
Bill Hader
Biography
William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the creator, producer, writer, director, and star of the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018–2023), for which he has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning two.
Hader's initial success was for his eight-year stint (2005–2013) as a cast member on the long-running NBC variety series Saturday Night Live, 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, in which he played Stefon Meyers, a flamboyant New York tour guide who recommends unusual nightclubs and parties with bizarre characters with unusual tastes. He is also the star and producer of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! (2015–present) which he co-created along with Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers.
Hader has had supporting roles in the films You, Me and Dupree (2006), Hot Rod (2007), Superbad (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, (2009), Paul (2011), This Is 40 (2012), and 22 Jump Street (2014), as well as leading roles in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Trainwreck (2015), and as an adult Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019).
He also is known for his extensive work in voice-over, portraying both leading and supporting characters in films such as the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise (2009–2013), Turbo (2013), Inside Out (2015), The BFG (2016), Power Rangers (2017), Toy Story 4 (2019) and Lightyear (2022).
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Known For
Acting History
2026
The Cat in the Hat as The Cat in the Hat (voice)
2025Downey Wrote That as Self
2025Everybody's Live with John Mulaney as Self - Actor and Comedian
2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2025SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night as Self
2024IF as Banana (voice)
2024John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. as Self
2024Hendrie as Self
2023Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love as Self - Guest
2023Beau Is Afraid as UPS Guy
2022Lightyear as Featheringhamstan (voice)
2022Toast of Tinseltown as Dwight Difference
2021The Addams Family 2 as Cyrus Strange (voice)
2020Adventure Time: Distant Lands as Bufo (voice)
2020Celebrity Escape Room as Self
2020Belushi as John Belushi (voice)
2020Beastie Boys Story as "Crazy Shit" Voice (voice)
2019The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends as Self
2019Noelle as Nick Kringle
2019At the Video Store as Self
2019It Chapter Two as Richie Tozier
2019The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as urGoh (The Wanderer) (voice)
2019The Angry Birds Movie 2 as Leonard (voice)
2019Lights Out with David Spade as Self - Panelist
2019Toy Story 4 as Axel the Carnie (voice)
2019Desus & Mero as Self - Illustrious Guest
2018Ralph Breaks the Internet as J.P. Spamley (voice) (uncredited)
2018Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
2018The Great Buster: A Celebration as Self
2018The Shop as Self
2018Love, Gilda as Self
2018Inside The Episode: Barry as Self
2018Barry as Barry Berkman
2018GQ Presents: Iconic Characters as Self
2018What the Fit as Self
2017Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show as Self
2017The Power of the Present as Self - Voice of Alpha 5 (2017)
2017Talking with Chris Hardwick as Self
2017Power Rangers as Alpha 5 (voice)
2016Sausage Party as Firewater / Tequila / El Guaco (voice)
2016Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously as Self
2016Finding Dory as Husband Fish (Stan) (voice)
2016To Tell the Truth as Self - Panelist
2016Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as Zippy
2016The BFG as Bloodbottler
2016The Angry Birds Movie as Leonard (voice)
2016Maggie's Plan as Tony
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens as BB-8 (voice)
2015Riley's First Date? as Fear / Jordan's Joy (voice)
2015Mind Candy as Fear (voice)
2015Documentary Now! as Various Characters
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015Trainwreck as Dr. Aaron Conners
2015Inside Out as Fear (voice)
2015Accidental Love as Doctor Turnstall
2015Beaver Trilogy Part IV as Narrator
2015Star vs. the Forces of Evil as Additional Voices (voice)
2015Man Seeking Woman as Adolf Hitler
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her as Stuart
2014The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him as Stuart
2014They Came Together as Kyle
201422 Jump Street as Culinary School Villain (uncredited)
2014The Skeleton Twins as Milo Dean
2014The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Stuart
2014Clear History as Rags
2014Silicon Valley as Pipey (voice)
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2014Steve's First Bath as Flint Lockwood (voice)
2014Attack of the 50-foot Gummi Bear as Flint Lockwood (voice)
2013Her as Chat Room Friend #2 (voice)
2013Cinema Six as (uncredited)
2013Here Comes the Night Time as Captain Bill the Astronaut
2013Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 as Flint Lockwood (voice)
2013Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Captain Seth Dozerman
2013Comedy Central Roast of James Franco as Self
2013Talking Bad as Self
2013The Awesomes as Dr. Malocchio (voice)
2013The To Do List as Willy
2013Turbo as Guy Gagné (voice)
2013Drunk History as John Pemberton
2013Monsters University as Referee / Slug (voice)
2013Star Trek Into Darkness as Additional Voices (voice)
2013Norm Macdonald Live as Self
2013Escape from Planet Earth as Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
2012This Is 40 as Desi's Store Pickup (uncredited)
2012Nantucket Film Festival's Comedy Roundtable as Self - Host
2012The Mindy Project as Tom McDougall
2012Comedy Bang! Bang! as Self
2012Men in Black 3 as Andy Warhol
2012Finding Your Roots as Self
2012The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
2012Good Mythical Morning as Self
2011Billy on the Street as Self
20116 Days to Air: The Making of South Park as Self
2011Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil as Hansel (voice)
2011Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10 as Vincent Price
2011Paul as Haggard
2011Portlandia as Birdman
2011Bob's Burgers as Mickey (voice)
2011Bob's Burgers as Big Bob Belcher (voice)
2010Conan as Self
2010The Women of SNL as Various (archive footage)
2010Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as The Voice (voice)
2010Saturday Night as Self
2010Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again as Self
2010Ugly Americans as William Dyer (voice)
2010Freaknik: The Musical as Tad (voice)
2009SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas as (archive footage)
2009Monkey Mischief as General Custer
2009Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as Flint Lockwood (voice)
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs as Gazelle (voice)
2009Year One as Shaman
2009Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as George Armstrong Custer
2009Snake 'n' Bacon as (voice)
2009Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler as Various (archive footage)
2009Adventureland as Bobby
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
2008Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday as Various
2008Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness as Rob Slolom
2008Tropic Thunder as Rob Slolom
2008Pineapple Express as Private Miller
2008The Line as Josh
2008Forgetting Sarah Marshall as Brian Bretter
2007The Shooting AKA Dear Sister as Keith
2007Xavier: Renegade Angel as Fiddelin Announcer (voice)
2007Xavier: Renegade Angel as Pavlov (voice)
2007The Brothers Solomon as Recumbent Biker
2007Superbad as Officer Slater
2007Plug & Play as Self
2007Hot Rod as Dave
2007Knocked Up as Brent
2007Purple Violets as Bill - Bookstore Fan
2007Human Giant as Little Kevin
2007Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Self as James Quall
200630 Rock as Kevin
2006You, Me and Dupree as Mark
2006Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse as Self
2006Doogal as Soldier Sam (voice)
2006The Pity Card as Eric
2005The Office as Bill Hader
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004The Venture Bros. as Professor Impossible / Phage (voice)
2004The Venture Bros. as Professor Impossible (voice)
2004The Venture Bros. as Professor Impossible / Alien Villain (voice)
2004The Venture Bros. as Headshot (voice)
2004The Venture Bros. as Phineas Phage / Headshot / Flying Squid (voice)
2004The Venture Bros. as Flying Squid (voice)
2004Sounds Good to Me: Remastering 'The Sting' as Barnaby G. Price
2003Comedy Central Roasts as Self
2003Punk'd as Field Agent
2000Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Der Inflatable Hitler (voice)
2000Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Pod (voice)
2000Curb Your Enthusiasm as Igor, Gregor, & Timor
1999Mark Twain Prize as Self
1997South Park as Plex the robot
1997South Park as Alec Baldwin
1996The Ambiguously Gay Duo as Self
1996The Ambiguously Gay Duo as Flame Eye / Flatside (voice)
1996The Daily Show as Self
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1989The Simpsons as Manacek (voice)
1989The Simpsons as Slava (voice)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live as Self (archive footage)
—Empress of Serenity
—Renaldo and Alexi as Alexi






