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Will Arnett
  • Birth Name:
    William Emerson Arnett
  • Date of Birth:
    May 4, 1970
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Height:
    6' 2½"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Blue
  • Nationality:
    Canadian
  • Education:

    Leaside High School

    Lakefield College School, Lakefield, Ontario

    Concordia University, Montreal

    Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Family

Will Arnett
  • Father:
    E. James Arnett
  • Mother:
    Alexandra
  • Spouse:
    Amy Poehler - Present
    Penelope Ann Miller - Divorced

Career

Will Arnett
  • Profession:
    Actor
  • Debut:
    Erie - 1995 - Movie

Awards

Will Arnett
2004 : Future Classic Award

Trivia

Will Arnett
  • Will has done voiceovers for CBS, Film Trailers, GMC, and the drug Lamasil.
  • Will lent his voice to the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown.
  • Will Arnett voices the character Duncan Schiest on Comedy Central's Freak Show. The series was created by his former Arrested Development co-star, David Cross.
  • Will and his wife, Amy Poehler, will star alongside each other in the upcoming films On Broadway, Blades of Glory, and Spring Breakdown.
  • He appeared in all 53 episodes of the sitcom Arrested Development.
  • He has frequently cited Arrested Development character, Gob Bluth, as the favorite character he has played so far in his career.
  • Will was nominated in the 2006 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Arrested Development. He lost out to Jeremy Piven for his role in Entourage. In 2008, he was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on 30 Rock.
  • Will was nominated in 2006 and 2005 for a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Arrested Development.

Quotes

Will Arnett
  • "Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters."
  • "Well, we were never coming back to Fox... that was clear."
  • "Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it."
  • "This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on."
  • "There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful."
  • "No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted."
  • "It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."
  • "I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order."
  • "But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
  • "But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever."
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Biography

Will Arnett
Last Updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009

WillArnett was born in Toronto, the son of Alexandra and E. James Arnett, a corporate lawyer, and brewer among many other occupations. In Toronto, he attended French-speaking schools. He still speaks French, but has stated that he is not currently fluent in the language. He graduated from Leaside High School and briefly attended Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario. He attended Concordia University in Montreal for a semester, but dropped out. When he was a teenager, Arnett's mother encouraged him to pursue an acting career and he began to audition for commercials in Toronto. He decided that he really enjoyed acting and that it was something that he wanted to do with his life.

At age 20, in 1990, Arnett moved from Toronto to New York in order to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He began appearing in plays in New York and his first acting role was in the Felicity Huffmanindependent film Erie, which was filmed on the Erie Canal. Arnett recently appeared as a guest star on King of The Hill and 30 Rock. In 30 Rock, he played Devon Banks, a scheming network executive who plays a rival to Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy. He also has recently finished filming supporting roles in Spring Breakdown, Hot Rod, The Comebacks, and On Broadway. In On Broadway, he once again works with director Dave McLaughlin who is a close friend of Arnett's and gave him one of his first movie roles in Southie.

WillArnett's next starring role was in the comedy The Brothers Solomon, in which he again teamed with director Bob Odenkirk and starred opposite Saturday Night Live's Will Forte. He recently appeared in a major supporting role in the basketball comedy Semi-Pro, his second film with Will Ferrell He plays Lou Redwood, the commentator of the team, who is "a former player, a bit of a womanizer, and a boozer". Arnett's next movie role will be in Ye Olde Times, along with Jack Black which will commence filming this September.

Will Arnett has a distinctive gravelly voice and has also done voice-over work for CBS TV promos, film trailers, and numerous advertisements, including Lamisil medication. Perhaps most recognizable is Arnett's voice saying, "It's not more than you need, just more than you're used to" in ads for GMC trucks.

Filmography

Will Arnett

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