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| Birth Name(s) : William Emerson Arnett |
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Single
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Penelope Ann Miller (1994-1995) |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Will Arnett Biography
William "Will" Emerson Arnett (born May 5, 1970) (pronounced ) is an Emmy Award-nominated Canadian-American actor known for his role as George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth II (pronounced Job, like the biblical figure) on the FOX comedy Arrested Development. Since his success on Arrested Development, Arnett has landed major film roles. He recently played a supporting role in the comedy film Blades of Glory and the antagonist in Hot Rod. He played the starring role in 2006's Let's Go To Prison. Arnett has also done work as a voiceover artist for commercials, films, and television programs.
Arnett was born in Toronto to Alexandra and E. James Arnett, a corporate lawyer, and brewer among many other occupations. In Toronto, he attended French-speaking schools. He still speaks French, but has stated that he is not currently fluent in the language. He graduated from Leaside High School and briefly attended Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario. He attended Concordia University in Montreal for a semester, but dropped out. When he was a teenager, Arnett's mother encouraged him to pursue an acting career and he began to audition for commercials in Toronto. He decided that he really enjoyed acting and that it was something that he wanted to do with his life. At age 20, in 1990, Arnett moved from Toronto to New York in order to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He began appearing in plays in New York and his first acting role was in the Felicity Huffman independent film Erie, which was filmed on the Erie Canal.
In 2001, Arnett was cast in another television pilot, Loomis, for CBS. The pilot starred comedian Cheri Oteri as a local news reporter, and Arnett played her slacker brother. The pilot was not picked up. In 2002, Arnett was once again cast in a fourth television pilot. This pilot was for the CBS sitcom Still Standing; but even though the show was picked up and ran for many years, his character was cut from the series after the pilot. Arnett became so frustrated, after his fourth failed pilot, that he "swore off pilots" altogether, until his agent persuaded him to audition for the pilot for Arrested Development.
Due to his work on Arrested Development and the fact that he was no longer tied down to the series after its cancellation, Arnett began being cast in large roles in a number of films. Although he worked largely as a dramatic actor in films before Arrested Development, the roles that he has taken since have been mostly comedic, often playing smug bad guys. Despite the fact that Arnett has emerged as a comedic actor, Arnett "never considered himself a comic" and considers himself an "actor first."
Arnett's first major starring role was in Let's Go to Prison, a comedy film directed by Bob Odenkirk. The film was made on a small budget of $4 million.. It made over $4 million at the box office and over $13 million in rentals, making it a minor success. Arnett's most recent film was Blades of Glory, an ice skating comedy in which Arnett and his wife Amy Poehler played supporting roles to Will Ferrell. In an ironic twist they played a brother/sister skating duo whose relationship seemed to cross a few lines more often than not. The film was number one at the box office during its first two weeks and has grossed approximately $118 million domestically.Arnett with Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock
Arnett's next starring role was in the comedy The Brothers Solomon, in which he again teamed with director Bob Odenkirk and starred opposite Saturday Night Live's Will Forte. He recently finished filming a major supporting role in the upcoming basketball comedy Semi-Pro, his second film with Will Ferrell. Arnett's next movie role will be in Ye Olde Times, along with Jack Black, which will commence filming this September.
Will Arnett has a distinctive gravelly voice and has also done voice-over work for CBS TV promos, film trailers, and numerous advertisements, including Lamisil medication. Perhaps most recognizable is Arnett's voice saying, "It's not more than you need, just more than you're used to" in ads for GMC trucks.
Arnett has a pair of twin sisters who are three years older and a brother younger by nine years. His father James Arnett was corporate lawyer and became the president and CEO of Molson Breweries in 1997, until he stepped down in 2000. James had previously worked as a director for the company and he attended Harvard Law School.
Arnett began dating comedic actress Amy Poehler in 2000; the couple moved to New York in 2001 when she became a featured player on NBC's Saturday Night Live. On August 29, 2003, Arnett and Poehler married. Poehler appeared in four episodes of Arrested Development in 2004 and 2005. She played a woman who his character Gob marries during a drunken night of increasingly outrageous dares. Arnett and Poehler starred alongside each other in the film Blades of Glory and they will star together in the upcoming films On Broadway, Spring Breakdown, Horton Hears a Who!, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. He and Amy have a dog, Puzzle.
Appeared in the pilot and was intended to be a series regular, but his role was cut out of the pilot and he did not appear in later episodes
Shared with Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter
New York Magazine named Will Arnett and wife Amy Poehler "New Yorkers of the Year" for 2005 during their New York Magazine Culture Awards. |
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