Zachary Galifianakis

Zachary Knight Galifianakis Greek pronunciation born October 1st 1969) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and writer. He appeared in Comedy Central Presents special and hosted his own show Late World with Zach on VH1. Galifianakis is a regular in many films that include The Hangover Trilogy (2009-2013), Due Date (2010). The Campaign (2012), Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (2014) as well as Masterminds (2016). Galifianakis has voiced characters for animated films like Puss In Boots (2011) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). He also voices Missing Link (2019) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2211). Galifianakis is the host of the Funny or Die website chat show Between Two Ferns. Galifianakis starred on the FX series Baskets. He was nominated in 2017 for the Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series. Zachary Knight Galifianakis was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on October 1, 1969. He is the son of community center proprietor Mary Frances (nee Cashion) and heating oil merchant Harry Galifianakis. His mother is English and Scottish-Irish, whereas his paternal grandparents come from Crete. His father was an Greek Orthodox Christian and he was received a baptism. He has Merritt his younger sister, as well as Greg the older brother of his. The cousin of his is Washington Post cartoonist Nick Galifianakis as well as his uncle, also named Nick Galifianakis, is a politician. Galifianakis was a student at Wilkes Central High School, then went on to North Carolina State University, where he earned a degree in communications. While at university was working for a station that was accessible to the public. In 1991, he was a teacher in an waltz class and met Mary J. Blige. Galifianakis joined Saturday Night Live two weeks after he made his TV debut with Boston Common. Galifianakis claimed that he performed on Saturday Night Live for two week and Britney Spears was the host on one of those weeks. Will Ferrell was going on part as bodyguard to protect her belly button. Will and I were going to shrink Will down to accommodate the belly button. After I explained the idea to her, she simply looked at the sketch. Then she replied, "Yeah, that's funny." Galifianakis was co-starring in the movie Out Cold, and had minor parts in Corky Romano, Below, Bubble Boy, Heartbreakers, Into the Wild, Super High Me, Little Fish Strange Pond and Largo.