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 Prim...
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Complete Filmography
The Breadwinner
2026
Nate’s supermom wife, Katie, lands a deal on Shark Tank. Subsequently, the lifelong breadwinner of the family becomes a stay-at-home dad and quickly r...

Kinda Pregnant
2025
as Josh Lewis
When Lainy's plan to settle down and start a family falls apart, she puts on a fake baby bump, tells a lie — and accidentally falls for her dream guy.

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The Late Night host is looking back his buzziest moments with Rihanna, Kevin Hart, and more celebs on NYE.

Will & Harper
2024
as Self
When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true sel...

Thelma the Unicorn
2024
as Otis (voice)
Thelma dreams of being a glamorous unicorn. Then in a rare pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma's wish comes true. She rises to instant inte...

Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
2023
as Cyrus
Itsy is new in town and her life seems over until she meets her space-obsessed neighbor Calvin, who believes his parents were abducted by aliens. An a...

Strays
2023
as Doug
When Reggie is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug, Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpos...

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023
as Gordon Lighthouse (voice)
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to prote...

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2022
as Ben Scotti
Exploring every facet of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’ to his torrid c...

Studio 666
2022
as Darren Sandelbaum
Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once...

America: The Motion Picture
2021
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution...

Drunk Bus
2021
as Fred
A directionless, young campus bus driver and a punk rock Samoan security guard named Pineapple form an unlikely kinship as they navigate the unpredict...

Scoob!
2020
as Shaggy Rogers (voice)
In Scooby-Doo’s greatest adventure yet, see the never-before told story of how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined forces...

Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
2020
as Self
Celebrities recall their most mind-bending trips via animations, reenactments and more in this comedic documentary exploring the story of psychedelics...

The Willoughbys
2020
as Tim Willoughby (voice)
When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary ...

Dwell
2020
as Self Help Book Narrator
Alice searches for ways to process the end of an almost decade long relationship in all the wrong places.

The Laundromat
2019
as Doomed Gringo #1
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

Extra Ordinary
2019
as Christian Winter
A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

Good Boys
2019
as Max's Dad
A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.

Booksmart
2019
as Doug
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to ...

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking every...

A Futile and Stupid Gesture
2018
as Doug Kenney
In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.

Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
2017
as Self
Jon Stewart returns to television to host a live show presented from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Benefiting NEXT for Autism, the...

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! Awesome 10 Year Anniversary Version, Great Job?
2017
as Will Grello
Tim and Eric, in their bizarre world, compete for attention in their respective martial arts display.

Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as French Gendarme
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
2017
as Michael Fulton
After Santa tells Michael Bolton that he needs 75,000 new babies by Christmas to meet toy supply, he hosts a sexy telethon to get the world to start m...

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
as Bagpipe Player
When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collap...

Keanu
2016
as Hulka
Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

The Ridiculous 6
2015
as Will Patch
When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers...

Don Verdean
2015
as Pastor Fontaine
Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition...

7 Days in Hell
2015
as Sandy Pickard
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.

Staten Island Summer
2015
as Griffith
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.

She's Funny That Way
2015
as Joshua Fleet
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the productio...

A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown
2015
as Cody (voice)
After breaking out of a rehabilitation zoo, Frankie, a squirrel with all the angles, returns to his forest. He learns from his dim-witted best friend,...

Horrible Bosses 2
2014
as Derelict (uncredited)
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a ha...

Apartment Troubles
2014
Two codependent roommates, on the verge of eviction, flee New York for the promise of sunshine in Los Angeles where their friendship is tested by a ch...

Michelangelo and Lincoln: History Cops
2014
as Lincoln (voice)
A trailer for the fictional television series History Cops.

22 Jump Street
2014
as 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local co...

The Lego Movie
2014
as Abraham Lincoln (voice)
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from ...

Run & Jump
2014
as Ted
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the whi...

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013
as Chester V (voice)
After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Ches...

Nebraska
2013
as David Grant
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar s...

Life of Crime
2013
as Marshall Taylor
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the...

Grown Ups 2
2013
as Male Cheerleader (uncredited)
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons ...

Coffin Dodgers
2013
as Voice
A group of misfit grumps get into Animal House-style trouble at a cozy suburban retirement home.

The Watch
2012
as Sergeant Bressman
Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their ...

That's My Boy
2012
as Phil
While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for ...

Rock of Ages
2012
as Mitch Miley
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
The Immigrant
2012
as Will
After being deported back to his native Canada, once-famous comedian Bob London attempts a Hollywood comeback by enlisting human smugglers to sneak hi...

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
2012
as Allan Bishopman
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011
as Glenn
A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
as MacGruber
Enjoy some of the bet sketches from SNL's 35th season including Will Forte as MacGruber, Kenan Thompson's Deandre Cole in What Up With That?, Fred Arm...
Audio Tour
2011
When an ordinary guy accidentally leaves a museum with his audio tour device, he gets a lot more than an art history lesson.

The Women of SNL
2010
as Greg Allman / Various (archive footage)
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.

MacGruber
2010
as MacGruber
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and b...

MacGruber
2010
Writer
Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and b...

Skott & Behr
2010

Saturday Night
2010
as Self
With unprecedented access to the behind the scenes process of the writers, actors and producers, Franco and his crew document what it takes to create ...

The Slammin' Salmon
2009
as Horace the Lone Diner
The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which...

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009
as Subject #72
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is le...

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2009
as Joe Towne (voice)
Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But wh...

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
2009
as Various (archive footage)
Amy Poehler's best Saturday Night Live sketches and performances.

Fanboys
2009
as THX Security Guard #4
In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace...

Extreme Movie
2008
Writer
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.

The Young Person's Guide to History
2008
as Monsieur Bouffant (The Frenchman)
A two-part special from the creators of Saul of the Mole Men.

Baby Mama
2008
as Scott
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate...

The Brothers Solomon
2007
as Dean Solomon
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.

The Brothers Solomon
2007
Writer
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes
2006
as Self
There's no stopping this up and coming comedian—even if you take away his acoustic guitar, synthesizer, foot bells and miniature drums! The DVD contai...

Beerfest
2006
as Otto
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing...

Around the World in 80 Days
2004
as Young Bobby
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.

Ghost World
2001
as (uncredited)
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric...

Coyote vs. Acme
N/A
as Kevin Avery
After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the ...