Will Ferrell Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name John William Ferrell
Nationality American
Birth July 16, 1967 (Irvine, California – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Son of Righteous Brothers keyboard player Lee Ferrell.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell was, from 1995 to 2002, one of the pillars of the comedy show Saturday Night Live . He became famous thanks to his improvisations and his imitations of George W. Bush, Charlton Heston and James Lipton, the host of the talk show Actor’s Studio . It is always in the register of comedy that he breaks through in the cinema. Opposite Mike Myers in Austin Powers (1997) and its sequel Austin Powers – The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), he headlined Night at the Roxbury , a John Fortenberry film that he co-wrote.

But it is in contact with the duo Ben Stiller / Owen Wilson that his humor particularly hits the mark. Indulging in a hilarious “parade challenge” in Zoolander (2001) and a burlesque parlor session in Starsky and Hutch (2004), this actor, not afraid of ridicule, walks his slightly bewildered face in more discreet successes like Back to school (2003) and Elfe (id.). Ready to don all the outfits, he adopts a typically seventies look for the character of Ron Burgundy, star television news presenter, and wears the helmet of Ricky Bobby: king of the circuit in 2005. From time to time abandoning his “delusions” cinematographic films, he was called upon to shoot for Woody Allen ( Melinda and Melinda , 2004), to play opposite Nicole Kidman in the adaptation of the television series My Beloved Witch (2005) and to know The Incredible Fate of Harold Crick (2006) edited by Marc Forster . He returned to comedy, this time mixed with skating with Les Rois du patin (2007) and basketball in Semi-Pro (2008). An actor who is not killed by ridicule, he forms a duo for the worst and for the laughs in Frangins despite them (2008), with John C. Reilly . In 2009, he was the nerdy paleontologist in the (Almost) Lost World directed by Brad Silberling . The following year, he interfered in the world of the police and played a failed cop in Very Bad Cops , before playing the bad guys in Megamind

, an animated film for which he lends his voice.