Will Forte
Acting • Born 1970-06-17
Biography
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.
Filmography
163 credits
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 2004
Young Bobby
The Brothers Solomon
Movie • 2007
Dean Solomon
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Movie • 2009
Joe Towne (voice)
Baby Mama
Movie • 2008
Scott
Horrible Bosses 2
Movie • 2014
Derelict (uncredited)
Studio 666
Movie • 2022
Darren Sandelbaum
The Slammin' Salmon
Movie • 2009
Horace the Lone Diner
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Movie • 2023
Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Movie • 2009
Subject #72
Strays
Movie • 2023
Doug
MacGruber
Movie • 2010
MacGruber
The Watch
Movie • 2012
Sergeant Bressman
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Movie • 2011
Glenn
Rock of Ages
Movie • 2012
Mitch Miley
Audio Tour
Movie • 2011
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Movie • 2013
Chester V (voice)
Nebraska
Movie • 2013
David Grant
The Lego Movie
Movie • 2014
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Run & Jump
Movie • 2014
Ted
Life of Crime
Movie • 2013
Marshall Taylor
She's Funny That Way
Movie • 2015
Joshua Fleet
Fanboys
Movie • 2009
THX Security Guard #4
Apartment Troubles
Movie • 2014
Simon
Coyote vs. Acme
Movie • 2026
Kevin Avery
Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops
Movie • 2014
Lincoln (voice)
7 Days in Hell
Movie • 2015
Sandy Pickard
Saturday Night
Movie • 2010
Self
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Movie • 2022
Ben Scotti
Don Verdean
Movie • 2015
Pastor Fontaine
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Movie • 2009
Various (archive footage)
Thelma the Unicorn
Movie • 2024
Otis (voice)
Kinda Pregnant
Movie • 2025
Josh Lewis
Keanu
Movie • 2016
Hulka
The Ridiculous 6
Movie • 2015
Will Patch
Staten Island Summer
Movie • 2015
Griffith
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Movie • 2023
Cyrus
A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
Movie • 2015
Cody (voice)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Movie • 2016
Bagpipe Player
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Movie • 2018
Doug Kenney
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Movie • 2012
Allan Bishopman
That's My Boy
Movie • 2012
Phil
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Movie • 2017
Michael Fulton
Tour de Pharmacy
Movie • 2017
French Gendarme
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
Movie • 2017
Self
22 Jump Street
Movie • 2014
'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Booksmart
Movie • 2019
Doug
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?
Movie • 2017
Will Grello
Extra Ordinary
Movie • 2019
Christian Winter
The Laundromat
Movie • 2019
Doomed Gringo #1
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Movie • 2019
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Coffin Dodgers
Movie • 2013
Voice
Good Boys
Movie • 2019
Max's Dad
Scoob!
Movie • 2020
Shaggy Rogers (voice)
The Immigrant
Movie • 2012
Will
Beerfest
Movie • 2006
Otto
Grown Ups 2
Movie • 2013
Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
The Women of SNL
Movie • 2010
Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)
Ghost World
Movie • 2001
(uncredited)
The Willoughbys
Movie • 2020
Tim Willoughby (voice)
Dwell
Movie • 2020
Self Help Book Narrator
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Movie • 2020
Self
Skott & Behr
Movie • 2010
Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes
Movie • 2006
Self
America: The Motion Picture
Movie • 2021
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Drunk Bus
Movie • 2021
Fred
Will & Harper
Movie • 2024
Self
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
Movie • 2011
MacGruber
The Breadwinner
Movie • 2026
Keegan
Downey Wrote That
Movie • 2025
Self
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
Movie • 2010
Self
How I Met Your Mother
TV • 2005
Randy
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Jesus Christ (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Various Characters
Clone High
TV • 2002
Abe Lincoln / Narrator (voice)
Flight of the Conchords
TV • 2007
Ben
Campus Ladies
TV • 2006
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Paul L'astnamé
Drawn Together
TV • 2004
Kirk Cameron (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Sit Down Shut Up
TV • 2009
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
TV • 2008
Parks and Recreation
TV • 2009
Kelly
Conan
TV • 2010
Self
HouseBroken
TV • 2021
Shel (voice)
Sweet Tooth
TV • 2021
Richard Fox / Pubba
The Cleveland Show
TV • 2009
Clone High
TV • 2023
Abe Lincoln (voice)
Allen Gregory
TV • 2011
Stewart Rossmyre
Up All Night
TV • 2011
Reed
Gravity Falls
TV • 2012
Tyler Cutebiker (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Last Man on Earth
TV • 2015
Phil Tandy Miller
Comedy Bang! Bang!
TV • 2012
Chet Barnsider
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
TV • 2019
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Butt Insurance Salesman (voice)
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Charlie Greenfield (voice)
Moonbeam City
TV • 2015
Red Cunningham (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Security Guard (voice)
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Mayor Woodside (voice)
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Convention Attendee (voice)
Bob's Burgers
TV • 2011
Mr. Grant (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
The League
TV • 2009
Chuck
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
Pall Willeaux
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
Will Grello
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
Dr. Reid Tamaranda
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
J.J. Pepper
The Gong Show
TV • 2017
Self - Judge
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Bob's Burgers
TV • 2011
Kurt (voice)
Krapopolis
TV • 2023
Campos (voice)
The Shivering Truth
TV • 2018
(voice)
Craig of the Creek
TV • 2018
Barry (voice)
The Afterparty
TV • 2022
Self
Lab Rats
TV • 2012
Eddy
Lab Rats
TV • 2012
Eddy/Teddy
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
TV • 2023
Older Scott Pilgrim (voice)
Lab Rats
TV • 2012
Eddy / Cheddy
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
TV • 2015
Tyler / Hunter / Chet / Blue Helmet Kid (voice)
Alien News Desk
TV • 2019
Drexx Drudlarr (voice)
The Life & Times of Tim
TV • 2008
Chipper (voice)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
TV • 2000
Alien (voice)
Win or Lose
TV • 2025
Coach Dan (voice)
Future Man
TV • 2017
CASSIN-E
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Sock or Hat?
TV • 2014
Self - Contestant
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
TV • 2019
Old Man on Plane
Bodkin
TV • 2024
Gilbert Power
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
TV • 2014
Will
The Great North
TV • 2021
Wolf Tobin (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self
Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten
TV • 2014
Self
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Tomas
Rick and Morty
TV • 2013
Eugene Michael Piss / Pissmaster (voice)
No Activity
TV • 2017
Dirk (voice)
Flipped
TV • 2020
Jann Melfi
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
King Toot (voice)
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Firefighter Henry Watkins (voice)
Drunk History
TV • 2013
Edwin Booth
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
TV • 2023
Even Older Scott Pilgrim (voice)
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV • 2014
Self
The Four Seasons
TV • 2025
Jack
Sunny Nights
TV • 2025
Martin
That '90s Show
TV • 2023
Kiefer
Sausage Party: Foodtopia
TV • 2024
Jack (voice)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
TV • 2020
Self - Contestant
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2009
Self
Raw
TV • 1993
MacGruber
MacGruber
TV • 2021
MacGruber
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
TV • 2023
Warden (voice)
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Haunted Hotel
TV • 2025
Nathan (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Somebody Feed Phil
TV • 2018
Self
Studio C
TV • 2012
Self - Special Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Young Person's Guide to History
TV • 2008
Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest