Daddy's Home and Will Ferrel Biography

Daddy's Home and Will Ferrel Biography - John William "Will" Ferrell is his true name (born in Irvine California July 16, 1967)is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in comedy films such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights (2006), Step Brothers (2008), The Other Guys (2010) and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), all but one of which he co-wrote with his comedy partner Adam McKay. The two also founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007. Other films roles include Elf, Old School (both 2003), Blades of Glory (2007), and the animated films Megamind (2010), The Lego Movie (2014) and Daddy's Home (2015). In “Daddy’s Home,” Will Ferrell plays Brad, a variation on a Will Ferrell character we’ve seen a dozen times before: a nice guy who’s so aggressively, wonderfully, trying-so-hard nice even the children around him sometimes roll their eyes at his corny wholesomeness. Of course, we know anyone that passive carries inside a strong likelihood to explode one day. Brad is married to the lovely and sweet Sarah (Linda Cardellini, criminally underused), who has two young children, Dylan (Owen Vaccaro) and Megan (Scarlett Estevaz), from her previous marriage.

"Will" Ferrell is considered a member of the "Frat Pack", a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s, including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on Saturday Night Live, and 2 Golden Globe Award nominations for The Producers (2005) and Stranger than Fiction (2006). He was also named the best comedian of 2015 in the British GQ Men of the Year awards. Ferrell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 26, 2015.