Will Forte | |
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 Forte at the 2023 WonderCon | |
| Born | Orville Willis Forte IV June 17, 1970 Alameda, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA) |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
| Spouse |
Olivia Modling (m. 2021) |
| Children | 1 |
Orville Willis Forte IV (/ˈfɔːrteɪ/ FOR-tay;[1] born June 17, 1970[2]) is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member 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 television limited series in 2021. Forte also created and starred in the sitcom The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018). For the series, he received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations: 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. He worked as a writer and producer on 3rd Rock from the Sun and That '70s Show, before joining Saturday Night Live. Forte played various roles in comedy films, 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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- ^ "Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 11–17". AP News. June 5, 2023. Retrieved December 4, 2023.