Will Forte

Actor

Born June 17, 1970 in 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).

Filmography

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Coyote vs ACME

Kevin Avery

The Breadwinner

Keegan

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

Sunny Nights

Martin

Downey Wrote That

Self

Haunted Hotel

Nathan (voice)

The Four Seasons

Jack

Win or Lose

Coach Dan (voice)

Kinda Pregnant

Josh Lewis

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self (archive footage)

The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special

Self (archive footage)

Will & Harper

Self

Sausage Party: Foodtopia

Jack (voice)

Thelma the Unicorn

Otis (voice)

Bodkin

Gilbert Power

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Older Scott Pilgrim (voice)

Krapopolis

Campos (voice)

Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

Cyrus

Strays

Doug

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Gordon Lighthouse (voice)

Clone High

Abe Lincoln (voice)

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Warden (voice)

That '90s Show

Kiefer

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Ben Scotti

Studio 666

Darren Sandelbaum

The Afterparty

Self

MacGruber

America: The Motion Picture

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Sweet Tooth

Richard Fox / Pubba

HouseBroken

Shel (voice)

Drunk Bus

Fred

The Great North

Wolf Tobin (voice)

Scoob!

Shaggy Rogers (voice)

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

Self

The Willoughbys

Tim Willoughby (voice)

Dwell

Self Help Book Narrator

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Self - Contestant

Flipped

Jann Melfi

The Laundromat

Doomed Gringo #1

Extra Ordinary

Christian Winter

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

Good Boys

Max's Dad

The Boys

Will Forte (uncredited)

Booksmart

Doug

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

Alien News Desk

Drexx Drudlarr (voice)

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

The Shivering Truth

(voice)

Craig of the Creek

Barry (voice)

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

Doug Kenney

Somebody Feed Phil

Self

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs

Self

Future Man

CASSIN-E

No Activity

Dirk (voice)

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

Will Grello

Tour de Pharmacy

French Gendarme

The Gong Show

Self - Judge

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

Michael Fulton

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Bagpipe Player

Keanu

Hulka

The Ridiculous 6

Will Patch

Don Verdean

Pastor Fontaine

Moonbeam City

Red Cunningham (voice)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self

7 Days in Hell

Sandy Pickard

Staten Island Summer

Griffith

She's Funny That Way

Joshua Fleet

Hot Ones

Self

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

Cody (voice)

The Last Man on Earth

Phil Tandy Miller

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

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

Horrible Bosses 2

Derelict (uncredited)

Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten

Self

Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories

Will

Apartment Troubles

Simon

Sock or Hat?

Self - Contestant

Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops

Lincoln (voice)

22 Jump Street

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

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self

The Lego Movie

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Self

Run & Jump

Ted

Rick and Morty

Eugene Michael Piss / Pissmaster (voice)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Chester V (voice)

Nebraska

David Grant

Life of Crime

Marshall Taylor

Grown Ups 2

Male Cheerleader (uncredited)

Drunk History

Edwin Booth

Coffin Dodgers

Voice

Studio C

Self - Special Guest

The Watch

Sergeant Bressman

Gravity Falls

Tyler Cutebiker (voice)

That's My Boy

Phil

Rock of Ages

Mitch Miley

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Chet Barnsider

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

Allan Bishopman

Lab Rats

Eddy

Allen Gregory

Stewart Rossmyre

Up All Night

Reed

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Glenn

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

MacGruber

Bob's Burgers

Mr. Grant (voice)

Conan

Self

The Women of SNL

Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)

MacGruber

Skott & Behr

Saturday Night

Self

The Slammin' Salmon

Horace the Lone Diner

The League

Chuck

The Cleveland Show

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Subject #72

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Joe Towne (voice)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Sit Down Shut Up

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Various (archive footage)

Parks and Recreation

Kelly

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Self

Fanboys

THX Security Guard #4

Extreme Movie

Young Person's Guide to History

Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman)

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday

The Life & Times of Tim

Chipper (voice)

Baby Mama

Scott

The Brothers Solomon

Dean Solomon

Flight of the Conchords

Ben

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Pall Willeaux

30 Rock

Paul L'astnamé

Beerfest

Otto

Campus Ladies

How I Met Your Mother

Randy

American Dad!

Jesus Christ (voice)

Drawn Together

Kirk Cameron (voice)

Around the World in 80 Days

Young Bobby

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

Clone High

Abe Lincoln / Narrator (voice)

Ghost World

(uncredited)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Alien (voice)

Action

The Army Show

That '70s Show

3rd Rock from the Sun

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Raw

MacGruber

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Simpsons

King Toot (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Self - Various Characters