Will Forte Net Worth 2024

What is Will Forte’s Net Worth and Salary?

Will Forte is an actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter who has a net worth of $14 million. Will Forte is finest identified for being a forged member on “Saturday Night Live” from 2002 to 2010. Later, he earned popularity of creating and starring on the Fox sitcom “The Last Man on Earth.” Forte has additionally starred in such comedy movies as “MacGruber,” “Nebraska,” “She’s Funny That Way,” and “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” and has lent his voice to the animated films “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “The Lego Movie,” and “The Willoughbys.”

Early Life and Career Beginnings

Will Forte was born as Orville Willis Forte IV on June 17, 1970 in Alameda, California. His father, Orville Forte III, was a monetary dealer, whereas his mom, Patricia, was an artist and former schoolteacher. Forte was raised in Moraga earlier than transferring along with his family to Lafayette when he was 13. Developing a ardour for comedy at an early age, he idolized such comedians as Steve Martin and Peter Sellers, and infrequently performed pranks on his mother and father. However, he initially wished to pursue soccer as his profession. Forte went to Acalanes High School, the place he was a member of each the varsity soccer and swim groups. He subsequently enrolled at UCLA, from which he graduated with a BA in historical past.

Planning to observe within the footsteps of his father, Forte turned a monetary dealer at Smith Barney Shearson in Beverly Hills following his commencement from UCLA. He described his time there as “depressing,” nonetheless, and determined to vary his profession path to pursue comedy and writing. Consequently, Forte began taking courses with the improvisational sketch comedy troupe the Groundlings, whereas he additionally tutored kids to make a residing. He went on to create the comedian e book “101 Things to Definitely Not Do If You Want to Get a Chick,” which resulted in his first skilled job, writing for “The Jenny McCarthy Show.” Following this, he labored for 9 months as a author on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” Forte then returned to Los Angeles to carry out with the Groundlings’ Main Company. He turned a author on the failed sitcoms “The Army Show” and “Action,” earlier than touchdown writing roles on the profitable sitcoms “third Rock from the Sun” and “That ’70s Show.”

“Saturday Night Live”

While performing with the Groundlings in 2001, Forte was noticed by “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, and was invited to audition for the present. Although he was supplied a spot on “SNL,” Forte declined it in favor of the monetary stability of engaged on “That ’70s Show.” However, he finally realized he had made a mistake, and joined the forged the next yr after Will Ferrell left the present. Forte struggled early on, typically succumbing to stage fright and feeling uncomfortable within the roles he was given, together with President George W. Bush. It received so unhealthy that he was almost fired following his third season. Fortunately, he finally settled in and have become a well-liked performer on the present.

During his tenure on “SNL,” Forte was well-known for enjoying such oddball characters as Jeff Montgomery, Tim Calhoun, Greg Stink, and the Falconer. He additionally did a number of superstar impressions, together with ones of Peyton Manning, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, Harry Reid, John Edward, Chad Lowe, and David Petraeus. Forte’s best-known character, nonetheless, was MacGruber, a particular operations agent who continually turns into distracted by private points whereas making an attempt to disarm a ticking time bomb. The reputation of the sketch led to a characteristic movie in 2010, the yr Forte left “SNL.”

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Further Television Career

Following “SNL,” Forte had a recurring position on the NBC sitcom “30 Rock” because the cross-dressing Paul L’astnamé. He subsequently appeared in episodes of “How I Met Your Mother,” “Parks and Recreation,” and “Up All Night,” and had voice roles on numerous animated sequence together with “Sit Down, Shut Up,” “The Cleveland Show,” “American Dad!,” and “Allen Gregory.” In 2012, Forte started voicing characters on two widespread Disney XD animated sequence, “Gravity Falls” and “Lab Rats.” He went on to lend his voice to a number of different animated exhibits comparable to “Bob’s Burgers,” “The Awesomes,” “The Simpsons,” “Moonbeam City,” “Alien News Desk,” “The Great North,” “No Activity,” and “HouseBroken.”

Forte started his most acclaimed post-“SNL” position in 2015, when he began taking part in the primary position of Philip Tandy “Phil” Miller on the post-apocalyptic comedy sequence “The Last Man on Earth.” He additionally created, wrote, and government produced the present. For his work, he earned three Emmy Award nominations: two for his performing and one for his writing. Forte’s different credit have included the tv movies “7 Days in Hell” and “Tour de Pharmacy,” and the streaming sequence “Flipped,” “Sweet Tooth,” and “MacGruber.”

Film Career

Forte made his characteristic movie debut in 2004, taking part in Young Bobby within the remake of “Around the World in 80 Days.” He was subsequent in “Beerfest” in 2006. The following yr, he had his first main position starring reverse Will Arnett in “The Brothers Solomon,” which he additionally wrote. Forte adopted this with supporting roles in such comedies as “Baby Mama,” “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” and “Fanboys.” In 2009, he voiced the character of Joe Towne within the animated movie “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” and the subsequent yr, reprised his “SNL” position of MacGruber in a big-screen adaptation of the comedy sketch. Forte went on to seem in quite a few different comedy movies, together with “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,” “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie,” “Rock of Ages,” “That’s My Boy,” and “The Watch.”

In 2013, Forte had his first dramatic position within the romance movie “Run & Jump.” The similar yr, he was in “Life of Crime,” and gave a critically acclaimed efficiency in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska,” taking part in the son of Bruce Dern’s character. In 2014, Forte voiced Abraham Lincoln within the animated comedy “The Lego Movie,” and had a starring position in Peter Bogdanovich’s screwball comedy “She’s Funny That Way.” Among Forte’s myriad different credit are “Don Verdean,” “Staten Island Summer,” “The Ridiculous 6,” “Keanu,” “A Futile and Stupid Gesture,” “Extra Ordinary,” “Booksmart,” “Good Boys,” “The Willoughbys,” and “Scoob!”

Personal Life

In 2015, Forte dated January Jones, his costar from “The Last Man on Earth.” A number of years later, he met Olivia Modling, whom he subsequently married. The couple had a daughter named Zoe in February of 2021.

Real Estate

Two weeks earlier than being employed by SNL, Will purchased a bungalow in Santa Monica, California for $850,000. The SNL job pressured him to up and transfer to New York, so he barely lived in the home for round a decade. In September 2020 he listed this dwelling on the market for $2.5 million.

In January 2020 Will spent $6.25 million on an oceanfront dwelling in Carmel Highlands, California.