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Will Ferrell

  • Birthplace: Irvine, California, USA
  • Birthday: July 16, 1967

Television viewers grew to love comic actor and writer Will Ferrell through the stable of popular characters he created during his tenure on the perennial "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ). But after seven years of playing an earnest male cheerleader, an addled President George W. Bush, and a passionate cowbell player, Ferrell moved on to the big screen where he carved out a niche with leading roles as immature, but likable everymen or as outrageous, larger-than-life supporting characters in ensemble comedies. Ferrell used his inher…more

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Credits

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Career Milestones

  • 2012

    Starred in the Spanish-language American comedy "Case de Mi Padre"

  • 2011

    Cast in a four-episode arc on NBC's "The Office" as an inept branch manager from the home office

  • 2010

    Co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in "The Other Guys," about two mismatched New York City detectives

  • 2010

    Played the film's main protagonist in the animated comedy "Megamind"

  • 2009

    Co-wrote and co-produced (with Adam McKay) the HBO series "East Bound and Down," starring Danny McBride

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Awards

  • 2007

    MTV Movie Award: Best Kiss

  • American Comedy Award: Funniest Male Performer in a TV Special

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