Bill Hader
Bill Hader is an American comedian and actor. Born June 7, 1978, in Tulsa. Known for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Barry and The Angry Birds films. Educated at Scottsdale Community College and Edison Preparatory School. Awards include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (2 times).
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- Described as
- American comedian and actor
- Other names
- William Thomas Hader Jr.
- Born
- June 7, 1978
- Born in
- Tulsa
- Name at birth
- William Thomas Hader Jr.
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- actor · 3 references; comedian; television actor; film actor; voice actor; showrunner; film director; musician · 1 reference
- Education
- Scottsdale Community College; Edison Preparatory School · 1 reference; New York Film Academy; Cascia Hall Preparatory School; The Art Institute of Phoenix
- Member of
- Writers Guild of America East
- Known for
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009–2013); Barry; The Angry Birds films; The Cat in the Hat; Trainwreck; Inside Out; Monsters University; Finding Dory; Toy Story 4; Lightyear
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (2 times) (2018, 2019)
- Field
- acting · 1 reference; satire · 1 reference; television screenwriting · 1 reference; television direction · 1 reference; television production · 1 reference
- Spouse
- Maggie Carey (2006–2018) · 1 reference
- Religion
- Christianity
- Wikipedias with a page
- 43
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1384712120
William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013, for which he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Peabody Award. He became known for his impressions and especially for his work on the Weekend Update segments, where he played Stefon, a flamboyant New York City nightclub tour guide.
Hader co-created the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023) with Alec Berg, in addition to playing the title role of Barry Berkman. He also served as producer, writer and director, for which his efforts garnered him eight Emmy Award nominations for the series. He won two, consecutively, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He is a star and producer of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! (2015–2022) along with Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers. He was Emmy-nominated for his guest role in Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2022.
In film, he took supporting roles in Hot Rod (2007), Superbad (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Adventureland (2009) and The BFG (2016), with leading roles in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Trainwreck (2015), and as an adult Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019).
His extensive voice acting work includes such as the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film series (2009–present) and The Angry Birds Movie franchise (2016-present), Monsters University (2013), Inside Out (2015), Finding Dory, Sausage Party (both 2016), Toy Story 4 (2019), and Lightyear (2022), and The Cat in the Hat (2026).
- Born, in its opening lines
- June 7, 1978
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