Will Forte
ActingOrville 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.
Known For
Grown Ups 2
Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
The Lego Movie
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Joe Towne (voice)
That's My Boy
Phil
22 Jump Street
'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Horrible Bosses 2
Derelict (uncredited)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Chester V (voice)
Scoob!
Shaggy Rogers (voice)
Filmography — Acting
Grown Ups 2
Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
The Lego Movie
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Joe Towne (voice)
That's My Boy
Phil
22 Jump Street
'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Horrible Bosses 2
Derelict (uncredited)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Chester V (voice)
Scoob!
Shaggy Rogers (voice)
The Watch
Sergeant Bressman
Around the World in 80 Days
Young Bobby
Good Boys
Max's Dad
Strays
Doug
Booksmart
Doug
Keanu
Hulka
Rock of Ages
Mitch Miley
The Ridiculous 6
Will Patch
Ghost World
(uncredited)
The Laundromat
Doomed Gringo #1
Thelma the Unicorn
Otis (voice)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Ben Scotti
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Bagpipe Player
Beerfest
Otto
Nebraska
David Grant
Coyote vs. Acme
Kevin Avery
Fanboys
THX Security Guard #4
The Breadwinner
Keegan
Life of Crime
Marshall Taylor
Baby Mama
Scott
Tour de Pharmacy
French Gendarme
The Willoughbys
Tim Willoughby (voice)
Studio 666
Darren Sandelbaum
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
She's Funny That Way
Joshua Fleet
Kinda Pregnant
Josh Lewis
MacGruber
MacGruber
7 Days in Hell
Sandy Pickard
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Doug Kenney
The Slammin' Salmon
Horace the Lone Diner
Will & Harper
Self
Extra Ordinary
Christian Winter
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Glenn
The Brothers Solomon
Dean Solomon
Don Verdean
Pastor Fontaine
America: The Motion Picture
Abraham Lincoln (voice)
Staten Island Summer
Griffith
The Women of SNL
Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Allan Bishopman
A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
Cody (voice)
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Self
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
MacGruber
The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
Self (archive footage)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Subject #72
Apartment Troubles
Simon
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
Michael Fulton
Drunk Bus
Fred
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
Self
Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Cyrus
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
Self
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
Various (archive footage)
Skott & Behr
Downey Wrote That
Self
Coffin Dodgers
Voice
Run & Jump
Ted
Audio Tour
Saturday Night
Self
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?
Will Grello
Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes
Self
The Immigrant
Will
Dwell
Self Help Book Narrator
Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops
Lincoln (voice)
