Fred Armisen

Fred Armisen (April 2008)

Fereydun Robert "Fred" Armisen (born December 4, 1966 in Hattiesburg , Mississippi ) is an American actor , comedian and musician .

Life

Fereydun R. Armisen was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shortly after he was born, his family moved to Manhattan, where he grew up in Valley Stream , Long Island . His mother Hildegardt is a primary school teacher and comes from Venezuela, while his father worked at IBM and is of German and Korean descent. He studied at the New York School of Visual Arts , which he gave up in favor of drumming.

The first attempts as a musician with his high school friends failed. He moved from New York to Chicago in 1988 and played in the punk rock band Trenchmouth as a drummer. In 1990 he was part of the Blue Man Group as a drummer . In 2007 he played three tracks as a drummer on Les Savy Favs Let's Stay Friends .

Armisen was married to the English singer and songwriter Sally Timms from 1998 to 2004 . From 2009 to 2011 he was married to the actress and self-confessed Scientologist Elisabeth Moss . He himself claimed to be an atheist . He has been in a relationship with actress Natasha Lyonne since 2014 .

Filmography (selection)

Movie

• 2002: Like Mike
• 2004: Eurotrip
• 2004: Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
• 2006: Blinding Christmas (Deck the Halls)
• 2007: Your Ex - My Nightmare (The Ex)
• 2008: Baby Mama
• 2008: The Rocker - Voll der (S) Hit (The Rocker)
• 2009: Shopaholic - The Bargain Hunter (Confessions of a Shopaholic)
• 2009: (dream) job wanted (post degree)
• 2010: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
• 2010: Cop Out - loaded and unlocked (Cop Out)
• 2010: Easy to have (Easy A)
• 2011: The Smurfs ( The Smurfs , voice)
• 2012: The Dictator (The Dictator)
• 2016: Zoolander 2
• 2016: Ordinary World
• 2017: The LEGO Ninjago Movie (voice in original)

series

• 2002–2013: Saturday Night Live
• 2007–2012: 30 Rock (two episodes)
• 2008: The Sarah Silverman Program
• 2011–2013: The Looney Tunes Show
• 2011-2018: Portlandia
• 2014: Modern Family (an episode)
• since 2014: Late Night with Seth Meyers (leader of the 8G band)
• 2017–18: The Last Man on Earth (four episodes)
• 2018: Forever

Web links

• Fred Armisen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fred Armisen in the German dubbing file
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dave Itzkoff: Eccentric on 'SNL' Is' Jus' Keeeeding! ' , The New York Times. September 30, 2005. Retrieved October 3, 2010. 
2. ↑ Muther, Christopher. "'SNL' star Armisen drums up a career in comedy" , Boston Globe , January 30, 2004 (fee required)
3. ↑ Painting the Town Fred ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Heisler, Steve. "Devo Made Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen Want to Be on TV" , New York Magazine , 11 February 2011
5. ↑ Borrelli, Christopher. "Fred Armisen: The Chicago Years" ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Chicago Tribune , January 11, 2012. Accessed February 5, 2012. 
6. ^ Real Time with Bill Maher . In: Episode 242 . HBO . March 23, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.