1970-06-17 Alameda, California, USA
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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The Breadwinner | Keegan | 2026-03-12 |
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Coyote vs. Acme | Kevin Avery | 2026-08-27 |
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | 2025-01-27 |
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Kinda Pregnant | Josh Lewis | 2025-02-04 |
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Thelma the Unicorn | Otis (voice) | 2024-05-17 |
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The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special | Self (archive footage) | 2024-12-31 |
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Will & Harper | Self | 2024-09-12 |
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Strays | Doug | 2023-08-17 |
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Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out | Cyrus | 2023-08-18 |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken | Gordon Lighthouse (voice) | 2023-06-28 |
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Ben Scotti | 2022-09-08 |
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Studio 666 | Darren Sandelbaum | 2022-02-24 |
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Drunk Bus | Fred | 2021-05-21 |
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America: The Motion Picture | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 2021-06-30 |
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Scoob! | Shaggy Rogers (voice) | 2020-07-08 |
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Dwell | Self Help Book Narrator | 2020-04-10 |
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Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics | Self | 2020-05-11 |
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The Willoughbys | Tim Willoughby (voice) | 2020-04-22 |
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The Laundromat | Doomed Gringo #1 | 2019-09-27 |
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Good Boys | Max's Dad | 2019-08-14 |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 2019-02-06 |
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Booksmart | Doug | 2019-05-24 |
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Extra Ordinary | Christian Winter | 2019-09-13 |
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture | Doug Kenney | 2018-01-24 |
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job? | Will Grello | 2017-08-27 |
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Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs | Self | 2017-11-18 |
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Tour de Pharmacy | French Gendarme | 2017-07-08 |
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Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special | Michael Fulton | 2017-02-07 |
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Keanu | Hulka | 2016-04-29 |
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping | Bagpipe Player | 2016-06-03 |
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Staten Island Summer | Griffith | 2015-06-30 |
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Get Squirrely | Cody (voice) | 2015-03-01 |
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The Ridiculous 6 | Will Patch | 2015-12-11 |
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Don Verdean | Pastor Fontaine | 2015-12-01 |
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7 Days in Hell | Sandy Pickard | 2015-07-08 |
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She's Funny That Way | Joshua Fleet | 2015-04-22 |
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Run & Jump | Ted | 2014-01-24 |
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The Lego Movie | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 2014-02-06 |
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22 Jump Street | 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | 2014-06-05 |
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Horrible Bosses 2 | Derelict (uncredited) | 2014-11-12 |
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Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops | Lincoln (voice) | 2014-06-12 |
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Apartment Troubles | 2014-06-15 | |
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Nebraska | David Grant | 2013-09-21 |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Chester V (voice) | 2013-09-26 |
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Life of Crime | Marshall Taylor | 2013-09-14 |
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Grown Ups 2 | Male Cheerleader (uncredited) | 2013-07-11 |
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Coffin Dodgers | Voice | 2013-01-01 |
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The Immigrant | Will | 2012-05-26 |
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | Allan Bishopman | 2012-03-02 |
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Rock of Ages | Mitch Miley | 2012-06-13 |
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That's My Boy | Phil | 2012-06-14 |
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The Watch | Sergeant Bressman | 2012-07-26 |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10 | MacGruber | 2011-03-13 |
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | Glenn | 2011-09-02 |
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Audio Tour | 2011-01-01 | |
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Saturday Night | Self | 2010-05-02 |
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Skott & Behr | 2010-05-14 | |
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MacGruber | MacGruber | 2010-05-21 |
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The Women of SNL | Greg Allman / Various (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
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The Slammin' Salmon | Horace the Lone Diner | 2009-12-11 |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Joe Towne (voice) | 2009-09-17 |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler | Various (archive footage) | 2009-04-18 |
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | Subject #72 | 2009-09-25 |
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Fanboys | THX Security Guard #4 | 2009-02-06 |
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Baby Mama | Scott | 2008-04-25 |
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The Young Person's Guide to History | Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman) | 2008-10-26 |
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The Brothers Solomon | Dean Solomon | 2007-09-07 |
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Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes | Self | 2006-09-26 |
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Beerfest | Otto | 2006-08-25 |
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Around the World in 80 Days | Young Bobby | 2004-06-16 |
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Ghost World | (uncredited) | 2001-07-20 |
