Fred Armisen Short biography
Fred Armisen is an American comedian, actor, musician, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (2002–2013) and the IFC series Portlandia (2011–2018). Armisen co-created Portlandia as well as IFC's Documentary Now! (2015–present) and HBO's Los Espookys (2019–present), and he has served as a writer and executive producer on all three shows.
Armisen has more than 160 acting credits to his name, including the films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The Rocker (2008), and Staten Island Summer (2015) and the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2018), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2016–2020), Forever (2018), and Moonbase 8 (2020–present). Armisen has lent his voice to numerous film and television projects, such as The Smurfs (2011), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), Crank Yankers (2003–2007), The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2014), Big Mouth (2017–present), and Final Space (2018–present).
Armisen founded the website ThunderAnt.com, which features comedy sketches created with his Portlandia co-creator/co-star Carrie Brownstein, and he became the bandleader for The 8G Band, the house band for Late Night with Seth Meyers, in 2014. Armisen released several albums with the Chicago-based punk band Trenchmouth, including Inside the Future (1993) and Volumes, Amplifiers, and Equalizers (1995), and he played background drums for Blue Man Group in the '90s. In 2018, Armisen released the album Standup for Drummers, which earned him a Grammy nomination, and in 2015, Smithsonian magazine honored him with the American Ingenuity Award for Performing Arts.
