Bill Hader
Bill Hader (birthname: William Thomas Hader Jr.) has forged a unique path from popular Saturday Night Live player to movie comedy actor to a highly coveted voice actor to streaming series creator to film director/writer/producer—the latter of which he first intended to do before opting for improv group comedy. Hader, though, started small, beginning his movie career even while he was still on SNL with minor roles in the comedies You, Me & Dupree (2006) Doogal (2006), Knocked Up (2007), Hot Rod (2007), Superbad (2007), The Brothers Solomon (2007) and Pineapple Express (2008).
Hader then landed significant supporting comedic and, increasingly, voice roles in Tropic Thunder (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Adventureland (2009), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Year One (2009), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and its sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Paul (2011). Hader had one of his first above-the-title roles (as Hansel) in director/co-writer Mike Disa’s animated comedy sequel involving various fairy tale characters, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011), co-starring Glenn Close, Cheech and Chong, Hayden Panettiere, Amy Poehler and Martin Short, and then Hader portrayed a spoofy version of Andy Warhol in the sequel, Men in Black 3 (2012), co-starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin under Barry Sonnefeld’s direction.
Bill Hader then deployed his distinctively deep voice for a decade-plus-long string of voice performances animated and live-action movies that sometimes took him beyond comedy, including Monsters University (2013), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Turbo (2013), Her (2013), as a voice-over on the documentaries Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015) and Belushi (2020), as “Fear” in Inside Out (2015), The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Finding Dory (2016), The BFG (2016), Sausage Party (2016), Power Rangers (2017), as Axel in Toy Story 4 (2019), The Addams Family 2 (2021), Lightyear (2022) and IF (2024). Hader’s live-action performances for the big screen became more prominent with the rom com from director/writer Maggie Carey (and Hader’s then-wife), The To Do List (2013), on which he was also an executive producer, starring Aubrey Plaza, Alia Shawkat, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Andy Samberg and Donald Glover, and released by CBS Films; and then Hader had his first co-starring role (with fellow SNL alum Kristen Wiig, playing twin siblings) in director/co-writer Craig Johnson’s acclaimed comedy drama, The Skeleton Twins (2014), premiering at the Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Screenplay prize in the U.S. Dramatic competition) and grossed nearly six times estimated costs for distributors Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions (U.S.)/Stage 6 Films (International), along with Hader having a major supporting role with more fellow SNL players in director/co-writer David Wain’s and co-writer/producer Michael Showalter’s satirical They Came Together (2014), co-starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, with Christopher Meloni, Melanie Lynskey and Ed Helms, and which also launched at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hader played a supporting turn in his first non-comedic live-action movie in director/writer/producer Ned Benson’s feature trilogy, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013-2014), co-starring Jessica Chastain (who was also a lead producer) and James McAvoy, with Viola Davis, Katherine Waterston, Ciaran Hinds, Isabelle Huppert and William Hurt, and which was launched in separate sections (as “Him,” “Her” and “Them”) at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival, then at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and finally in general release via The Weinstein Company. Hader appeared in the troubled production, Accidental Love (2015), with Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan and James Brolin (under the direction of David O. Russell, whose creative and business disputes with producers led him to withdraw his name from the credits), then Hader co-starred with writer Amy Schumer in her and director/producer Judd Apatow’s sex comedy, Trainwreck (2015), with the eclectic cast of Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Tilda Swinton and LeBron James, and which grossed four times estimated costs for a nearly $141 million total for Universal Pictures.
Bill Hader joined co-stars Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel and Julianne Moore in director/writer/producer Rebecca Miller’s comedy drama, Maggie’s Plan (2015), based on Karen Rinaldi’s short story, produced (in part) by Rachael Horovitz Productions and Protagonist Pictures, and which earned $7 million for Sony Pictures Classics after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Hader returned to live-action acting in features four years later as part of the adult ensemble in the sequel of Stephen King’s novel, It Chapter Two (2019), with Hader reuniting James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain, along with James Ransome, Isaiah Mustafa, Andy Bean and Bill Skarsgard, and grossing a strong $473 million for lead producer New Line Cinema and distributor Warner Bros. Pictures.
Bill Hader had his first lead title role in an animated feature in Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s big-screen Dr. Seuss adaptation of The Cat in the Hat (2026) (on which he also took an executive producer credit), with the voices of Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Xochitl Gomez, Giancarlo Esposito and America Ferrera, and released wide by Warner Bros. Pictures. Hader made his debut as director/writer/star of—not a comedy, but an original horror movie—They Know (date to be announced), based on an original story by Hader and Duffy Boudreau, co-starring Linda Cardellini, produced by MRC and Hader’s own production company, Hanarply.
Hader returned to voice performance in animated filmmaking with a supporting role in director/producer Duke Johnson’s stop-motion animated version of George Saunders’ screen adaptation of his 2017 Booker Prize-winning novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (date to be announced), starring Tom Hanks (as Lincoln), Andre Holland, Alanah Bloor, Mary Birdsong, Jordan Luke Gage, and with fellow voice actors Willem Dafoe, Peter Dinklage, Meryl Streep, Colman Domingo and Tom Waits, produced (in part) by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman via their Playtone production company.
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Known For
The Skeleton Twins
Milo Dean (2014)
Bill Hader Movies
Actor
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- 2026 |
The Cat in the Hat
asThe Cat in the Hat
Meet the Cat in the Hat you don't know in an all-new, epic adventure where mischief, magic and mayhem reign supreme.
- 2026 |
- 2023 |
Beau is Afraid
asUPS Guy
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.
- 2022 |
- 2021 |
The Addams Family 2
asCyrus Strange
Morticia and Gomez are distraught that Wednesday and Pugsley are growing up. To reclaim their bond they decide to cram the family into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last vacation together.
- 2019 |
The Angry Birds Movie 2
asLeonard
The flightless birds and scheming green pigs take their feud to the next level.
- 2019 |
It Chapter Two
asRichie Tozier
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
- 2018 |
Love, Gilda
asSelf
In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique ... Read all
- 2018 |
The Great Buster
asSelf
Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
- 2017 |
Power Rangers
asAlpha 5
When Earth is on the verge of an alien invasion, five teenagers, who are infused with superhuman abilities, must harness their newfound powers to battle this threat - as the Power Rangers.
- 2016 |
The Angry Birds Movie
asLeonard
When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green pigs, it's up to three unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
- 2016 |
- 2016 |
Maggie's Plan
asTony
Maggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie's plans may collapse.
- 2016 |
Sausage Party
asFirewater
A sausage leads a group of supermarket products on a journey to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they are picked off the shelf.
- 2016 |
Finding Dory
asHusband Fish (Stan)
Friendly but forgetful blue tang Dory begins a search for her long-lost parents and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way.
- 2015 |
Inside Out
asFear
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
- 2015 |
Trainwreck
asAaron
A commitment-phobic career woman who has always thought that monogamy was impossible must face her fears when she meets a good guy.
- 2013 |
- 2013 |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
asFlint Lockwood
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational, and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids.
- 2013 |
- 2012 |
Men in Black 3
asAndy Warhol
Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.
- 2009 |
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
asGazelle
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.
- 2009 |
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
asGeorge Armstrong Custer
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.
- 2009 |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
asFlint Lockwood
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know that things are about to take a turn for the worst.
- 2008 |
Tropic Thunder
asStudio Executive Rob Slolom - Vietnam Crew
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
- 2008 |
Pineapple Express
asPrivate Miller
A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.
- 2007 |
Knocked Up
asBrent
For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.
- 2007 |
- 2007 |
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