
About
Will Forte
Overview
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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Known for
Acting |
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2025 | Win or Lose | Actor | Coach Dan (voice) | 74 Good |
2025 | Kinda Pregnant | Actor | Josh Lewis | 57 Average |
2025 | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2024 | The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2024 | Will & Harper | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
2024 | Thelma the Unicorn | Actor | Otis (voice) | 61 Fair |
2024 | Bodkin | Actor | Gilbert Power | 65 Fair |
2023 | Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out | Actor | Cyrus | 58 Average |
2023 | Strays | Actor | Doug | 67 Fair |
2023 | Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken | Actor | Gordon Lighthouse (voice) | 67 Fair |
2023 | Clone High | Actor | Abe Lincoln (voice) | 69 Fair |
2022 | The Meet Arnold: The Movie | Actor | Grigori Rasputin | N/A N/A |
2022 | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Actor | Ben Scotti | 62 Fair |
2022 | Studio 666 | Actor | Darren Sandelbaum | 59 Average |
2021 | MacGruber | Actor | MacGruber | 65 Fair |
2021 | America: The Motion Picture | Actor | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 58 Average |
2021 | HouseBroken | Actor | Shel (voice) | 65 Fair |
2021 | Drunk Bus | Actor | Fred | 58 Average |
2021 | The Great North | Actor | Wolf Tobin (voice) | 68 Fair |
2020 | Scoob! | Actor | Shaggy Rogers (voice) | 67 Fair |
2020 | Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
2020 | The Willoughbys | Actor | Tim Willoughby (voice) | 66 Fair |
2020 | Dwell | Actor | Self Help Book Narrator | N/A N/A |
2020 | Flipped | Actor | Jann Melfi | 68 Fair |
2019 | The Laundromat | Actor | Doomed Gringo #1 | 59 Average |
2019 | Extra Ordinary | Actor | Christian Winter | 60 Fair |
2019 | Good Boys | Actor | Max's Dad | 66 Fair |
2019 | Booksmart | Actor | Doug | 68 Fair |
2019 | Alien News Desk | Actor | Drexx Drudlarr (voice) | 67 Fair |
2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Actor | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 65 Fair |
2018 | A Futile and Stupid Gesture | Actor | Doug Kenney | 61 Fair |
2017 | Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2017 | The Demotion | Actor | Will | 59 Average |
2017 | Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job? | Actor | Will Grello | 59 Average |
2017 | Tour de Pharmacy | Actor | French Gendarme | 61 Fair |
2017 | Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special | Actor | Michael Fulton | 59 Average |
2016 | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping | Actor | Bagpipe Player | 64 Fair |
2016 | Keanu | Actor | Hulka | 60 Fair |
2015 | The Ridiculous 6 | Actor | Will Patch | 53 Average |
2015 | Don Verdean | Actor | Pastor Fontaine | 56 Average |
2015 | Moonbeam City | Actor | Red Cunningham (voice) | 65 Fair |
2015 | 7 Days in Hell | Actor | Sandy Pickard | 61 Fair |
2015 | Staten Island Summer | Actor | Griffith | 58 Average |
2015 | She's Funny That Way | Actor | Joshua Fleet | 59 Average |
2015 | A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown | Actor | Cody (voice) | 58 Average |
2015 | The Last Man on Earth | Actor | Phil Tandy Miller | 69 Fair |
2015 | Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special | Actor | Self / Greg Stink | 59 Average |
2014 | Horrible Bosses 2 | Actor | Derelict (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
2014 | Apartment Troubles | Actor | 58 Average |
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2014 | Michelangelo & Lincoln: History Cops | Actor | Lincoln (voice) | 59 Average |
2014 | 22 Jump Street | Actor | 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | 67 Fair |
2014 | The Lego Movie | Actor | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 73 Good |
2014 | Run & Jump | Actor | Ted | 58 Average |
2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Actor | Chester V (voice) | 63 Fair |
2013 | Nebraska | Actor | David Grant | 70 Good |
2013 | Life of Crime | Actor | Marshall Taylor | 58 Average |
2013 | Grown Ups 2 | Actor | Male Cheerleader (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
2013 | Coffin Dodgers | Actor | Voice | 59 Average |
2012 | The Watch | Actor | Sergeant Bressman | 56 Average |
2012 | That's My Boy | Actor | Phil | 58 Average |
2012 | Rock of Ages | Actor | Mitch Miley | 61 Fair |
2012 | The Immigrant | Actor | Will | 59 Average |
2012 | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | Actor | Allan Bishopman | 57 Average |
2011 | Allen Gregory | Actor | Stewart Rossmyre | 62 Fair |
2011 | A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | Actor | Glenn | 58 Average |
2011 | Audio Tour | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | The Women of SNL | Actor | Greg Allman / Various (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2010 | MacGruber | Actor | MacGruber | 56 Average |
2010 | Skott & Behr | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Saturday Night | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2009 | The Slammin' Salmon | Actor | Horace the Lone Diner | 58 Average |
2009 | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | Actor | Subject #72 | 57 Average |
2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Actor | Joe Towne (voice) | 65 Fair |
2009 | Sit Down Shut Up | Actor | 67 Fair |
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2009 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler | Actor | Various (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2009 | Fanboys | Actor | THX Security Guard #4 | 60 Fair |
2008 | Young Person's Guide to History | Actor | 70 Good |
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2008 | Young Person's Guide to History | Actor | Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman) | N/A N/A |
2008 | Baby Mama | Actor | Scott | 59 Average |
2007 | The Brothers Solomon | Actor | Dean Solomon | 57 Average |
2006 | Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2006 | Beerfest | Actor | Otto | 58 Average |
2006 | Laser Cats! | Actor | Robotron, Scientist | 60 Fair |
2004 | Around the World in 80 Days | Actor | Young Bobby | 59 Average |
2002 | Clone High | Actor | Abe Lincoln / Narrator (voice) | 71 Good |
2001 | Ghost World | Actor | (uncredited) | 67 Fair |
Coyote vs. Acme | Actor | Kevin Avery | N/A N/A |
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Coyote v. Acme | Actor | Wile E. Coyote's Attorney | N/A N/A |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10 | Actor | MacGruber | N/A N/A |
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The Four Seasons | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Sunny Nights | Actor | Marvin Martin | N/A N/A |
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Expiration Date | Actor | Robin | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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2010 | MacGruber | Writing | Writer | 56 Average |
2008 | Extreme Movie | Writing | Writer | 55 Average |
2007 | The Brothers Solomon | Writing | Writer | 57 Average |
Production |
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2021 | MacGruber | Production | Executive Producer | 65 Fair |
Expiration Date | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
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Sunny Nights | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |