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Fred Armisen
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
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-st…
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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.
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2026
Nimrods
Movie Jim
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2026
We're Back! With Brian Williams
TV show Self - Guest
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2026
Lorne
Movie Self
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2026
5 Things with Jay Mewes
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
Dear Shop Girl
Movie Landlord
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2025
Downey Wrote That
Movie Self
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2025
Fixed
Movie Fetch (voice)
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2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Movie Self
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2025
DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk
Movie Self
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2025
Lubach
TV show
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2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TV show Self
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2025
Deli Boys
TV show Max Sugar
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie Self
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2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie Self - SNL Cast Member 2002 - 2013
More credits
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2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
TV show Self
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2024
Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
Movie Self
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2024
Age of Audio
Movie Self
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2024
Will & Harper
Movie Self
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2024
Universal Basic Guys
TV show David (voice)
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2024
Never Mind
Movie Manager Cat
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2024
Thelma the Unicorn
Movie Danny Stallion (voice)
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2024
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
TV show Self
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2024
Unfrosted
Movie Mike Puntz
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2024
Come and Save Me
Movie Hugo
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2024
Fallout
TV show DJ Carl
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2024
Resynator
Movie Self
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2023
Carol & the End of the World
TV show (voice)
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2023
Melomaniac
Movie Self
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2023
The Contestant
Movie Denpa Shonen Narrator (voice)
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2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Movie Cranky Kong (voice)
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2023
Royal Crackers
TV show Brent (voice)
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2023
Unstable
TV show Leslie
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2023
Digman!
TV show Dr. Sigmund Freud (voice)
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2023
Agent Elvis
TV show Charles Manson (voice)
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2023
History of the World: Part II
TV show Glorp
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2023
Resurgence
Movie Record shopper 2
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2022
Wednesday
TV show Uncle Fester
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2022
Clerks III
Movie Auditioner
