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Zachary Knight Galifianakis (born October 1, 1969) is an American actor and comedian. He appeared in Comedy Central Presents special and presented his show Late World with Zach on VH1.

Zach Galifianakis
Galifianakis in 2012
Born	Zachary Knight Galifianakis (1969-10-01) October 1, 1969 (age 53) Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actor comedian
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Quinn Lundberg ​ ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	2
Relatives	Nick Galifianakis (uncle) Nick Galifianakis (cousin)

Galifianakis has starred in films including The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Due Date (2010), The Campaign (2012), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Masterminds (2016). He has also voiced characters in animated films such as Puss in Boots (2011), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Missing Link (2019), Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) and The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022).

Galifianakis currently hosts the Funny or Die website talk show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. He starred in the FX series Baskets and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2017.

Early life

Zachary Knight Galifianakis (Greek: Ζαχαρίας Γαλυφιανάκης;^{[citation needed]} /ˌɡælɪfəˈnækɪs/, Greek pronunciation: [ɣalifçaˈnacis]) was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on October 1, 1969.[1] The son of community arts center owner Mary Frances (née Cashion) and heating oil vendor Harry Galifianakis.[2] His mother is of Scots-Irish[3] and English descent, while his paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Crete.[4][5] He was baptized in his father's Greek Orthodox faith.[6][7][8][9] He has a younger sister, Merritt, and an older brother, Greg.[10] His cousin is Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis,[11] while his uncle, also named Nick Galifianakis, is a politician.[12] Galifianakis attended Wilkes Central High School, and subsequently attended North Carolina State University, where he majored in communications.[4] While in college, he worked at a public access station. He taught a waltz class in 1991 where he crossed paths with Mary J. Blige.[13]

Career

Early work

After his television debut Boston Common, Galifianakis joined Saturday Night Live for two weeks.[14] He has stated "I worked on Saturday Night Live for two weeks, and Britney Spears was the host one week when I was doing it. Wrote a sketch, Will Ferrell was going to play a bodyguard to her belly button, and we were going to shrink Will down to fit into a belly button. ...she just stared at me after I explained it to her. And then she finally goes 'Yeah that's funny.'" [15] Galifianakis co-starred in the film Out Cold, and had small roles in Corky Romano, Below, Bubble Boy, Heartbreakers, Into the Wild, Super High Me, Little Fish Strange Pond and Largo.

In September 2001, he appeared in an episode of Comedy Central Presents. It included a stand-up routine, a segment with a piano, and a cappella group The Night Owls (introduced as his "12 ex-girlfriends") singing "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles while he made jokes. In 2002, he hosted his own VH1 talk show called Late World with Zach. It featured many of his friends and regular performers from the LA comedy and music venue Largo where he appeared frequently during this time period. One episode featured Largo regulars Jon Brion and Rhett Miller as musical guests. He played Davis in the Fox drama series Tru Calling.[6] He appeared many times on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and played Frisbee in Reno 911!.

Galifianakis played Alan Finger on the Comedy Central show Dog Bites Man, a fake news program that caught people during candid moments thinking they were being interviewed by a real news crew. He also guest-starred in the episode of the Comedy Central show The Sarah Silverman Program as Fred the Homeless Guy. He also had a recurring guest role as a doctor on the animated Adult Swim show Tom Goes to the Mayor and appeared in several episodes of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! in a recurring role as Tairy Greene. In 2006, Galifianakis appeared in Fiona Apple's music video for the song "Not About Love", where he is seen lip-syncing the lyrics to the song. A year later, Kanye West employed Galifianakis and indie rock musician Will Oldham for similar purposes in the second version of the video for his song "Can't Tell Me Nothing". In June 2006, Galifianakis released the single "Come On and Get It (Up in 'Dem Guts)",[16] a comedic hip-hop dance song which features Apple's vocals.

Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and Maria Bamford, are the four Comedians of Comedy, a periodic packaged comedy tour in the style of The Original Kings of Comedy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. They chose to perform at live rock clubs as opposed to comedy clubs to try to reach a different audience. Much of the tour was taped and has been featured in both a short-lived TV series on Comedy Central and a full-length movie that has appeared at SXSW and on Showtime. On February 22, 2008, he made an appearance on the Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover. He interviewed various members of the Jackass cast. Galifianakis starred in first leading role in the independent film Visioneers which premiered in 2008.[17] The film which was released on direct-to-DVD. That same year, Galifianakis appeared in a web video series of advertisements for Absolut vodka, along with Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creating a parody of the Golden Girls in which one has a deep anger issue, breaking the fourth wall in exasperation and outright violence on the set.[18] He also completed the pilot Speed Freaks for Comedy Central.

Zach's 2006 stand-up concert film Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion was one of the first original programs from Netflix.[19]

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Galifianakis has a series of videos on the Funny or Die website titled Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis where he conducts interviews with popular celebrities between two potted ferns. He has interviewed Jimmy Kimmel,[20] Michael Cera, Jon Hamm,[21] Natalie Portman,[22] Charlize Theron, Bradley Cooper, Carrot Top, Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Andy Dick, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis, Tila Tequila, Jennifer Aniston, Will Ferrell, Samuel L. Jackson, Tobey Maguire, Arcade Fire, Justin Bieber, Brie Larson, David Letterman, former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Brad Pitt.[23] His interview style consists of typical interview questions, bizarre non sequiturs, awkward product endorsements and sometimes inappropriate sexual questions and comments.[24] Galifianakis won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program as a producer of the show at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Mainstream performances

Galifianakis played Alan Garner in the hit comedy The Hangover and earned the MTV Movie Award for the Best Comedic Performance.[25] He was also prominently advertised in subsequent films that featured him in supporting roles, such as G-Force, Youth in Revolt and Up in the Air.

Galifianakis starred in the HBO series Bored to Death and hosted Saturday Night Live on March 6, 2010 during the show's 35th season, during which he shaved his beard mid-show for a sketch, and closed the show wearing a fake one.[26] He hosted again on March 12, 2011 and shaved his head this time, in a Mr. T-like hairstyle, which was allegedly supposed to be used for a sketch that never aired due to time constraints.[27]

In 2010, he starred in several films, including Dinner for Schmucks, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and Due Date.[28] On October 29, 2010, while debating marijuana legalization on the show HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Galifianakis appeared to have smoked marijuana on live television;[29] host Bill Maher denied that it was real marijuana in an interview with Wolf Blitzer during an episode of The Situation Room. In 2011, he reprised his role for The Hangover Part II, which was set in Thailand[30] and voiced Humpty Dumpty in Puss in Boots. Galifianakis starred alongside Will Ferrell in Jay Roach's 2012 political comedy The Campaign.[31] He received critical praise for his performance in the 2014 film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), in which he starred with Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton. In 2017, Galifianakis voiced The Joker in The Lego Batman Movie.[32]

Charity work

In January 2014, Galifianakis and his Night of a Thousand Vaginas co-star Sarah Silverman announced their intention to raise $20,000 to help fund the Texas Abortion Fund, part of a nationwide network of funds set up to assist women in obtaining abortions in states whose legislatures had placed restrictions on the practice. The fundraiser was set up in response to the passage of Texas H.B. 2, which established several restrictions that forced a majority of the state's abortion clinics to close.[33]

Galifianakis befriended Marie "Mimi" Haist, a homeless woman in her 80s who was living in a Santa Monica laundromat for 18 years, and bought her an apartment across the street from the laundromat. The story was revealed in the 2015 documentary Queen Mimi.[34]

Personal life

In August 2012, Galifianakis married Canadian charity worker Quinn Lundberg at the UBC Farm in Vancouver. They have two sons together: one born on September 7, 2013 (Galifianakis skipped the premiere of his film Are You Here to attend the birth)[35] and another born on November 7, 2016.[36]

Galifianakis has a house in Venice, Los Angeles and previously lived in Brooklyn.[37][38]Galifianakis owns a farm in Sparta, North Carolina,[39] and splits his time between the farm and his work. He said, "My farm is a place that I get to think clearly and pretend to know what I am doing."[40] He also resides in an island in British Columbia, Canada.[41]

In 2022 Zach became the godfather to his niece Katerina.[42]

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Flushed	Pathetic Guy
2001	Heartbreakers	Bill
	Bubble Boy	Bus Stop Man
	Corky Romano	Dexter
	Out Cold	Luke
2002	Below	Weird Wally
	Stella shorts	Santa	Short film
2005	The Comedians of Comedy	Himself	Stand-up tour documentary
	Zach Galifianakis: Look Who It Isn't		Self-released stand-up DVD
2006	Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion		Stand-up special
2007	The Comedians of Comedy: Live at The Troubadour		Stand-up Tour concert video
	Into the Wild	Kevin Wallis
2008	What Happens in Vegas	Dave the bear
	Visioneers	George
2009	The Ballad of G.I. Joe	Snow Job	Short film
	Gigantic	Homeless Guy
	The Hangover	Alan Garner
	G-Force	Ben Kendell	Also in the video game
	Up in the Air	Steve Sewa
	Operation: Endgame	Hermit
	Little Fish, Strange Pond	Bucky
	Youth in Revolt	Jerry
2010	Dinner for Schmucks	Therman Murch
	It's Kind of a Funny Story	Bobby
	Due Date	Ethan Tremblay / Ethan Chase / Stu
2011	The Hangover Part II	Alan Garner
	Puss in Boots	Humpty Dumpty	Voice only
	The Muppets	Hobo Joe
2012	Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie	Jim Joe Kelly
	The Campaign	Marty Huggins	Also producer
2013	The Hangover Part III	Alan Garner
2014	Are You Here	Ben Baker
	Muppets Most Wanted	Hobo Joe	Cameo
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Jake
2016	Masterminds	David Ghantt
	Keeping Up with the Joneses	Jeff Gaffney
2017	The Lego Batman Movie	The Joker	Voice only
	Batman is Just Not That Into You		Voice only Short film
	Tulip Fever	Gerrit
2018	A Wrinkle in Time	The Happy Medium
2019	The Sunlit Night	Haldor
	Missing Link	Mr. Link/Susan	Voice only
	Between Two Ferns: The Movie	Himself	Also writer/producer
2021	Ron's Gone Wrong	Ron	Voice only
2022	The Bob's Burgers Movie	Felix Fischoeder	Voice only
TBA	The Beanie Bubble		Filming
TBA	Winner		Filming[43]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996–1997	Boston Common	Bobby	5 episodes
1997	Apartment 2F	Zach	5 episodes
2002	Late World with Zach	Himself (host)	36 episodes
2002	Next!	Various characters	Pilot, also writer
2003–2005	Tru Calling	Davis	27 episodes
2005–2007	Reno 911!	Frisbee	4 episodes
2006	Dog Bites Man	Alan Finger	9 episodes; also writer and producer
2006	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Dr. Vickerson (voice)	2 episodes
2006	Wonder Showzen	Uncle Daddy (voice)	Episode: "Horse Apples"
2007	The Sarah Silverman Program	Fred Blorth	Episode: "Humanitarian of the Year"
2007–2010	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Tairy Greene / Various characters	7 episodes
2008–present	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Himself (host)	22 episodes
2008	Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover	Himself (uncredited)	Television special; "Hour 12, 13 & 14"
2009–2010	American Dad!	Heavyset man / Norman / Juror (voices)	2 episodes
2009–2011	Bored to Death	Ray Hueston	24 episodes
2010	Funny or Die Presents	Cast (Just 3 Boyz)	Episode #1.10
2010–2013	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	3 episodes
2012–present	Bob's Burgers	Chet / Felix (voices)	13 episodes
2012–2016	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself / Santa Claus	5 episodes
2013	Kroll Show	Various characters	Episode: "The Greatest Hits of It"
2013	The Chris Gethard Show	Himself	Episode: "Who Wants a Haircut"
2013–2014	Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories	Zach	2 episodes
2013–2014	Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!	Himself	12 episodes
2013	Arcade Fire in Here Comes The Night Time	Captain Zach	Television special
2014	The Simpsons	Lucas Bortner (voice)	Episode: "Luca$"
2014	TripTank	Jack the Janitor (voice)	Episode: "Crossing the Line"
2016–2019	Baskets	Chip Baskets / Dale Baskets	40 episodes; also co-creator, writer and executive producer
2016	Bajillion Dollar Propertie$	The Bloodhound	Episode: "Victoria Awakens"
2020	Dicktown	Charlie (voice)	Episode: "The Mystery of the Controversial Cosplay"
2020–2021	Big Mouth	Gratitoad (voice)	3 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	G-Force	Ben (voice)

Music videos

Year	Title	Role	Artist
2007	"Not About Love"	Fiona Apple	Fiona Apple
2007	"Can't Tell Me Nothing"	Himself	Kanye West
2012	"Outta My System"	Wizard	My Morning Jacket
2013	"Spring Break Anthem"	Himself	The Lonely Island

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
Annie Awards	2012	Best Voice Acting in a Feature Production	Puss in Boots	Nominated	[44]
	2018		The Lego Batman Movie	Nominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards	2015	Best Acting Ensemble	Birdman	Won	[45]
MTV Movie & TV Awards	2010	Best Breakout Star	The Hangover	Nominated	[44]
		Best Comedic Performance		Won
	2011		Due Date	Nominated
	2012		The Hangover Part II	Nominated
	2013	Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Will Ferrell)	The Campaign	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards	2011	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated	[46]
	2013	Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Nominated
	2014			Won
	2015			Won
	2017	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Baskets	Nominated
	2020	Outstanding Short Form Variety Series	Between Two Ferns: The Movie	Nominated
Satellite Awards	2018	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy	Baskets	Nominated	[44]
Screen Actors Guild Awards	2015	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Birdman	Won	[47]
Streamy Awards	2010	Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series	Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis	Won	[44]
	2014	Best Collaboration (shared with Barack Obama)		Won

References

External links

• Zach Galifianakis at IMDb
• Zach Galifianakis on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about Zach Galifianakis in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

На других языках

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[de] Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis (* 1. Oktober 1969 in Wilkesboro, North Carolina als Zacharius Knight Galifianakis)[1] ist ein US-amerikanischer Komiker und Filmschauspieler. Bekannt ist er für seinen unkonventionellen Stand-up-Stil. Einem internationalen Publikum wurde er vor allem durch die Golden-Globe-prämierte Komödie Hangover bekannt.

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[es] Zach Galifianakis

Zachary Knight Galifianakis (Wilkesboro, Carolina del Norte, 1 de octubre de 1969), conocido como Zach Galifianakis, es un actor y comediante estadounidense, célebre por numerosos papeles en películas y apariciones en televisión, incluido su propio programa Comedy Central Presents Special. Inicialmente apenas si fue considerado como un comediante underground, pero en 2009 ganó una considerable popularidad gracias a su actuación en la exitosa comedia The Hangover.

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[ru] Галифианакис, Зак

За́кари Найт (Зак) Галифиана́кис (англ. Zachary Knight "Zach" Galifianakis; род. 1 октября 1969[1]) — американский актёр, комик, сценарист и продюсер. Наиболее известен по фильмам «Мальчишник в Вегасе», «Мальчишник 2: Из Вегаса в Бангкок», «Мальчишник: Часть III» и «Впритык».

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