Will Ferrell has become one of the busiest actors working in movies today. Since starring in the back-to-back 2003 comedy hits Old School and Elf, Ferrell has gone on to star in several major films. In the last year alone, the actor was seen in the box-office hit Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy that he co-wrote with writing partner Adam McKay. He recently starred in Woody Allen's latest ensemble film Melinda and Melinda and will next be seen starring opposite Nicole Kidman in the big-screen version of the classic TV sitcom Bewitched.

But it was Ferrell's seven seasons (1995-2002) on NBC's Saturday Night Live that first established him as a comedic force of nature. With such shamelessly funny and memorable characters as cheerleader Craig the Spartan, musical middle school teacher Marty Culp, hyperactive Morning Latte host Tom Wilkins, and goofy club-hopper Steve Butabi--along with his uproarious impressions of George W. Bush, Janet Reno, Alex Trebek and Neil Diamond--Ferrell emerged as one of that show's most versatile and beloved cast members. For his later work on Saturday Night Live, he received two 2001 Emmy Award nominations: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.

Ferrell's first major feature role was as Mustafa in the enormously popular Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. He also reprised the character in the comedy's sequel, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Other earlier film performances include A Night at the Roxbury, the movie adventures of Ferrell's and Saturday Night Live co-star Chris Kattan's Butabi Brothers (co-written by the actors, with Steve Koren); The Thin Pink Line; The Suburbans; the Richard Nixon parody Dick, in which Ferrell played Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward; Superstar (opposite SNL cast mate Molly Shannon); Drowning Mona, with Bette Midler; The Ladies Man (which starred SNL's Tim Meadows); and outrageous fashion designer Jacobin Mugatu in Ben Stiller's male model parody Zoolander.