Fred Armisen
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Armisen at the 2014 Imagen Awards
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| Birth name | Fereydun Robert Armisen |
| Born |
December 4, 1966 Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, music, television, film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Genres | Character comedy, sketch comedy |
| Spouse |
Sally Timms (m. 1998–2004) Elisabeth Moss (m. 2009; div. 2011) |
| Notable works and roles |
Saturday Night Live Portlandia Late Night with Seth Meyers |
| Website | fredarmisen |
Fereydun Robert "Fred" Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, voice artist, screenwriter, producer, singer, and musician. Widely known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2002 until 2013, Armisen has portrayed characters in comedy films, including EuroTrip, Anchorman, and Cop Out. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, Armisen is the co-creator and co-star of the IFC sketch comedy series Portlandia. Armisen founded ThunderAnt.com, a website that features the comedy sketches created with Brownstein, and is the bandleader for the Late Night with Seth Meyers house band, The 8G Band.
For his work on Portlandia, Armisen was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2014. He has also won two Peabody Awards, one in 2008 as part of the Saturday Night Live political satire cast and one in 2011 for Portlandia.
Armisen was born on December 4, 1966, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi but moved to New York as a baby and briefly lived in Brazil in his youth. He was raised in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, where he was a high school classmate of fellow SNL alumnus Jim Breuer. His mother, Hildegardt Mirabal, a schoolteacher, is from Venezuela. His father, Fereydun (later "Fred") Armisen, who worked for IBM, was born in Germany, to a Japanese father (dancer Masami Kuni) and a German mother. Armisen attended the School of Visual Arts (NYC) before dropping out to begin a career as a rock drummer. He has mentioned watching the bands The Clash and Devo perform on television, and wanting to be a performer since he was a child.
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