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Will Forte
Known for: 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.
Filmography 63
Coyote vs. Acme
as Kevin Avery 
The Four Seasons
as Jack 
The Great North
+1
as Wolf Tobin (voice) 
Haunted Hotel
as Nathan (voice) 
Win or Lose
as Coach Dan (voice) 
The Last Man on Earth
as Phil Tandy Miller 
The Lego Movie
+11
as Abraham Lincoln (voice) 
The Breadwinner
+1
as Keegan 
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
+4
as Joe Towne (voice) 
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
+5
as Chester V (voice) 
Will & Harper
as Self 
That's My Boy
+2
as Phil 
Clone High
as Abe Lincoln (voice) 
The Watch
+4
as Sergeant Bressman 
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
+4
as Gordon Lighthouse (voice) 
Clone High
as Abe Lincoln / Narrator (voice) 
HouseBroken
as Shel (voice) 
Bodkin
as Gilbert Power 
Rock of Ages
+1
as Mitch Miley 
Nebraska
+1
as David Grant 
The Laundromat
as Doomed Gringo #1 
Around the World in 80 Days
+1
as Young Bobby 
Thelma the Unicorn
as Otis (voice) 
Good Boys
+1
as Max's Dad 
Scoob!
+2
as Shaggy Rogers (voice) 
Strays
+2
as Doug 
A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
as Cody (voice) 
Booksmart
+4
as Doug 
Kinda Pregnant
as Josh Lewis 
Moonbeam City
as Red Cunningham (voice) 
Studio 666
+3
as Darren Sandelbaum 
Life of Crime
+4
as Marshall Taylor 
She's Funny That Way
+4
as Joshua Fleet 
The Ridiculous 6
as Will Patch 
MacGruber
as MacGruber 
The Willoughbys
as Tim Willoughby (voice) 
Sunny Nights
as Martin 
Extreme Movie
+3
Writer 
MacGruber
as MacGruber 
Alien News Desk
as Drexx Drudlarr (voice) 
America: The Motion Picture
as Abraham Lincoln (voice) 
The Brothers Solomon
+4
as Dean Solomon 
7 Days in Hell
+2
as Sandy Pickard 
Beerfest
+2
as Otto 
Keanu
+1
as Hulka 
The Slammin' Salmon
as Horace the Lone Diner 
Allen Gregory
as Stewart Rossmyre 
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
+2
as Glenn 
Extra Ordinary
+3
as Christian Winter 
Tour de Pharmacy
+2
as French Gendarme 
Baby Mama
+2
as Scott 
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
as Doug Kenney 
Drunk Bus
+3
as Fred 
Staten Island Summer
+2
as Griffith 
Don Verdean
+5
as Pastor Fontaine 
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
+3
as Allan Bishopman 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
as Subject #72 
Downey Wrote That
as Self 
Apartment Troubles
+3
as Simon 
Run & Jump
as Ted