Kiefer
- Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
- Strays as Doug
- Clone High as Abe Lincoln (voice)
- Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out as Cyrus
2022
- The Afterparty as Self
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as Ben Scotti
- Studio 666 as Darren Sandelbaum
2021
- The Great North as Wolf Tobin (voice)
- Sweet Tooth as Richard Fox / Pubba
- HouseBroken as Shel (voice)
- MacGruber as MacGruber
- America: The Motion Picture as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Drunk Bus as Fred
2020
- Scoob! as Shaggy Rogers (voice)
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as Self - Contestant
- Flipped as Jann Melfi
- The Willoughbys as Tim Willoughby (voice)
- Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics as Self
- Dwell as Self Help Book Narrator
2019
- The Boys as Will Forte (uncredited)
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Booksmart as Doug
- Good Boys as Max's Dad
- The Laundromat as Doomed Gringo #1
- Alien News Desk as Drexx Drudlarr (voice)
- Extra Ordinary as Christian Winter
2018
- Craig of the Creek as Barry (voice)
- Somebody Feed Phil as Self
- The Shivering Truth as (voice)
- A Futile and Stupid Gesture as Doug Kenney
2017
- Future Man as CASSIN-E
- No Activity as Dirk (voice)
- The Gong Show as Self - Judge
- Tour de Pharmacy as French Gendarme
- Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs as Self
- Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special as Michael Fulton
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job? as Will Grello
2016
- Keanu as Hulka
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as Bagpipe Player
2015
- Hot Ones as Self
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil as Tyler / Hunter / Chet / Blue Helmet Kid (voice)
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- The Last Man on Earth as Phil Tandy Miller
- The Ridiculous 6 as Will Patch
- Moonbeam City as Red Cunningham (voice)
- She's Funny That Way as Joshua Fleet
- Staten Island Summer as Griffith
- 7 Days in Hell as Sandy Pickard
- Don Verdean as Pastor Fontaine
- A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown as Cody (voice)
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- The Lego Movie as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 22 Jump Street as 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Horrible Bosses 2 as Derelict (uncredited)
- Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories as Will
- Sock or Hat? as Self - Contestant
- Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten as Self
- Run & Jump as Ted
- Apartment Troubles as Simon
- Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops as Lincoln (voice)
2013
- Rick and Morty as Eugene Michael Piss / Pissmaster (voice)
- Grown Ups 2 as Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
- Drunk History as Edwin Booth
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 as Chester V (voice)
- Life of Crime as Marshall Taylor
- Nebraska as David Grant
- Coffin Dodgers as Voice
2012
- Gravity Falls as Tyler Cutebiker (voice)
- Lab Rats as Eddy
- Comedy Bang! Bang! as Chet Barnsider
- That's My Boy as Phil
- Studio C as Self - Special Guest
- The Watch as Sergeant Bressman
- Rock of Ages as Mitch Miley
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie as Allan Bishopman
- The Immigrant as Will
2011
- Bob's Burgers as Mr. Grant (voice)
- Up All Night as Reed
- Allen Gregory as Stewart Rossmyre
- A Good Old Fashioned Orgy as Glenn
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10 as MacGruber
- Audio Tour
2010
- Conan as Self
- MacGruber as MacGruber
- The Women of SNL as Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)
- Saturday Night as Self
- Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again as Self
- Skott & Behr
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- Parks and Recreation as Kelly
- The League as Chuck
- The Cleveland Show
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as Joe Towne (voice)
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Sit Down Shut Up
- Fanboys as THX Security Guard #4
- The Slammin' Salmon as Horace the Lone Diner
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Subject #72
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler as Various (archive footage)
2008
- The Life & Times of Tim as Chipper (voice)
- Extreme Movie ... (Writer)
- Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
- Baby Mama as Scott
- Young Person's Guide to History as Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman)
2007
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Pall Willeaux
- Flight of the Conchords as Ben
- The Brothers Solomon as Dean Solomon
2006
- 30 Rock as Paul L'astnamé
- Campus Ladies
- Beerfest as Otto
- Laser Cats! as RobotTron
- Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes as Self
2005
- American Dad! as Jesus Christ (voice)
- How I Met Your Mother as Randy
2004
- Drawn Together as Kirk Cameron (voice)
- Around the World in 80 Days as Young Bobby
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2002
- Clone High as Abe Lincoln / Narrator (voice)
2001
- Ghost World as (uncredited)
2000
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Alien (voice)
1999
- Action ... (Story Editor)
1998
- That '70s Show ... (Writer)
- The Army Show ... (Writer)
1996
- 3rd Rock from the Sun ... (Writer)
1993
- Raw as MacGruber
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992
- MTV Movie & TV Awards ... (Writer)
1989
- The Simpsons as King Toot (voice)
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters