Acting
Will Forte
EN cinema · 82 credits
Born
17 June 1970 (age 56)
Birthplace
Alameda, California, USA
Also known as Orville Forte · Orville Willis Forte IV · 威尔·福尔特 · ويل فورت · ویل فورته
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
Filmography
Synergy Systems
Synergy Systems
as Narcissus
Centrefield
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Coyote vs. Acme
as Kevin Avery
The Breadwinner
as Keegan
Kinda Pregnant
as Josh Lewis
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
Haunted Hotel
as Nathan
Thelma the Unicorn
as Otis (voice)
Will & Harper
as Self
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
as Self (archive footage)
An SNL Thanksgiving
as (archive footage)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
as Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
Strays
as Doug
Studio 666
as Darren Sandelbaum
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
as Ben Scotti
America: The Motion Picture
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Drunk Bus
as Fred
Scoob!
as Shaggy Rogers (voice)
The Willoughbys
as Tim Willoughby (voice)
Dwell
as Self Help Book Narrator
Booksmart
as Doug
Extra Ordinary
as Christian Winter
The Laundromat
as Doomed Gringo #1
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Good Boys
as Max's Dad
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
as Doug Kenney
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
as Michael Fulton
Tour de Pharmacy
as French Gendarme
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?
as Will Grello
Keanu
as Hulka
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
as Bagpipe Player
She's Funny That Way
as Joshua Fleet
7 Days in Hell
as Sandy Pickard
Don Verdean
as Pastor Fontaine
The Ridiculous 6
as Will Patch
Staten Island Summer
as Griffith
A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
as Cody (voice)
An SNL Valentine
as (archive footage)
The Lego Movie
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Run & Jump
as Ted
Apartment Troubles
as Simon
Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops
as Lincoln (voice)
22 Jump Street
as 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
as Chester V (voice)
Nebraska
as David Grant
Life of Crime
as Marshall Taylor
Coffin Dodgers
as Voice
Grown Ups 2
as Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
The Watch
as Sergeant Bressman
Rock of Ages
as Mitch Miley
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
as Allan Bishopman
That's My Boy
as Phil
MacGruber
as MacGruber, Writer
Saturday Night
as Self
The Women of SNL
as Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
as Joe Towne (voice)
The Slammin' Salmon
as Horace the Lone Diner
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
as Subject #72
Fanboys
as THX Security Guard #4
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
as Various (archive footage)
Baby Mama
as Scott
The Brothers Solomon
as Dean Solomon, Writer
Beerfest
as Otto
Laser Cats!
as RobotTron
Around the World in 80 Days
as Young Bobby
Ghost World
as (uncredited)