Biography
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, California, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former Saturday Night Live repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to Saturday Night Live later. He has also appeared on several television programs, including Strangers with Candy, Grace Under Fire and Living Single during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family The Oblongs.
In 1995 he became a feature cast member at Saturday Night Live during the show's rapid re-casting. He was declared quite possibly the worst cast member ever during his first season. However, his talents of impersonations and range of characters shot him forward to making him arguably the greatest Saturday Night Live cast member ever. During his seven year run he is one of the few cast members to ever be nominated for an Emmy for a performance and played George W. Bush during the 2000 elections. He's appeared in every Saturday Night Live movie since his premiere on the show in 1995. In 2002 he left Saturday Night Live and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show. Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In 2000 he married and now lives in L.A.
Filmography
all 233
Movies 152
TV Shows 81
self 73
Producer 41
Voice 5
Narrator 1
Writer 1
Despicable Me 4 (2024)
Stupid Pet Tricks (2024)
In the Know (2024)
Will & Harper (2024)
A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special (2023)
May December (2023)
Quiz Lady (2023)
Strays (2023)
Barbie (2023)
Theater Camp (2023)
SmartLess: On the Road (2023)
Pickled (2022)
The Menu (2022)
Spirited (2022)
Welcome to Wrexham (2022)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022)
Am I Ok? (2022)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes (2021)
The Shrink Next Door (2021)
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil (2021)
The Holiday Movies That Made Us (2020)
537 Votes (2020)
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out (2020)
David (2020)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Feeding America Comedy Festival (2020)
Motherland: Fort Salem (2020)
Impractical Jokers: The Movie (2020)
Downhill (2020)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)
Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
Zeroville (2019)
Hustlers (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Booksmart (2019)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (2019)
Dead to Me (2019)
We Are LAFC (2019)
Drunk Parents (2019)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
The 2019 Rose Parade with Cord & Tish (2019)
Vice (2018)
Holmes & Watson (2018)
Succession (2018)
Ibiza (2018)
The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish! (2018)
LA to Vegas (2018)
The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish (2018)
No Activity (2017)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
The House (2017)
Oh Lucy! (2017)
Drake Sather: The Man Who Created Zoolander (2016)
A.C. Green: Iron Virgin (2016)
The Boss (2016)
Zoolander 2 (2016)
Daddy's Home (2015)
Ferrell Takes the Field (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
The Spoils Before Dying (2015)
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber (2015)
Get Hard (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Hot Ones (2015)
Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special (2015)
Bad Judge (2014)
The Men In Blazers Show (2014)
Welcome to Me (2014)
Tammy (2014)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
Welcome to Sweden (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
The Lego Movie (2014)
Off Camera with Sam Jones (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
The Spoils of Babylon (2014)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
@midnight with Chris Hardwick (2013)
Drunk History (2013)
The Internship (2013)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings (2012)
The Campaign (2012)
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012)
Casa de Mi Padre (2012)
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
Inside Comedy (2012)
Bachelorette (2012)
Billy on the Street (2011)
The Love We Make (2011)
Everything Must Go (2011)
Fight for Your Right Revisited (2011)
Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)
John and Will's Animal Choices (2011)
Star Wars Spoofs (2011)
Conan (2010)
The Women of SNL (2010)
Megamind (2010)
Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education (2010)
The Virginity Hit (2010)
Big Lake (2010)
The Other Guys (2010)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell - Volume 3 (2010)
Presidential Reunion (2010)
Funny or Die Presents (2010)
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas (2009)
SpongeBob's Truth or Square (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Land of the Lost (2009)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush (2009)
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009)
Eastbound & Down (2009)
Bat Fight with Will Ferrell (2009)
Prop 8: The Musical (2008)
Step Brothers (2008)
Semi-Pro (2008)
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (2008)
Green Team (2007)
Hot Rod (2007)
The Procedure (2007)
Good Cop, Baby Cop (2007)
The Landlord (2007)
Blades of Glory (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007)
The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show (2007)
Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2007)
Man vs. Wild (2006)
30 Rock (2006)
The Megan Mullally Show (2006)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
The One Show (2006)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Ricky Bobby: Sports Century (2006)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies (2006)
Curious George (2006)
Winter Passing (2006)
The Producers (2005)
Earth to America (2005)
The Reichen Show (2005)
The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Bewitched (2005)
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
The Office (2005)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Jimmy Fallon (2005)
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2004)
Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party (2004)
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell - Volume 2 (2004)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Christopher Walken (2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Best Week Ever (2004)
Elf (2003)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Kattan (2003)
Old School: Orientation (2003)
MTV Reloaded (2003)
Old School (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Reel Comedy (2002)
U-Pick Live (2002)
Boat Trip (2002)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell (2002)
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002)
HypaSpace (2002)
NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)
The Concert for New York City (2001)
Zoolander (2001)
The Guardian (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Molly Shannon (2001)
The Oblongs (2001)
The Ladies Man (2000)
Endangered Feces - The Very Worst of The Tom Green Show (2000)
Drowning Mona (2000)
The Early Show (1999)
The Suburbans (1999)
Superstar (1999)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
Dick (1999)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Strangers with Candy (1999)
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (1999)
Tom Green Show: Road Kill (1999)
Family Guy (1999)
The Thin Pink Line (1998)
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
TRL (1998)
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman (1998)
Cow and Chicken (1997)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Men Seeking Women (1997)
King of the Hill (1997)
The Daily Show (1996)
Criminal Hearts (1996)
A Bucket of Blood (1995)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
On Our Own (1994)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
WWE Raw (1993)
MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Kids' Choice Awards (1987)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
Golden Globe Awards (1944)
American Huckster
You’re Cordially Invited
Plus One
The Prince of Fashion
First Ladies
Fan Level Midnight: Devoted to the Office
Toni Erdmann
No Good Deed
Bad Blood
Untitled Disney Evil Stepsisters Film
King Dork
Larry's Kidney
Will
Madden
Untitled The Legend of Cocaine Island Remake
They're Lit, But Are They Bros?
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1967-07-16 (56 years old)
Birth NameJohn William Ferrell
Birth PlaceIrvine, United States of America
Height1.92-meter
SpouseViveca Paulin
ChildrenMagnus Ferrell, Mattias Ferrell, Axel Ferrell
SiblingsPatrick Ferrell
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJohn William "Will" Ferrell, John William Ferrell, Τζον Γουίλιαμ "Γούιλ" Φέρελ, Θα Ferrell, William Ferrell, 威爾法洛, 威尔·法瑞尔, וויל פארל, ויל פרל
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Primetime Emmy Award, MTV Comedic Genius Award
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