In he left Saturday Night Live and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show.
Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In , he married Viveca Paulin , and lives in L. Sign In. Edit Will Ferrell. Showing all 99 items. Attended and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Sports Information. His wife, Viveca Paulin , is Swedish. Became Saturday Night Live 's highest paid cast member ever in Final appearance on Saturday Night Live on May 18, , followed by career move into full-time movie-acting.
He can be heard uncredited in the movie Kingpin in the background during the final bowling scene between Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson 's characters shouting, "Ernie, you're the man! April 21, Competed at the Boston Marathon. His official time was 4 hours, 2 minutes and 29 seconds. He and his wife Viveca Paulin ran in the New York City Marathon in , finishing together in 5 hours, 1 minute and 56 seconds.
Studied at USC in the hopes of becoming a sports broadcaster. He graduated and interned at NBC Sports, but then drew laughs after ad-libbing a joke on-air during one of his broadcasting courses and switched to comedy. Was not a class clown in high school but a scholar and an athlete.
Son, Magnus Paulin Ferrell, born on March 7, He weighed 8 lbs. Was voted the 3rd funniest person in America by Entertainment Weekly. His style is unique among modern movie funnymen, a majority of whom have some sort of background in stand-up comedy.
Ferrell's humor is character-driven and his genius lies in his improvised riffs from the minds of his typically cracked characters. His appearances on talk shows are often awkward, as he is uncomfortable appearing in public as himself.
The "Frat Pack" name is a reference to the film Old School featuring Vince Vaughn , Ferrell and Luke Wilson , due to the wide number of films featuring the seven actors. Ranked 51 in Premiere magazine's Power List. It is his first appearance on the list. Ferrell played Marshall in the movie adaptation of Land of the Lost Ranked 38 on Premiere magazine's Power 50 List.
Had ranked 51 in Once said that one of his favourite films is Patton Is a member of an adult soccer league that plays at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences - an exclusive private school in Santa Monica, California. Ranked 34 on Premiere magazine's "Power 50" list. Had ranked 38 in He has English, with smaller amounts of Irish, German, and Welsh, ancestry.
Has three sons -- Magnus, Mattias and Axel. Mattias was born on December 30, A kicker for the Varsity football team, and still holds the school record for the most field goals made.
Was named 74 out of on Entertainment Weekly's Must List Has a surgical scar on his upper right abdomen from a surgery he had as a baby to treat pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes frequent vomiting. Every summer, Will and his wife celebrate mid-summer in Sweden, a typical Swedish tradition. In January , he spent two weeks traveling throughout Ireland with his father, Lee, and brother Patrick.
He said that he is eager for his son to see it, because he will always associate it with his birth. Has been attacked by animals in several of his films.
Can be seen wearing the jerseys from the clubs at events on television. Met his wife, Viveca Paulin , in an acting class in Following a signature role in the film Old School , Ferrell found more success later that year as Buddy in the Christmas comedy Elf. Ferrell eventually found it difficult to sustain the impressive success he enjoyed early in his film career. His features Semi-Pro and Step Brothers both failed to make a sizable impact on audiences, while his foray into adventure with Land of the Lost proved a total flop.
Ferrell slid seamlessly into the role of voice actor for the animated Megamind , starring as the titular villain turned superhero. Two years later he drew positive reviews for Everything Must Go , a comedy that ventured further into the dramatic abilities only occasionally glimpsed in the actor's previous work.
Ferrell returned to familiar territory with Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and Zoolander 2 He also contributed prominently to The Lego Movie and delivered his signature over-the-top comedy with original characters in The Campaign , Daddy's Home and The House The success of Daddy's Home led to a holiday-themed sequel in , with veteran actors Mel Gibson and John Lithgow joining Ferrell alongside the first installment's co-star, Mark Wahlberg.
In , Ferrell teamed with writers Adam McKay and Chris Henchy to launch Funny or Die, a streaming video site that offered viewers the chance to vote on whether they liked the short clips presented. Ferrell's likable, popular personality was on display at the Boston Marathon, when the actor successfully completed the race in a time of just over four hours. It might have been better had he not been deluged with fans and fellow runners.
It was insane. While generally regarded as quiet and unassuming off set, the intensely private Ferrell hasn't been afraid to put his politics out front. His portrayal of Bush was far from flattering, and his refusal to meet with the President while he was still in office, despite overtures from his staff, spoke volumes about his feelings for the politician. Ferrell chalked it up in part to "comedic purposes" out of fear of being influenced by him. But politics did play a role: "The other side of it is, from a political standpoint, I don't want to meet that guy," he said.
The actor has been known to use his comedic skills for a good cause. In he launched a series of sunscreen lotions, which featured a scantily clad Ferrell on the bottle alongside such titles as Sexy Hot Tan and Forbidden Fruit.
All sales proceeds were steered to Cancer for College's College Willpowered Scholarship Fund, which hands out scholarships to cancer survivors and amputees. A longtime sports fan, Ferrell in took part in another charity for Cancer for College, playing for 10 big league baseball teams over the course of a single spring training day. In , it was announced he was joining the ownership group of the Los Angeles Football Club, which also included former athletic greats Magic Johnson and Mia Hamm.
In March , Ferrell joined the DeleteFacebook movement, which grew from the revelation that the Cambridge Analytica data firm had secretly harvested the private information of more than 50 million Facebook users. In August , Ferrell married his longtime girlfriend, Viveca Paulin, a Swedish-born art auctioneer. Both big dog lovers, they cared for three canines before plunging into parenthood with the birth of son Magnus in March He also re—enacted comedy skits he had seen on television to entertain his friends.
During his college years at the University of Southern California USC , where he majored in sports journalism, Ferrell took whatever job he could get. For one job, he worked as a parking garage valet at the Meridien Hotel in Newport Beach. On the second night of that job, he drove a van into a parking garage that did not have enough clearance for it. The entire luggage rack came off when the van hit the low ceiling. Surprisingly, Ferrell was not fired for this mishap.
He had not taken the money; the job was just not suited to him. After graduating from USC, he worked as a sports-caster for a local cable series. He did stand—up comedy routines at comedy clubs and coffeehouses. He also took classes with the Groundlings, a Los Angeles—based comedy and improvisation troupe that had helped Saturday Night Live stars Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Cheri Oteri, and Friends star Lisa Kudrow start their careers; six months after he began his studies with them, the group asked him to become a member.
In addition to his work with the Groundlings, Ferrell spent a summer studying scene construction, dialects, movement, and writing at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California. In , Lorne Michaels, the producer of Saturday Night Live, came to town looking for fresh talent for his show. Ferrell told Esquire 's Raab how he made it through the first audition and what occurred when he was called back for the second, which involved a meeting with Michaels in New York City.
Ferrell hoped to make an impression by being funny at this meeting, and brought a briefcase full of fake money, planning to do a mock bribe of Michaels. However, when he got there, the meeting was dead serious, so he kept quiet and never brought out the fake money at all. The show's producer, Steve Higgins, was present, and after Michaels said everything he wanted to say, he asked Higgins what he thought. Higgins looked at Ferrell and said, "Nice briefcase.
Bush, Attorney General Janet Reno, pompous television host James Lipton, and singer Neil Diamond, as well as a cheerleader and a "ladies man," among many others. His impressions of Bush became wildly popular during the presidential election.
Ironically, the president did not recognize Ferrell when they met on the Saturday Night Live set one day; in Bush's defense, "I was wearing a beard for another piece," Ferrell explained to Newsweek 's Marc Peyser. In addition to meeting Bush, Ferrell also met another target of his lampoons when Reno appeared on the show.
Ferrell told Peyser that he told Reno that "we've always portrayed her as a take—charge, almost superhero kind of character, and she kind of went, 'Oh, be quiet! Although Ferrell worried that he might be bothered by fans when he was out in public, his characters—not the actor himself—were what viewers remembered.
Out of makeup, in his own clothes, he could often go out in public and never be noticed. Joel Stein commented in Time that Ferrell "doesn't stick out. He looks backgroundy, and his shockingly mellow demeanor makes him extra—unnoticeable. I'm still taking the subways. He's as good as anyone who's ever done the show.
He continued to star on Saturday Night Live, but he was always aware that he might become stuck in a rut with the show, and he wanted to avoid that.
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