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).
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coyote vs. Acme (2026) | Kevin Avery | - | - |
| 2 | Thelma the Unicorn (2024) | Otis (voice) | - | - |
| 3 | Will & Harper (2024) | Self | 8.3 | |
| 4 | Strays (2023) | Doug | 6.1 | |
| 5 | Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) | Gordon Lighthouse (voice) | 6.3 | |
| 6 | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) | Ben Scotti | 7.4 | |
| 7 | Studio 666 (2022) | Darren Sandelbaum | 5.4 | |
| 8 | Drunk Bus (2021) | Fred | 8 | |
| 9 | America: The Motion Picture (2021) | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 5.7 | |
| 10 | The Willoughbys (2020) | Tim Willoughby (voice) | 6.6 | |
| 11 | Scoob! (2020) | Shaggy Rogers (voice) | 6.4 | |
| 12 | Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020) | Self | 7 | |
| 13 | Extra Ordinary (2019) | Christian Winter | 6.3 | |
| 14 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 7.1 | |
| 15 | Good Boys (2019) | Max's Dad | 7.4 | |
| 16 | Booksmart (2019) | Doug | 7.5 | |
| 17 | The Laundromat (2019) | Doomed Gringo #1 | 6.8 | |
| 18 | Good Boys (2019) | Max's Dad | 7.6 | |
| 19 | A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) | Doug Kenney | 7.6 | |
| 20 | Tour de Pharmacy (2017) | French Gendarme | 7.6 | |
| 21 | Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special (2017) | Michael Fulton | 4.5 | |
| 22 | Keanu (2016) | Hulka | 6.7 | |
| 23 | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) | Bagpipe Player | 7.4 | |
| 24 | She's Funny That Way (2015) | Joshua Fleet | 6.2 | |
| 25 | Don Verdean (2015) | Pastor Fontaine | 6 | |
| 26 | 7 Days in Hell (2015) | Sandy Pickard | 7.2 | |
| 27 | Staten Island Summer (2015) | Griffith | 4.8 | |
| 28 | The Ridiculous 6 (2015) | Will Patch | 5.3 | |
| 29 | Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) | Derelict (uncredited) | 6.6 | |
| 30 | Apartment Troubles (2014) | - | - | - |
| 31 | Run & Jump (2014) | Ted | 6.5 | |
| 32 | 22 Jump Street (2014) | 'Previously' Narrator / Football Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | 7 | |
| 33 | The Lego Movie (2014) Top 100 by FilmGator | Abraham Lincoln (voice) | 7.9 | |
| 34 | Life of Crime (2013) | Marshall Taylor | 5.6 | |
| 35 | Nebraska (2013) Oscars 2014 | David Grant | 7.8 | |
| 36 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) | Chester V (voice) | 6.7 | |
| 37 | Grown Ups 2 (2013) | Male Cheerleader (uncredited) | 6.1 | |
| 38 | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) | Allan Bishopman | 1 | |
| 39 | Rock of Ages (2012) | Mitch Miley | 6.6 | |
| 40 | The Watch (2012) | Sergeant Bressman | 5.9 | |
| 41 | That's My Boy (2012) | Phil | 5.5 | |
| 42 | A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011) | Glenn | 6.8 | |
| 43 | The Women of SNL (2010) | Greg Allman / Various (archive footage) | - | - |
| 44 | Saturday Night (2010) | Self | 7 | |
| 45 | MacGruber (2010) | Director / Writer | 5.9 | |
| 46 | Fanboys (2009) | THX Security Guard #4 | 6.7 | |
| 47 | The Slammin' Salmon (2009) | Horace the Lone Diner | 6.3 | |
| 48 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | Joe Towne (voice) | 7.3 | |
| 49 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler (2009) | Various (archive footage) | - | - |
| 50 | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) | Subject #72 | 6 | |
| 51 | Extreme Movie (2008) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 52 | Baby Mama (2008) | Scott | 6 | |
| 53 | The Brothers Solomon (2007) | Director / Writer | 4.7 | |
| 54 | Beerfest (2006) | Otto | 5.9 | |
| 55 | Around the World in 80 Days (2004) | Young Bobby | 5.9 | |
| 56 | Ghost World (2001) Oscars 2002 | (uncredited) | 7.2 |
