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Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen

Fred Armisen

ActingBorn December 4, 1966 (age 59)Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

Biography

Fereydun Robert Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, musician, and television writer. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, he co-created and co-starred in the IFC sketch comedy series Portlandia. He also co-created and starred in the mockumentary IFC series Documentary Now! and the Showtime comedy series Moonbase 8. Armisen was the bandleader and frequent drummer for the Late Night with Seth Meyers house band, the 8G Band from 2014 to 2024. He was a cast member on the late-night sketch comedy and variety series Saturday Night Live from 2002 to 2013. He voiced Speedy Gonzales on The Looney Tunes Show. He also works as a voice actor in films, such as The Smurfs (2011), The Smurfs 2 (2013), The House of Tomorrow, The Lego Ninjago Movie (both 2017), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Contestant (both 2023), Thelma the Unicorn (2024) and Fixed (2025). Armisen has acted in comedy films, including EuroTrip, Melvin Goes to Dinner, The Ex, and The Dictator. He is also notable for his guest-star appearances in television shows such as 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl, Broad City, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Difficult People, The Last Man on Earth, Toast of Tinseltown, Our Flag Means Death, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, and Barry. Armisen received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album for Standup for Drummers in 2019. He has also won two Peabody Awards, one in 2008 as part of the Saturday Night Live political satire cast and one in 2011 for Portlandia. From 2019 to 2022, he co-starred and served as writer and executive producer on the Spanish-language series Los Espookys, which he co-created. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fred Armisen, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026Movie
2026
Lorne

as Self

Movie
2025
Dear Shop Girl

as Landlord

Movie
2025Movie
2025
Fixed

as Fetch (voice)

Movie
2025Movie
2025TV
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
2025
Deli Boys

as Max Sugar

TV
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

as Self - SNL Cast Member 2002 - 2013

Movie
2024Movie
2024Movie
2024
Universal Basic Guys

as David (voice)

TV
2024
Never Mind

as Manager Cat

Movie
2024
Thelma the Unicorn

as Danny Stallion (voice)

Movie
2024
Unfrosted

as Mike Puntz

Movie
2024Movie
2024
Fallout

as DJ Carl

TV
2024
Resynator

as Self

Movie
2023
Melomaniac

as Self

Movie
2023
The Contestant

as Denpa Shonen Narrator (voice)

Movie
2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie

as Cranky Kong (voice)

Movie
2023
Royal Crackers

as Brent (voice)

TV
2023
Unstable

as Leslie

TV
2023
Digman!

as Dr. Sigmund Freud (voice)

TV
2023
Agent Elvis

as Charles Manson (voice)

TV
2023
Resurgence

as Record shopper 2

Movie
2022
Wednesday

as Uncle Fester

TV
2022
Clerks III

as Auditioner

Movie
2022Movie
2022
This Fool

as Richard Rowell

TV
2022
The Bubble

as Darren Eigen

Movie
2022TV
2022TV
2022
Toast of Tinseltown

as Russ Nightlife

TV
2021
Baking It

as Self

TV
2021
That's My Jam

as Self - Guest

TV
2021
Do, Re & Mi

as Juan Peacock (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Splendib / Bimbam (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Splendib / Kittentaur / Malandrew (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Malandrew (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Splendib / Message Bird / Teacher Birdtaur (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Splendib / Malandrew / Message Bird (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Message Bird (voice)

TV
2021
Centaurworld

as Splendib / Guard / Human Man (voice)

TV
2021
How It Ends

as Manny

Movie
2021
Schmigadoon!

as Reverend Howard Layton

TV
2021Movie
2021
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

as Deborahbot 5000 (voice)

Movie
2021
Too Late

as Fredo Muñoz

Movie
2020
Moonbase 8

as Skip

TV
2020
All Together Now

as Mr. Franks

Movie
2020
Central Park

as Esposito (voice)

TV
2020
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend

as Robert Durst / Robertina Durst

Movie
2020Movie
2020Movie
2019Movie
2019
Adams

as Adams

Movie
2019
Lights Out with David Spade

as Self - Panelist

TV
2019
The House of Tomorrow

as Tour Video Narrator (voice)

Movie
2019
Los Espookys

as Uncle Tico

TV
2019TV
2019
What We Do in the Shadows

as Tom 'Doctor Tom' Schmidt

TV
2019
Miracle Workers

as Percival Forthwind

TV
2019Movie
2018
Star Wars Resistance

as Lechee (voice)

TV
2018TV
2018
Forever

as Oscar

TV
2018
Barry

as Nestor

TV
2018
Game Over, Man!

as Fred Armisen

Movie
2018
Final Space

as KVN (voice)

TV
2018Movie
2017
Big Mouth

as Elliot Birch (voice)

TV
2017
Battle of the Sexes

as Rheo Blair

Movie
2017
The Lego Ninjago Movie

as Cole (voice)

Movie
2017
Cabiria, Charity, Chastity

as Aldo the Instructor

Movie
2017
The Little Hours

as Bishop Bartolomeo

Movie
2017
The Gong Show

as Self - Judge

TV
2017
Band Aid

as Dave

Movie
2017
Take the 10

as The Driver

Movie
2017Movie
2016Movie
2016
Final Transmission

as Lee Smith

Movie
2016
Globesman

as Tom O'Halloran

Movie
2016
Match Game

as Self - Panelist

TV
2016Movie
2016Movie
2015
Long Live the Royals

as Gavin, Brody

TV
2015
Superstore

as Kyle

TV
2015Movie
2015
Sandy Passage

as Vivienne 'Big Vivvy' Van Kimpton

Movie
2015
Documentary Now!

as Various Characters

TV
2015
Difficult People

as Garry Epstein

TV
2015
Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run

as Speedy Gonzales

Movie
2015
7 Days in Hell

as Edward Pudding

Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2015TV
2015
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

as Robertina Durst

TV
2015TV
2015
Man Seeking Woman

as Tanaka (voice)

TV
2014Movie
2014Movie
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

as Sweet Potato (voice) / Tomatillo (voice)

TV
2014Movie
2014
Deadbeat

as Janitor

TV
2014TV
2014TV
2014
The Celery Incident

as Various characters

Movie
2014
Broad City

as David the baby

TV
2013Movie
2013
Super Fun Night

as Brian Headfoot

TV
2013TV
2013Movie
2013
The Smurfs 2

as Brainy Smurf (voice)

Movie
2013
Blackout

as Various Characters

Movie
2013
Out There

as Terry Rosachristas

TV
2012
Brunch Village

as Various Characters

Movie
2012TV
2012
The Dictator

as Waiter / Minister

Movie
2012TV
2012
Unsupervised

as Martin (voice)

TV
2011Movie
2011Movie
2011
New Girl

as Brandon

TV
2011
Up All Night

as Gideon Kirk

TV
2011
The Smurfs

as Brainy Smurf (voice)

Movie
2011
The Looney Tunes Show

as Speedy Gonzales (voice)

TV
2011
Portlandia

as Various Characters

TV
2011
Bob's Burgers

as Tommy (voice)

TV
2010
Conan

as Self

TV
2010
The Women of SNL

as Various (archive footage)

Movie
2010
Easy A

as Pastor

Movie
2010Movie
2010
Ugly Americans

as Larry King (voice)

TV
2010
Presidential Reunion

as Barack Obama

Movie
2010
Cop Out

as Russian Lawyer

Movie
2010
Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2009
Modern Family

as Langham

TV
2009
Archer

as Gustavo Calderón (voice)

TV
2009
Post Grad

as Guacanator Pitchman

Movie
2009Movie
2009TV
2009Movie
2008
Christmas on Mars

as Philosophical and Hymn-Singing Astronaut

Movie
2008
The Rocker

as Kerr

Movie
2008
The Promotion

as Scott Fargas

Movie
2008
Baby Mama

as Stroller Salesman

Movie
2008
Largo

as Self

Movie
2007
Tim and Eric Nite Live!

as Dr. Pat Gordon Hall

TV
2007
Human Giant

as Dr. Marker

TV
2007
Goodbye Baby

as Comic

Movie
2007TV
2007
The Sarah Silverman Program.

as Taylor Magenheim

TV
2006
The Ex

as Manny

Movie
2006Movie
2006
Deck the Halls

as Gustave

Movie
2006
30 Rock

as Raheem Haddad

TV
2006
30 Rock

as Various Characters

TV
2006
Kiss Me Again

as Professor Szabo

Movie
2006
Laser Cats!

as The Bad Guy

Movie
2006
Book Club

as Self

Movie
2005
Squidbillies

as Miguel

TV
2005
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

as Frenchman (uncredited)

Movie
2005
Robot Chicken

as Archie Andrews (voice)

TV
2005
American Dad!

as Derrick (voice)

TV
2004
Tom Goes to the Mayor

as Phillip Priest (voice)

TV
2004
The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2004
EuroTrip

as Creepy Italian Guy

Movie
2003Movie
2002
Like Mike

as New Age Dad

Movie
2001TV
2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force

as Poncho (voice)

TV
2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force

as Robot Husband (voice)

TV
2000TV
1993TV
1989
The Simpsons

as Terrence (voice)

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

TV
1975TV
Untitled Donkey Kong Film

as Cranky Kong (voice)

Movie
Rhona Who Lives by the River

as Mr. Kortle / Remi's Mom

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayDecember 4, 1966
Place of BirthHattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Popularity1.8
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