Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Bio, Wiki, Age, Family, Career, Net Worth and More
Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Bio, Wiki, Age, Family, Career, Net Worth and More
Since the late 1990s, Fred Armisen has been entertaining audiences as an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician.
He is also known for his musical talents. He had a passion for music ever since he was in school, and he started out his professional life playing drums for a band in Chicago.
But he was unable to carve out a niche for himself, so he swiftly transitioned to television and began this phase of his career with a weekly HBO music series called Reverb.
He quickly established himself as a prominent figure in the business after making this move. However, his big break came when he was asked to join the cast of Saturday Night Live.
Ever since then, he has not needed to look back, and he has continued to work with the show as a writer even after he retired from the show as a cast member.
Soon after, he also began to feature in a variety of films and to start producing screenplays for standup comedy shows, eventually co-creating full-fledged sketch comedies such as Portlandia.
Even though he has only a few trophies to his name, he has been nominated for a large number of prizes, including 14 nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award and one nomination for the Grammy Award.
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Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Early Life
He was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on December 4th, 1966. Fred Armisen is his real name.
His father, Fereydun Herbert Armisen, was of Korean and German origin, while his mother, Hildegardt Mirabal Level, was from Venezuela.
Fereydun Herbert Armisen was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States. They became acquainted with one another while they were attending the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Soon after he was born in Hattiesburg, the family uprooted and moved to New York.
There, his father eventually got work with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), while his mother went on to become an educator.
After then, they returned to the United States after having lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a period of two years.
After returning to the United States, the family decided to make their home on Long Island, in the town of Valley Stream, New York.
There, he enrolled in the Valley Stream Central High School language program at his mother’s urging and became fluent in Spanish.
Additionally, at some point in his life, he came to the realization that he wanted to pursue a career in the arts; his mother was completely on board with this decision.
In 1984, he started performing with a local band as a drummer. However, the band did not remain together for very long, and once he completed his secondary education, he moved to New York City to enroll in the School of Visual Arts there.
Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Music Career
In 1988, Fred Armisen dropped out of School of Visual Arts and moved to Chicago with his friend Damon Locks.
There they formed a punk band, Trenchmouth with Armisen as the drummer, Locks as the vocalist and percussionist, Chris DeZutter, as the Guitarist and Wayne Montana as bassist.
Described by music critics as an “uncategorizable quartet”, Trenchmouth incorporated diverse genres into their music, fusing Caribbean rhythms with hardcore punk, post-punk, funk, no wave, and reggae etc. In 1989, they released their debut LP, a post punk track titled Snakebite.
In 1991, they released their debut studio album, Construction of New Action, which was followed in 1993 by Inside
The Future and in 1994 by Trenchmouth Vs. the Light of the Sun. While the first two were not very successful, the third earned them some recognition and was named “Album Pick” by AllMusic.
After Trenchmouth, they released two more studio albums; Volumes, Amplifiers, Equalizers in 1995 (1994)2 and The Broadcasting System in 1996.
However the group was dissolved soon after that and Armisen went to work for Blue Man Group, receiving his first paycheck for it.
Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Career on Screen
In 1997, Fred Armisen began his television career with Reverb, a weekly HBO music television series spotlighting emerging talent.
Featured as a special correspondence, he appeared in 82 episodes until 2001. Concurrently he started dabbling in filmmaking.
In 1998, he released two shorts, Guide to Music and South by Southwest and Fred Armisen’s Guide to Dance and Self-Defense.
In them he interviewed celebrities, using unique accent as well as mannerism that put him on the comedy map.
In 2000, he appeared in a few episodes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, further attracting critical attention.
In 2001, he appeared as Father Fred, Fericito in two episodes of the music video show, Friday Night and as Sergeant Fred in two episodes of the stand-up comedy show, Premium Blend.
In 2002, he appeared in 29 episodes of Late World with Zach and worked for some other television productions including Adult Swim.
Also in the same year, he debuted in films, appearing as a new-age dad in the sports comedy film, Like Me.
In 2002, he appeared as himself in a documentary film called I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco.
However, his greatest break came when in the same year, he was invited to join the cast of Saturday Night Live, remaining with the program for the next eleven years.
In 2004, Fred Armisen was promoted to a repertory player at the Saturday Night Live.
Meanwhile, he continued to appear in numerous films like Melvin Goes to Dinner and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy in 2003 and Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie in 2004.
Equally active on television, he appeared in 13 episodes of Crank Yankers, giving voice to Chip Douglas in 2003-2004.
In 2003, he met actor-musician-comedian Carrie Brownstein and by 2005 they started collaborating on a series of comedy sketches titled ThunderAnt for the Internet.
In 2008, he got his first star role in a movie, appearing as Scott Fargus in the comedy film, The Promotion. From 2008 to 2012, he appeared in eight episodes of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday.
In July 2009, he, along with Carrie Brownstein, decided to create a full-fledged sketch comedy show based on Portland, Oregon. Later, they collaborated with director-producer Jonathan Krisel to create the award-winning sketch comedy television series, Portlandia, which ran from 2011 to 2018.
Meanwhile he continued to appear in other productions, lending voice to Speedy Gonzales in thirty episodes of The Looney Tunes Show from 2011 to 2013, playing Lady Edith (Hedith)4 in five episodes of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2012-2013.
In 2013, after appearing in 229 episodes of Saturday Night Live, he decided to leave the show. In 2014, he joined Late Night with Seth Meyers, since then starring in it as the bandleader.
Meanwhile in 2015, he co-created a mocumentary television series call Documentary Now, which continues to run till now.
In 2019, he co-created and co-wrote another comedy television series called Los Espookys, also starring as Tico in it. His other important works of this period are Big Mouth, Final Space, and Forever.
Concurrently, he continued to appear on big screen, starring in films like Ordinary World (2016) The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), All Together Now (2020), How It Ends (2021), The Bubble (2022) etc. His latest work, an untitled Mario film, is scheduled to be released in April 2023.
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Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Major Works
Fred Armisen is probably best known as the co-creator Portlandia, a sketch comedy show based on Portland, Oregon.
He not only starred in it but also co-wrote the entire productions. The show received numerous awards and nominations, including Primetime Emmy Award.
Awards
- 2019Emmy–Outstanding Variety Sketch Series: Nominated
- 2017Emmy–Outstanding Variety Sketch Series: Nominated
- 2016Emmy–Outstanding Variety Sketch Series: Nominated
- 2016Emmy–Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: Nominated
- 2015Emmy–Outstanding Variety Sketch Series: Nominated
- 2014Emmy–Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Nominated
- 2014Emmy–Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: Nominated
- 2013Emmy–Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: Nominated
- 2012Emmy–Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series: Nominated
Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Relationship
Natasha Lyonne decided to make an appearance at this year’s Malibu Chili Cook-Off, which is one of the city’s longest standing traditions and invites chefs from all over the world to show off their skills in making chili.
She did not attend the event by herself, however; she brought a friend with her. Several witnesses at the occasion reported seeing Lyonne strolling hand in hand with an unidentified man who had curly hair.
Lyonne donned a stylish and contemporary spin on the traditional Hawaiian shirt, which featured a floral pattern in red and green and was tucked into a pair of black shorts.
She matched the top with a Gucci cross body bag that had the same color scheme as the shirt she was wearing.
Her tall, dark, and gorgeous partner was dressed in a button-down, short-sleeve short that displayed his intricate arm tattoos in a way that was easily visible (via The Daily Mail).
Even while there hasn’t been any official word that Lyonne and Armisen have broken up, we can’t help but wonder whether these photographs represent the couple’s official announcement that they are going their separate ways.
Wednesday: Fred Armisen Plays the Role of Uncle Fester
Armisen’s casting as Uncle Fester in Wednesday has finally been made public, putting an end to the protracted anticipation that preceded it.
He shared his thoughts with Vanity Fair, saying, “They really did such a terrific job with the makeup and everything.”
“I had no eyebrows. It was prosthetics over my eyebrows to give me that look. But I think that bald caps don’t look fantastic all the time, so I was hoping to simply make it that much more convincing.”
Fred Armisen (Wednesday): Net Worth
Fred Armisen is a comedian, actor, musician, writer, and producer who is based in the United States and has a net worth of $8 million.
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- Grew up on Long Island and also spent part of his childhood in Brazil
- Began his career in music; was a drummer in the ’90s punk-rock group Trenchmouth and in the Blue Man Group’s Chicago show
- Fred Armisen’s Guide to Music and SXSW, a video he created at the 1988 South By Southwest music conference became a cult hit and helped him transition into comedy
- Has directed music videos for bands such as Helio Sequence and Tigers & Monkeys
- Founded ThunderAnt
- com, a website featuring comedy sketches he created with Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein; the pair later went on to create Portlandia
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