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.
Movie | The Prince of Fashion | 2025 | |
Movie | You’re Cordially Invited | 2025 | |
Movie | Fruitcake | Sandy Jenkins | 2025 |
Movie | Larry's Kidney | 2025 | |
Movie | Untitled The Legend of Cocaine Island Remake | 2025 | |
Movie | American Huckster | Chuck Blazer | 2025 |
Movie | Untitled eSports Project | 2024 | |
Movie | Despicable Me 4 | Maxime Le Mal (voice) | 2024-06-27 |
Movie | Quiz Lady | Terry McTeer | 2023-09-09 |
Movie | Strays | Reggie (voice) | 2023-08-17 |
Movie | Barbie | Mattel CEO | 2023-07-19 |
Movie | The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Unknown | 2023 |
Movie | Spirited | Present | 2022-11-10 |
Movie | Pickled | Self | 2022-11-17 |
Series | The Shrink Next Door | Marty Markowitz | 2021-11-11 |
Series | Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil | Self | 2021-03-23 |
Movie | Feeding America Comedy Festival | Self | 2020-05-10 |
Movie | David | Therapist | 2020-09-11 |
Movie | Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga | Lars Erickssong | 2020-06-26 |
Movie | VOMO: Vote or Miss Out | Self | 2020-09-14 |
Movie | 537 Votes | George W. Bush (archive footage) | 2020-10-21 |
Series | The Holiday Movies That Made Us | Self (archive footage) | 2020-12-01 |
Movie | Impractical Jokers: The Movie | Miami Restaurant Guy #4 | 2020-02-21 |
Movie | Downhill | Pete Stanton | 2020-02-06 |
Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" | Tom Willis | 2019-05-22 |
Movie | Zeroville | Rondell | 2019-09-19 |
Movie | Drunk Parents | Bum | 2019-02-08 |
Movie | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | President Business / Dad | 2019-02-06 |
Movie | The 2019 Rose Parade with Cord & Tish | Cord Hosenbeck | 2019-01-01 |
Movie | Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Will Ferrell | 2019-09-20 |
Movie | Holmes & Watson | Sherlock Holmes | 2018-12-25 |
Movie | The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish | Cord Hosenbeck | 2018-01-01 |
Movie | The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish! | Cord Hosenbeck | 2018-05-19 |
Movie | The House | Scott Johansen/The Butcher | 2017-06-29 |
Movie | Daddy's Home 2 | Brad | 2017-11-09 |
Series | No Activity | Adrian | 2017-11-11 |
Movie | Zoolander 2 | Jacobim Mugatu | 2016-02-06 |
Movie | A.C. Green: Iron Virgin | Narrator | 2016-05-13 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special | Self / Alex Trebek / Marty Culp | 2015-02-15 |
Series | Hot Ones | Self | 2015-03-12 |
Series | The Spoils Before Dying | Eric Jonrosh | 2015-07-08 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | Ferrell Takes the Field | Himself | 2015-09-12 |
Movie | A Deadly Adoption | Robert Benson | 2015-06-20 |
Movie | Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber | Ron Burgundy | 2015-03-30 |
Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self | 2015-03-23 |
Movie | Get Hard | James King | 2015-03-26 |
Movie | Daddy's Home | Brad Whitaker | 2015-12-25 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | 2014-02-17 |
Series | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Self | 2014-04-27 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Series | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self | 2014-02-06 |
Movie | The Lego Movie | Lord Business / President Business / The Man Upstairs | 2014-02-06 |
Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Ron Burgundy | 2014-02-25 |
Series | The Spoils of Babylon | Eric Jonrosh | 2014-01-09 |
Series | Welcome to Sweden | Will Ferrell | 2014-03-21 |
Series | Drunk History | Roald Dahl | 2013-07-09 |
Movie | The Internship | Kevin (uncredited) | 2013-06-07 |
Movie | Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | Ron Burgundy | 2013-12-18 |
Series | Inside Comedy | Self | 2012-01-26 |
Movie | The Campaign | Cam Brady | 2012-08-09 |
Series | Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Self | 2012-07-19 |
Movie | Casa de Mi Padre | Armando Alvarez | 2012-03-15 |
Movie | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | Damien Weebs | 2012-03-02 |
Movie | Everything Must Go | Nick Halsey | 2011-05-13 |
Movie | The Love We Make | Self | 2011-09-10 |
Series | Billy on the Street | Himself | 2011-12-18 |
Movie | Fight for Your Right Revisited | Ad-Rock (B-Boys 2) | 2011-04-22 |
Movie | Megamind: The Button of Doom | Megamind (voice) | 2011-02-25 |
Movie | John and Will's Animal Choices | Will | 2011-01-28 |
Movie | Star Wars Spoofs | Himself | 2011-01-01 |
Movie | The Other Guys | Detective Allen Gamble | 2010-08-06 |
Movie | Megamind | Megamind (voice) | 2010-10-28 |
Series | Conan | Ron Burgundy | 2010-11-08 |
Movie | The Women of SNL | Ted Nettters / Craig Buchanan / Alex Trebek / Various (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
Series | Funny or Die Presents | Abraham Lincoln | 2010-02-15 |
Movie | Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education | Self | 2010-10-21 |
Movie | Presidential Reunion | George W. Bush | 2010-03-02 |
Series | DreamWorks Spooky Stories | 2009-10-28 | |
Movie | SpongeBob's Truth or Square | Self | 2009-11-06 |
Movie | Bat Fight with Will Ferrell | 2009-02-01 | |
Movie | Land of the Lost | Dr. Rick Marshall | 2009-06-05 |
Movie | The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard | McDermott (uncredited) | 2009-05-29 |
Movie | Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush | George W. Bush | 2009-03-14 |
Series | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2009-03-02 |
Series | Eastbound & Down | Ashley Schaeffer | 2009-02-15 |
Movie | Semi-Pro | Jackie Moon | 2008-02-28 |
Movie | Step Brothers | Brennan Huff | 2008-07-25 |
Series | Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis | Self | 2008-01-04 |
Movie | Blades of Glory | Chazz Michael Michaels | 2007-03-30 |
Movie | Green Team | Arnold Darkshner | 2007-11-19 |
Movie | The Procedure | Bob | 2007-08-01 |
Movie | Good Cop, Baby Cop | Angel | 2007-06-30 |
Movie | The Landlord | Tenant | 2007-04-17 |
Series | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Donald Mahanahan | 2007-02-11 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Series | The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show | Unknown | 2007-01-17 |
Series | Man vs. Wild | Himself | 2006-10-27 |
Movie | Winter Passing | Corbit | 2006-02-07 |
Movie | Curious George | Ted (Man with the Yellow Hat) (voice) | 2006-02-10 |
Movie | Stranger Than Fiction | Harold Crick | 2006-09-09 |
Series | The Megan Mullally Show | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
Series | 30 Rock | Shane Hunter | 2006-10-11 |
Series | Curious George | Unknown | 2006-09-04 |
Series | The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies | 2006-05-23 | |
Movie | Ricky Bobby: Sports Century | Ricky Bobby (archive footage) | 2006-07-17 |
Movie | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Ricky Bobby | 2006-08-04 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Jimmy Fallon | 2005-01-25 | |
Series | The Reichen Show | Self | 2005-11-11 |
Movie | Earth to America | George W. Bush | 2005-11-20 |
Movie | The Producers | Franz Liebkind | 2005-12-25 |
Movie | The Wendell Baker Story | Dave | 2005-08-03 |
Movie | Wedding Crashers | Chazz Reinhold (uncredited) | 2005-07-13 |
Movie | Kicking & Screaming | Phil Weston | 2005-05-13 |
Movie | Bewitched | Jack Wyatt | 2005-06-21 |
Series | The Office | Deangelo Vickers | 2005-03-24 |
Movie | Melinda and Melinda | Hobie | 2004-10-29 |
Movie | Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party | Self | 2004-11-17 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell - Volume 2 | 2004-09-07 | |
Movie | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Ron Burgundy | 2004-06-28 |
Series | Best Week Ever | Unknown | 2004-01-23 |
Movie | Starsky & Hutch | Big Earl (uncredited) | 2004-03-05 |
Movie | Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie | Ron Burgundy | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Elf | Buddy | 2003-10-09 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Kattan | Himself | 2003-09-07 |
Movie | Old School: Orientation | Himself | 2003-06-10 |
Movie | MTV Reloaded | The Architect | 2003-05-13 |
Movie | Old School | Frank | 2003-02-21 |
Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003-09-08 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Unknown | 2002-06-08 |
Movie | Boat Trip | Michael, Brian's Boyfriend (uncredited) | 2002-10-01 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell | Himself / Various Characters (archive footage) | 2002-09-28 |
Series | HypaSpace | Self | 2002-05-13 |
Movie | NBC 75th Anniversary Special | Self | 2002-05-05 |
Series | The Guardian | Unknown | 2001-09-25 |
Series | The Oblongs | Bob Oblong (voice) | 2001-04-01 |
Movie | The Concert for New York City | Self | 2001-10-20 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Molly Shannon | Self | 2001-04-15 |
Movie | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly | 2001-08-22 |
Movie | Zoolander | Jacobim Mugatu | 2001-09-28 |
Movie | Drowning Mona | Cubby | 2000-03-03 |
Movie | The Ladies Man | Lance DeLune | 2000-10-13 |
Series | The Early Show | Self | 1999-11-01 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Self - Guest | 1999-03-30 |
Movie | Superstar | Sky Corrigan / Jesus | 1999-10-08 |
Movie | The Suburbans | Gil | 1999-10-29 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Self | 1999-09-25 |
Movie | Dick | Bob Woodward | 1999-08-04 |
Series | Strangers with Candy | Bob Whitely | 1999-04-07 |
Movie | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Mustafa | 1999-06-08 |
Series | Family Guy | Fat Greek Guy / Miles 'Chatterbox' Musket (voice) | 1999-01-31 |
Series | TRL | Unknown | 1998-09-14 |
Movie | A Night at the Roxbury | Steve Butabi | 1998-10-01 |
Movie | The Thin Pink Line | Darren Clark | 1998-10-07 |
Series | Hercules | Geryon (voice) | 1998-08-31 |
Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman | Self / Nancy Reagan / Various Characters | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Mustafa | 1997-05-02 |
Series | Cow and Chicken | Unknown | 1997-09-16 |
Movie | Men Seeking Women | Al | 1997-03-08 |
Movie | Criminal Hearts | Newscaster (uncredited) | 1996-02-15 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Series | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Mamet the Moocher (voice) | 1995-03-12 |
Movie | A Bucket of Blood | 1995-09-12 | |
Series | On Our Own | Construction Worker | 1994-09-13 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993-09-13 |
Series | WWE Raw | Unknown | 1993-01-11 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self | 1992-05-25 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
Series | Kids' Choice Awards | Self | 1987-01-18 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host / Various | 1975-10-11 |
Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |
Series | Today | Self | 1952-01-14 |