Fred Armisen
☼ Born on 4 December 1966, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
BiographyFereydun Robert Armisen is an American actor, comedian, and writer. After having begun his career as a musician for groups such as Trenchmouth and the Blue Man Group, he would get his big break as a comedy actor when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2002, having remained with the show until 2013. This led to Armisen collaborating with fellow SNL alum Bill Hader and Seth Meyers on the television series Documentary Now! (2015) for IFC, and would also collaborate with Carrie Brownstein on Portlandia (2011) for the same network. He is also known for his roles in various films and shows such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (2006), and Easy A (2010), alongside voice roles in The Looney Tunes Show (2011), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), and Final Space (2018), among others.
In the role of actor
The Contestant – TIFF 2023 (27/09/2023)
The participants of a late-1990s Japanese reality series look back on their experience in The Contestant. In 1998, Nasubi was chosen to participate in producer Toshio Tsuchiya‘s spinoff of his hit show Denpa Shonen, called Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes. Nasubi was forced to strip naked before being locked in a small apartment. His […]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (04/04/2023)
The Nintendo stars hit the big screen in a new animated adventure in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) are two Italian brothers running a plumbing business in Brooklyn. While trying to fix a broken water main, the Mario Bros. gets sucked into an old pipe in the sewers. […]
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks – Hot Docs 2022 (05/05/2022)
The members of the iconic and groundbreaking comedy troupe reminisce about their 40 year career in The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks. The Kids in the Hall were formed in the early 1980s when Calgary comedy duo Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney joined up with Toronto’s Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald to form a […]
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (16/10/2019)
Jay and Silent Bob once again try to stop the production of a film about themselves in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. While on trial for a routine drug violation, Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) accidentally sign away the rights to their name and likeness to Saban Films. They soon learn from […]
Live from New York! (01/05/2015)
The history of Saturday Night Live is told in Live from New York!. In 1975, novice producer Lorne Michaels created a late-night sketch comedy series on NBC described as a mix between 60 Minutes and Monty Python. Over the course of the next four decades, Saturday Night Live would evolve to become a cultural institution, […]