Bobby Moynihan
Birthdate: Jan 31, 1977
Birthplace: Eastchester, New York, USA
Bobby Moynihan (birthname: Robert Michael Moynihan Jr.) is best known as a veteran player on Saturday Night Live from 2008 to 2017 with an especial talent for impersonation, making his feature film debut as co-lead in director/writer/producer Christian Victor Levatino’s $200 indie crime movie, Nine the Hard Way (1999), followed by a co-lead role in another low-budget indie feature, director/writer/producer Gerald Sprayregen’s Economics 101 (2002).
Moynihan played a supporting role in director/co-writer Dan Eckman’s and star/co-writer Donald Glover’s comedy premiering at Sundance and released by Roadside Attractions, Mystery Team (2009), and continued in supporting roles in co-directors/co-writers Ricky Gervais’ and Matthew Robinson’s The Invention of Lying (2009) for Warners Bros/Focus Features; in director/producer Mark Steven Johnson’s Disney/Touchstone Pictures romcom, When in Rome (2010), with Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel; in writer/producer Mike O’Malley’s stage-to-screen adaptation, Certainty (2011); and in director Ramas Mosley’s and writer Tim Macy’s fantasy comedy for Magnolia Pictures, The Brass Teapot (2012), with Juno Temple and Michael Angarano.
Moynihan landed his first voice role in a studio animated movie, Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University (2013), with the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Helen Mirren under co-writer Dan Scanlon’s direction, and which grossed $743.6 million, and which launched Moynihan on a string of voice roles in director/co-writer/producer Juan Jose Campanella’s Argentine-Spanish soccer comedy, Underdogs (2015); in the hit Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures’ hit, The Secret Life of Pets (2016), grossing a spectacular $885.3 million worldwide, and its sequel also directed by Chris Renaud, The Secret Lives of Pets 2 (2019), earning $431 million; a co-starring role in the American-Canadian-South Korean comedy, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017); Disney/Pixar’s spectacularly successful sequel, director/co-writer Kelsey Mann’s Inside Out 2 (2024), starring Amy Poehler and grossing $1.7 billion; and a co-starring role in Disney/Pixar’s original directed and written by Daniel Chong, Hoppers (2026), with the voices of Piper Curda, Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco and Meryl Streep.
Bobby Moynihan’s live-action roles have included supporting or co-lead parts in director/co-writer Ken Scott’s comedy-drama for Disney/Touchstone Pictures, Delivery Man (2013), starring Vince Vaughn; in co-star/writer/producer Nick Kroll’s comedy-drama, Adult Beginners (2014), with Rose Byrne; in director/co-writer/producer Will Gluck’s stage-to-film musical adaptation, Annie (2014), starring Jamie Foxx, grossing $137 million for Columbia Pictures/Sony Releasing; in the indie romcom, Slow Learners (2015); in the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy hit for Universal Pictures, Sisters (2015), directed by Jason Moore; a top role in the Paramount-released comedy, Brother Nature (2016), with former SNL co-players Taran Killam (who co-wrote) and Kenan Thompson and Kumail Nanjiani, Rita Wilson and Bill Pullman, which was followed by director/writer/producer Killam’s mockumentary, Killing Gunter (2017), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; in Kevin Smith’s sequel for Lionsgate, Clerks III (2022); in director/writer/producer/co-star John Krasinski’s fantasy comedy for Paramount Pictures, IF (2024), with Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds (who also produced), and Steve Carell.
Personal life
Bobby Moynihan was born and raised in Eastchester, New York, by his parents. Moynihan studied theater and graduated from the University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts in 1999. Moynihan has been married to Broadway actor Brynn O’Malley since 2016 and lives in Los Angeles; the couple has one child. Moynihan’s height is 5’ 7”. Moynihan’s estimated net worth is $4 million.
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- 2024 | Nature Cat's Nature Movie Special Extraordinaireas Hal
- 2024 |
- 2021 | Flora & Ulyssesas Stanlee
- 2021 |
America: The Motion Picture
asPaul Revere
A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution.
- 2019 |
The Secret Life of Pets 2
asMel
Continuing the story of Max and his pet friends, following their secret lives after their owners leave them for work or school each day.
- 2018 | Nature Cat: The Return of Bad Dog Bartas Hal
- 2018 |
Star Wars Resistance
asOrka
Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot for the Resistance, is tasked with a top secret mission to investigate the First Order, a growing threat in the galaxy.
- 2017 | Nature Cat: Ocean Commotionas Hal
- 2017 | Why We're Killing Guntheras Donnie
- 2017 |
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
asMayor Muldoon
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
A group of squirrels try to stop a mayor from destroying the park where they live to make way for a dysfunctional amusement park.
- 2017 |
The Book of Henry
asJohn
With instructions from her genius son's carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather.
- 2016 | 5 Doctorsas Dr. Fisher
- 2016 | Brother Natureas Todd Dotchman
- 2016 |
Brother Nature
asTodd Dotchman
Strait-laced go-getter Roger hopes to propose to his dream girl during a weekend getaway at her family's lake house, but his eager-to-be-best-buds potential brother-in-law might accidentally wreck his plans.
- 2016 |
The Secret Life of Pets
asMel
The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes.
- 2015 | Cast Partyas Jonathan Biting
- 2015 | Staten Island Summeras Skootch
- 2015 |
- 2015 |
Inside Out
asForgetter Bobby
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.
- 2014 | Bread and Butteras Daniel Lodgen
- 2013 |
Delivery Man
asAleksy
An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.
- 2013 |
Monsters University
asChet
A look at the relationship between Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sully" Sullivan during their days at Monsters University, when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
- 2012 | The Brass Teapotas Chuck
- 2009 | Mystery Teamas Jordy
- 2002 | Economics 101as C.D.
- 1999 | Nine the Hard Wayas Stretch
Facts About Bobby Moynihan
Upright Citizen: Bobby Moynihan was a Shakespearean actor before discovering the comedy company, The Upright Citizens’ Brigade, whose member Amy Poehler provided him with a bartender gig in exchange for free classes with the Brigade.
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