Zachary Knight Galifianakis is an American comedian and actor.
33 Facts About Zach Galifianakis
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Zach Galifianakis hosted the Funny or Die talk show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.
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Zach Galifianakis has voiced characters in animated films such as Puss in Boots, The Lego Batman Movie, Missing Link, Ron's Gone Wrong and The Bob's Burgers Movie.
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Zachary Knight Galifianakis was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on October 1,1969.
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Zach Galifianakis is the son of community arts center director Mary Frances and heating oil vendor Harry Galifianakis.
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Zach Galifianakis's mother is of Scots-Irish and English descent, while his paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants from Crete.
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Zach Galifianakis was baptized in his father's Greek Orthodox faith.
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Zach Galifianakis has a younger sister, Merritt, and an older brother, Greg.
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Zach Galifianakis's cousin is Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis, while his uncle, named Nick Galifianakis, was a Durham attorney and politician.
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Zach Galifianakis attended Wilkes Central High School, Wilkes Community College and subsequently attended North Carolina State University, where he majored in communications.
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Zach Galifianakis taught a waltz class in 1991 where he crossed paths with Mary J Blige.
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Zach Galifianakis played Davis in the Fox drama series Tru Calling.
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Zach 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.
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Zach Galifianakis guest-starred in the episode of the Comedy Central show The Sarah Silverman Program as Fred the Homeless Guy.
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In 2006, Zach 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.
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In June 2006, Zach Galifianakis released the single "Come On and Get It ", a comedic hip-hop dance song which features Apple's vocals.
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Zach Galifianakis starred in first leading role in the independent film Visioneers which premiered in 2008.
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That same year, Zach 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.
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Zach Galifianakis completed the pilot Speed Freaks for Comedy Central.
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Zach Galifianakis has interviewed Jimmy Kimmel, Michael Cera, Jon Hamm, Natalie Portman, 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, Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves.
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Zach 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.
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Zach Galifianakis played Alan Garner in the hit comedy The Hangover and earned the MTV Movie Award for the Best Comedic Performance.
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Zach Galifianakis was prominently advertised in subsequent films that featured him in supporting roles, such as G-Force, Youth in Revolt and Up in the Air.
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Zach 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.
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Zach Galifianakis 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.
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On October 29,2010, while debating marijuana legalization on the show HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Zach Galifianakis appeared to have smoked marijuana on live television; host Bill Maher denied that it was real marijuana in an interview with Wolf Blitzer during an episode of The Situation Room.
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Zach Galifianakis starred alongside Will Ferrell in Jay Roach's 2012 political comedy The Campaign.
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Zach Galifianakis received critical praise for his performance in the 2014 film Birdman or, in which he starred with Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton.
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In 2017, Zach Galifianakis voiced The Joker in The Lego Batman Movie.
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Zach 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.
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Zach Galifianakis has a house in Venice, Los Angeles and previously lived in Brooklyn.
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Zach Galifianakis owns a farm in Sparta, North Carolina, and splits his time between the farm and his work.
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In 2022 Zach Galifianakis became the godfather to his cousin Nick's daughter Katerina.