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Lamorne Morris
Lamorne Morris (born August 14, 1983) is an American actor and comedian. He has played the roles of Winston Bishop in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–2018), cartoonist Keef Knight in the Hulu comedy Woke (2020–2022), and State Trooper Whitley "Witt" Farr in the fifth season of Fargo, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He has also starred as Jerrod in Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), Officer Mikey Jameson in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and comedian Garrett Morris in Saturday Night (2024).
Morris has also had supporting roles in the comedies Game Night (2018), Yesterday (2019) and the Jumanji film series (2019–present).
He is set to play Robbie Robertson in the upcoming Prime Video superhero series Spider-Noir and will be voicing the titular character of the planned Paramount+ animated show Garfield.
Morris grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager he moved to the western suburb of Glen Ellyn, where he attended Glenbard South High School. Attorney and political candidate Qasim Rashid was a classmate of his. His mother worked for the United States Postal Service. He also has a brother, Devon. Before he discovered acting, Morris was a class clown who would frequently be sent to detention.
Morris graduated from the College of DuPage in 2003 where he studied theatre and received the Chris Farley Memorial Acting Scholarship. He also attended the Second City Training Center, and was a member of Second City's Outreach And Diversity Ensemble. While studying at Second City, Morris worked as a server at Ed Debevic's, a 1950s-nostalgia-themed restaurant where the servers act rude to the diners.
Morris appeared in commercials for State Farm Insurance, Taco Bell, Twix, Miller Lite, Las Vegas, 7 Up, Edge, Sears, Microsoft Windows, Chili's, McDonald's, Ford, and Hornitos Tequila. In 2019, he became the spokesperson for the Canadian-based Bank of Montreal and the Chicago-based Bank of Montreal subsidiary BMO Harris Bank.
Morris started out as an on-air personality for BET, hosting HotWyred, an interactive tech and gaming show as well as the daily music and entertainment news show BET Now in addition to other appearances. Morris also hosted the game show BrainRush on Cartoon Network as part of CN Real.
Morris's breakthrough came when he was cast as Winston Bishop in the comedy series New Girl on Fox (2011–2018). Morris did not appear until the second episode - originally, Damon Wayans Jr. was a member of the cast, in the role of Coach. However, Wayans's other comedy series, Happy Endings, had already been picked up for a second season on rival network ABC. The producers of New Girl initially planned to recast Wayans's role, but later decided not to recast and instead wrote his character out in the second episode. Morris cowrote the season 4 episode "Par 5" and directed the final season episode in which Winston reconnects with his dad, played by J.B. Smoove.
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Lamorne Morris
Lamorne Morris (born August 14, 1983) is an American actor and comedian. He has played the roles of Winston Bishop in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–2018), cartoonist Keef Knight in the Hulu comedy Woke (2020–2022), and State Trooper Whitley "Witt" Farr in the fifth season of Fargo, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He has also starred as Jerrod in Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016), Officer Mikey Jameson in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and comedian Garrett Morris in Saturday Night (2024).
Morris has also had supporting roles in the comedies Game Night (2018), Yesterday (2019) and the Jumanji film series (2019–present).
He is set to play Robbie Robertson in the upcoming Prime Video superhero series Spider-Noir and will be voicing the titular character of the planned Paramount+ animated show Garfield.
Morris grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager he moved to the western suburb of Glen Ellyn, where he attended Glenbard South High School. Attorney and political candidate Qasim Rashid was a classmate of his. His mother worked for the United States Postal Service. He also has a brother, Devon. Before he discovered acting, Morris was a class clown who would frequently be sent to detention.
Morris graduated from the College of DuPage in 2003 where he studied theatre and received the Chris Farley Memorial Acting Scholarship. He also attended the Second City Training Center, and was a member of Second City's Outreach And Diversity Ensemble. While studying at Second City, Morris worked as a server at Ed Debevic's, a 1950s-nostalgia-themed restaurant where the servers act rude to the diners.
Morris appeared in commercials for State Farm Insurance, Taco Bell, Twix, Miller Lite, Las Vegas, 7 Up, Edge, Sears, Microsoft Windows, Chili's, McDonald's, Ford, and Hornitos Tequila. In 2019, he became the spokesperson for the Canadian-based Bank of Montreal and the Chicago-based Bank of Montreal subsidiary BMO Harris Bank.
Morris started out as an on-air personality for BET, hosting HotWyred, an interactive tech and gaming show as well as the daily music and entertainment news show BET Now in addition to other appearances. Morris also hosted the game show BrainRush on Cartoon Network as part of CN Real.
Morris's breakthrough came when he was cast as Winston Bishop in the comedy series New Girl on Fox (2011–2018). Morris did not appear until the second episode - originally, Damon Wayans Jr. was a member of the cast, in the role of Coach. However, Wayans's other comedy series, Happy Endings, had already been picked up for a second season on rival network ABC. The producers of New Girl initially planned to recast Wayans's role, but later decided not to recast and instead wrote his character out in the second episode. Morris cowrote the season 4 episode "Par 5" and directed the final season episode in which Winston reconnects with his dad, played by J.B. Smoove.