Will Forte - Actor Profile

Will Forte

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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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2025 Kinda Pregnant Josh Lewis ★ 5.6 FLOP
2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music Self (archive footage) ★ 7.7 HIT
2024 Will & Harper Self ★ 7.3 HIT
2024 Thelma the Unicorn Otis (voice) ★ 7.0 HIT
2023 Strays Doug ★ 7.2 HIT
2023 Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Gordon Lighthouse (voice) ★ 7.2 HIT
2022 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Ben Scotti ★ 6.7 HIT
2022 Studio 666 Darren Sandelbaum ★ 5.9 FLOP
2021 America: The Motion Picture Abraham Lincoln (voice) ★ 5.8 FLOP
2020 Scoob! Shaggy Rogers (voice) ★ 7.0 HIT
2020 Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics Self ★ 6.6 HIT
2020 The Willoughbys Tim Willoughby (voice) ★ 7.1 HIT
2019 The Laundromat Doomed Gringo #1 ★ 6.0 FLOP
2019 Extra Ordinary Christian Winter ★ 6.4 FLOP
2019 Good Boys Max's Dad ★ 6.8 HIT
2019 Booksmart Doug ★ 7.0 HIT
2019 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Abraham Lincoln (voice) ★ 6.7 HIT
2018 A Futile and Stupid Gesture Doug Kenney ★ 6.5 HIT
2017 Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs Self ★ 6.4 FLOP
2017 Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job? Will Grello ★ 7.6 HIT
2017 Tour de Pharmacy French Gendarme ★ 6.7 HIT
2017 Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special Michael Fulton ★ 6.1 FLOP
2016 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Bagpipe Player ★ 6.6 HIT
2016 Keanu Hulka ★ 6.1 FLOP
2015 7 Days in Hell Sandy Pickard ★ 6.5 HIT
2015 She's Funny That Way Joshua Fleet ★ 5.9 FLOP
2014 Horrible Bosses 2 Derelict (uncredited) ★ 6.2 FLOP
2014 22 Jump Street 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.8 HIT
2014 The Lego Movie Abraham Lincoln (voice) ★ 7.4 HIT
2014 Run & Jump Ted ★ 5.9 FLOP
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Chester V (voice) ★ 6.5 HIT
2013 Nebraska David Grant ★ 7.5 HIT
2013 Life of Crime Marshall Taylor ★ 5.7 FLOP
2013 Grown Ups 2 Male Cheerleader (uncredited) ★ 6.1 FLOP
2013 Coffin Dodgers Voice ★ 10.0 HIT
2012 The Watch Sergeant Bressman ★ 5.6 FLOP
2012 That's My Boy Phil ★ 5.8 FLOP
2012 Rock of Ages Mitch Miley ★ 6.2 FLOP
2011 A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Glenn ★ 5.8 FLOP
2010 The Women of SNL Greg Allman / Various (archive footage) ★ 6.0 FLOP
2010 Saturday Night Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2009 The Slammin' Salmon Horace the Lone Diner ★ 5.8 FLOP
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Joe Towne (voice) ★ 6.7 HIT
2009 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler Various (archive footage) ★ 8.4 HIT
2009 Fanboys THX Security Guard #4 ★ 6.1 FLOP
2008 Baby Mama Scott ★ 6.0 FLOP
2006 Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
2006 Beerfest Otto ★ 5.9 FLOP
2004 Around the World in 80 Days Young Bobby ★ 6.0 FLOP
2001 Ghost World (uncredited) ★ 7.1 HIT