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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 16, 1967
Place of Birth
Irvine, California, USA
Also Known As
- John William "Will" Ferrell
- John William Ferrell
- William Ferrell
Will Ferrell
3.2 Popularity
Biography
John William Ferrell (born July 16, 1967)is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for his leading man roles in comedy films and for his work as a television producer. Ferrell received various accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award, in addition to nomination for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. In 2011, Farrell was honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2015, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named the best comedian in British GQ. Ferrell established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he performed from 1995 to 2002, and has subsequently starred in a string of comedy films. After starring in the 2003 comedy film Old School, Ferrell became considered a member of the "Frat Pack", a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s, including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. He founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007 with his former writing partner, Adam McKay. Ferrell starred in comedy films such as A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Elf (2003), Anchorman (2004), Kicking & Screaming (2005), Talladega Nights (2006), Blades of Glory (2007), Step Brothers (2008), The Other Guys (2010), Get Hard (2015), and Barbie (2023). He has also taken dramatic roles in Stranger than Fiction (2006), Everything Must Go (2010), and Downhill (2020). He has voiced roles in Curious George (2006), Megamind (2010), The Lego Movie film franchise (2014–2019), and Despicable Me 4 (2024). He also starred in and produced the documentary Will & Harper (2024) with writer Harper Steele. Ferrell has received four Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a producer on the drama series Succession (2018–2023) and the specials Live in Front of a Studio Audience (2019–2022). He also produced the series I'm Sorry (2017–2019), the series Dead to Me (2019–2022), and the series Drunk History (2013–2019). For his work on Broadway, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Special Theatrical Event for his satirical portrayal of George W. Bush in You're Welcome America (2009).
Known For
6.3
Will Ferrell
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
0.0
Self
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
2025
6.7
Self
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
5.8
Jim
You're Cordially Invited
2025
7.7
Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
7.8
Self
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
8.5
Will Ferrell
The Charlie Puth Show
2024
7.3
Self
Will & Harper
2024
7.0
Maxime (voice)
Despicable Me 4
2024
6.7
Ron Burgundy
The Roast of Tom Brady
2024
Credits
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
as Will Ferrell
2025
6.3
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
as Self
2025
0.0
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
2025
6.7
You're Cordially Invited
as Jim
2025
5.8
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self
2025
7.7
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
as Self
2025
7.8
The Charlie Puth Show
as Will Ferrell
2024
8.5
Will & Harper
as Self
2024
7.3
Despicable Me 4
as Maxime (voice)
2024
7.0
The Roast of Tom Brady
as Ron Burgundy
2024
6.7
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
as Lou Adler
2024
5.8
Stupid Pet Tricks
as Ranger Jim
2024
3.5
Quiz Lady
as Terry McTeer
2023
6.7
Strays
as Reggie (voice)
2023
7.2
Barbie
as Mattel CEO
2023
6.9
SmartLess: On the Road
2023
8.0
Pickled
as Self
2022
7.0
Spirited
as Present
2022
6.9
New Heights
as Self
2022
0.0
Welcome to Wrexham
as Self
2022
7.8
The Shrink Next Door
as Martin 'Marty' Markowitz
2021
6.9
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil
as Self
2021
6.7
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.2
537 Votes
as George W. Bush (archive footage)
2020
7.1
VOMO: Vote or Miss Out
as Self
2020
10.0
David
as Therapist
2020
7.1
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
as Lars Erickssong
2020
6.4
Feeding America Comedy Festival
as Self
2020
5.8
Impractical Jokers: The Movie
as Miami Restaurant Guy #4
2020
6.6
Downhill
as Pete Stanton
2020
5.2
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
as Will Ferrell
2019
5.9
Zeroville
as Rondell
2019
5.1
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
2019
6.3
The Boys
as Will Ferrell as Coach Brink
2019
8.4
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Tom Willis
2019
6.6
🎬
We Are LAFC
as Self
2019
0.0
Drunk Parents
as Bum
2019
4.6
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
as President Business / Dad
2019
6.7
The 2019 Rose Parade with Cord & Tish
as Cord Hosenbeck
2019
6.2
Holmes & Watson
as Sherlock Holmes
2018
4.3
Elf: Buddy's Sing and Cheer Along Edition
as Buddy
2018
0.0
The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!
as Cord Hosenbeck
2018
6.1
🎬
Lie Detector
as Self
2018
5.5
The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish
as Cord Hosenbeck
2018
5.9
No Activity
as Adrian
2017
6.8
Daddy's Home 2
as Brad
2017
6.3
The House
as Scott Johansen/The Butcher
2017
5.6
A.C. Green: Iron Virgin
as Narrator
2016
0.0
Zoolander 2
as Jacobim Mugatu
2016
4.9
Daddy's Home
as Brad Whitaker
2015
6.3
Ferrell Takes the Field
as Himself
2015
6.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Spoils Before Dying
as Eric Jonrosh
2015
6.0
A Deadly Adoption
as Robert Benson
2015
4.9
Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber
as Ron Burgundy
2015
6.8
Get Hard
as James King
2015
6.0
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
5.3
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self
2015
5.3
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
7.2
The Men in Blazers Show
as Self
2014
6.5
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self
2014
7.8
Welcome to Sweden
as Will Ferrell
2014
6.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Ron Burgundy
2014
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
The Lego Movie
as Lord Business / President Business / The Man Upstairs
2014
7.4
The Spoils of Babylon
as Eric Jonrosh
2014
6.2
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as Ron Burgundy
2013
6.1
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
as Self - Guest
2013
5.2
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
as President George W. Bush
2013
5.2
Drunk History
as Roald Dahl
2013
6.8
The Internship
as Kevin (uncredited)
2013
6.2
The Campaign
as Cam Brady
2012
5.8
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
as Self
2012
7.1
Casa de Mi Padre
as Armando Alvarez
2012
5.3
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
as Damien Weebs
2012
5.5
Inside Comedy
as Self
2012
6.5
Billy on the Street
as Self
2011
6.6
The Love We Make
as Self
2011
7.2
Everything Must Go
as Nick Halsey
2011
6.2
Fight for Your Right Revisited
as Ad-Rock (B-Boys 2)
2011
6.5
Megamind: The Button of Doom
as Megamind (voice)
2011
6.7
John and Will's Animal Choices
as Will
2011
2.0
Star Wars Spoofs
as Himself
2011
7.9
Conan
as Ron Burgundy
2010
7.1
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
The Women of SNL
as Ted Nettters / Craig Buchanan / Alex Trebek / Various (archive footage)
2010
6.0
Megamind
as Megamind (voice)
2010
7.0
The Other Guys
as Detective Allen Gamble
2010
6.3
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell - Volume 3
2010
9.0
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
as Self
2010
0.0
Presidential Reunion
as George W. Bush
2010
6.1
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
as (archive footage)
2009
7.4
SpongeBob's Truth or Square
as Self
2009
7.1
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Land of the Lost
as Dr. Rick Marshall
2009
5.4
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
as McDermott (uncredited)
2009
5.4
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush
as George W. Bush
2009
6.5
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2009
6.1
Eastbound & Down
as Ashley Schaeffer
2009
7.4
🎬
Bat Fight with Will Ferrell
2009
5.8
Step Brothers
as Brennan Huff
2008
6.6
Semi-Pro
as Jackie Moon
2008
5.6
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
as Self
2008
7.5
Green Team
as Arnold Darkshner
2007
5.8
🎬
The Procedure
as Bob
2007
4.6
Good Cop, Baby Cop
as Angel
2007
6.1
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self
2007
0.0
The Landlord
as Tenant
2007
6.5
Blades of Glory
as Chazz Michael Michaels
2007
6.1
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Donald Mahanahan
2007
7.4
🎬
The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show
2007
5.3
Man vs. Wild
as Self
2006
7.0
30 Rock
as Shane Hunter
2006
7.5
The Megan Mullally Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.2
Stranger Than Fiction
as Harold Crick
2006
7.3
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
as Ricky Bobby
2006
6.4
🎬
Ricky Bobby: Sports Century
as Ricky Bobby (archive footage)
2006
7.5
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
2006
6.7
Curious George
as Ted (Man with the Yellow Hat) (voice)
2006
6.5
Winter Passing
as Corbit
2006
6.1
The Producers
as Franz Liebkind
2005
6.2
Earth to America
as George W. Bush
2005
8.0
The Reichen Show
as Self
2005
4.8
The Wendell Baker Story
as Dave
2005
5.0
Wedding Crashers
as Chazz Reinhold (uncredited)
2005
6.5
Bewitched
as Jack Wyatt
2005
5.1
Kicking & Screaming
as Phil Weston
2005
5.8
The Office
as Deangelo Vickers
2005
8.6
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Jimmy Fallon
2005
7.3
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
as Ron Burgundy
2004
6.0
Melinda and Melinda
as Hobie
2004
6.2
Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party
as Self
2004
6.1
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell - Volume 2
2004
7.1
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
as Ron Burgundy
2004
6.7
Starsky & Hutch
as Big Earl (uncredited)
2004
5.8
Best Week Ever
2004
5.6
Elf
as Buddy
2003
6.7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
as Self
2003
6.9
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Kattan
as Himself
2003
8.5
Comedy Central Roasts
as Self
2003
7.0
🎬
Old School: Orientation
as Himself
2003
7.3
MTV Reloaded
as The Architect
2003
7.3
Old School
as Frank
2003
6.6
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
I Spy
as President George W. Bush (voice) (uncredited)
2002
5.4
Boat Trip
as Michael, Brian's Boyfriend (uncredited)
2002
5.3
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
as Self / Various Characters (archive footage)
2002
7.7
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
as Self
2002
6.1
🎬
HypaSpace
as Self
2002
4.0
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
as Self
2002
0.0
The Concert for New York City
as Self
2001
4.8
Zoolander
as Mugatu
2001
6.2
The Guardian
as Attorney Larry Flood
2001
6.9
Undeclared
as Dave
2001
7.4
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
as Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly
2001
6.4
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Molly Shannon
as Self
2001
2.0
The Oblongs
as Bob Oblong (voice)
2001
7.3
The Ladies Man
as Lance DeLune
2000
5.3
Drowning Mona
as Cubby
2000
5.4
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
The Suburbans
as Gil
1999
3.8
Superstar
as Sky Corrigan / Jesus
1999
5.3
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
1999
6.8
Dick
as Bob Woodward
1999
5.9
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
as Mustafa
1999
6.3
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
7.7
Strangers with Candy
as Bob Whitely
1999
7.6
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
as Self - Guest
1999
4.6
Family Guy
as The Black Knight (voice)
1999
7.4
Family Guy
as Fat Greek Guy / Miles 'Chatterbox' Musket (voice)
1999
7.4
The Thin Pink Line
as Darren Clark
1998
4.4
A Night at the Roxbury
as Steve Butabi
1998
6.5
TRL
1998
5.1
Hercules
as Geryon (voice)
1998
6.9
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Troy
1998
7.7
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Self / Nancy Reagan / Various Characters
1998
7.7
Cow and Chicken
1997
7.1
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as Mustafa
1997
6.6
Men Seeking Women
as Al
1997
4.4
King of the Hill
as Coach Lucas (voice)
1997
7.4
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Criminal Hearts
as Newscaster (uncredited)
1996
4.5
A Bucket of Blood
as Young Man
1995
4.9
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Mamet the Moocher (voice)
1995
6.0
On Our Own
as Construction Worker
1994
6.0
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Raw
1993
6.8
MTV Movie & TV Awards
as Self / Presenter
1992
8.1
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Kids' Choice Awards
as Self
1987
8.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
🎬
Playing POTUS
as Self
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Prince of Fashion
N/A
0.0
🎬
GOLF
as Lonnie 'The Hawk' Hawkins
N/A
0.0
🎬
Untitled The Legend of Cocaine Island Remake
N/A
0.0
🎬
Judgment Day
N/A
0.0
🎬
Street Justice
N/A
0.0
🎬
Tough Guys
N/A
0.0