Zachary Galifianakis
Zachary Knight Galifianakis Greek
pronunciation (born October 1, 1969): American comedian, comedian, musician,
and writer. He was a comedian, actor, and presenter of Late World with Zach
(VH1) Galifianakis has been in films that include The Hangover trilogy
(2009-2013), Due Date (2010), The Campaign (2012), Birdman or (The Unexpected
Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Masterminds (2016). Galifianakis has voiced
characters in animated films such as Puss In Boots (2011) and The Lego Batman
Movie (2017). He also voices Missing Link (2019) and Ron's Gone wrong (2211).
Galifianakis currently hosts the Funny or Die website talk show Between Two
Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. Galifianakis has appeared in the FX series
Baskets. He was nominated in 2017 for the Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Zachary Knight Galifianakis was born in
Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on October 1, 1969. He is the child of the
community arts center proprietor Mary Frances (nee Cashion) and heating oil vendor
Harry Galifianakis. His mother is English and Scottish-Irish. his paternal
grandparents come from Crete. The baptism was performed according to the Greek
Orthodox faith of his father. He has Merritt who is a younger sibling and Greg,
a brother older than him. The cousin of his Nick Galifianakis (Washington Post
cartoonist) is his uncle. Galifianakis was a student at Wilkes Central High
School, and then attended North Carolina State University, where he studied
communications. He worked as an operator for a radio at an access station that
was public at college. In the year 1991, he taught the class of waltz and was
introduced to Mary J. Blige. Galifianakis was on Saturday Night Live two weeks
after his TV debut on Boston Common. Galifianakis claimed that he performed for
Saturday Night Live for two week and Britney Spears was the host on one of
those weeks. Created a sketch. Will Ferrell was going to play a bodyguard on
her belly button and we'd have reduce Will down to fit a belly button. ...she
looked at me in a blank stare as I explained it to her. Then she said,
"Yeah that is funny." Galifianakis co-starred in the film 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.
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