Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer and director. He is the creator, producer, writer, occasional director and star of the HBO dark comedy series Barry (2018-present), for which he has won two and been nominated for three Emmy Awards for both of its first two seasons.
Hader’s initial success was for the eight-year stint (2005-2013) as a cast member on the long-running NBC variety series Saturday Night Live, for which he received four Emmy Award nominations and a Peabody Award. He became known for his impressions and especially work for his work on Weekend Update segments, in which he played Stefon Meyers, a flamboyant New York tour guide who recommends nightclubs and parties with bizarre characters with unusual tastes. He is also the star, co-creator, and producer of the IFC mockumentary comedy series Documentary Now! (2015-present).
Hader has had supporting roles in films Hot Rod (2007), Superbad (2007), Tropic Thunder (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Adventureland (both 2009), Paul (2011), and Men in Black 3 (2012), as well as leading roles in The Skeleton Twins (2014), Trainwreck (2015) and as an adult Richie Tozier in It: Chapter Two (2019). He has also voiced leading and supporting characters in animated films such as the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise (2009-2014), Turbo (2013), Monsters University (2013), Inside Out (2015), Finding Dory (2016), The Angry Birds Movie (2016 and its sequel (2019), Sausage Party (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).