Will Forte

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Will Forte

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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).

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Films Featuring Will Forte

Around the World in 80 Days

20046.0

The Brothers Solomon

20075.0

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

20096.7

Baby Mama

20086.0

Horrible Bosses 2

20146.2

Studio 666

20225.9

The Slammin' Salmon

20095.8

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

20237.1

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

20095.1

Strays

20237.2

MacGruber

20105.4

The Watch

20125.6

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

20115.9

Rock of Ages

20126.2

Audio Tour

2011

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

20136.5

Nebraska

20137.4

The Lego Movie

20147.4

Run & Jump

20145.9

Life of Crime

20135.7

She's Funny That Way

20155.9

Fanboys

20096.1

Apartment Troubles

20145.0

Coyote vs. Acme

2026

Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops

20144.0

7 Days in Hell

20156.5

Saturday Night

20107.7

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

20226.7

Don Verdean

20154.9

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

20097.7

Thelma the Unicorn

20246.9

Kinda Pregnant

20255.6

Keanu

20166.0

The Ridiculous 6

20155.2

Staten Island Summer

20155.6

Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

20235.8

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

20154.7

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

20166.6

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

20186.4

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

20125.5

That's My Boy

20125.8

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

20176.1

Tour de Pharmacy

20176.7

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs

20176.4

22 Jump Street

20146.8

Booksmart

20197.0

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

20177.6

Extra Ordinary

20196.4

The Laundromat

20196.0

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

20196.7

Coffin Dodgers

20139.0

Good Boys

20196.8

Scoob!

20207.0

The Immigrant

20124.0

Beerfest

20065.8

Grown Ups 2

20136.2

The Women of SNL

20105.2

Ghost World

20017.1

The Willoughbys

20207.0

Dwell

2020

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics

20206.6

Skott & Behr

2010

Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes

Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes

20066.0

America: The Motion Picture

20215.8

Drunk Bus

20215.7

Will & Harper

20247.4

The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special

2024

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

20257.7

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

2011

The Breadwinner

20267.6

Downey Wrote That

2025

Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

2010

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

2026

Synergy Systems

Synergy Systems

Laser Cats!

2006

Goblin

Wampler's Ascent

2013