Bobby Moynihan (birthname: Robert Michael Moynihan Jr.) is best known as a veteran player on Saturday Night Live from 2008 to 2017 with an especial talent for impersonation, making his feature film debut as co-lead in director/writer/producer Christian Victor Levatino’s $200 indie crime movie,
Nine the Hard Way (1999), followed by a co-lead role in another low-budget indie feature, director/writer/producer Gerald Sprayregen’s
Economics 101 (2002).
Moynihan played a supporting role in director/co-writer Dan Eckman’s and star/co-writer Donald Glover’s comedy premiering at Sundance and released by Roadside Attractions,
Mystery Team (2009), and continued in supporting roles in co-directors/co-writers
Ricky Gervais’ and Matthew Robinson’s
The Invention of Lying (2009) for Warners Bros/Focus Features; in director/producer Mark Steven Johnson’s Disney/Touchstone Pictures romcom,
When in Rome (2010), with Kristen Bell and
Josh Duhamel; in writer/producer Mike O’Malley’s stage-to-screen adaptation,
Certainty (2011); and in director Ramas Mosley’s and writer Tim Macy’s fantasy comedy for Magnolia Pictures,
The Brass Teapot (2012), with Juno Temple and Michael Angarano.
Moynihan landed his first voice role in a studio animated movie, Disney/Pixar’s
Monsters University (2013), with the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Helen Mirren under co-writer Dan Scanlon’s direction, and which grossed $743.6 million, and which launched Moynihan on a string of voice roles in director/co-writer/producer Juan Jose Campanella’s Argentine-Spanish soccer comedy,
Underdogs (2015); in the hit Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures’ hit,
The Secret Life of Pets (2016), grossing a spectacular $885.3 million worldwide, and its sequel also directed by
Chris Renaud,
The Secret Lives of Pets 2 (2019), earning $431 million; a co-starring role in the American-Canadian-South Korean comedy,
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017); Disney/Pixar’s spectacularly successful sequel, director/co-writer
Kelsey Mann’s Inside Out 2 (2024), starring
Amy Poehler and grossing $1.7 billion; and a co-starring role in Disney/Pixar’s original directed and written by Daniel Chong,
Hoppers (2026), with the voices of Piper Curda,
Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco and Meryl Streep.
Bobby Moynihan’s live-action roles have included supporting or co-lead parts in director/co-writer Ken Scott’s comedy-drama for Disney/Touchstone Pictures,
Delivery Man (2013), starring Vince Vaughn; in co-star/writer/producer Nick Kroll’s comedy-drama,
Adult Beginners (2014), with Rose Byrne; in director/co-writer/producer
Will Gluck’s stage-to-film musical adaptation,
Annie (2014), starring Jamie Foxx, grossing $137 million for Columbia Pictures/Sony Releasing; in the indie romcom,
Slow Learners (2015); in the
Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy hit for Universal Pictures, Sisters (2015), directed by
Jason Moore; a top role in the Paramount-released comedy,
Brother Nature (2016), with former SNL co-players Taran Killam (who co-wrote) and Kenan Thompson and
Kumail Nanjiani, Rita Wilson and Bill Pullman, which was followed by director/writer/producer Killam’s mockumentary,
Killing Gunter (2017), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; in
Kevin Smith’s sequel for Lionsgate,
Clerks III (2022); in director/writer/producer/co-star
John Krasinski’s fantasy comedy for Paramount Pictures, IF (2024), with
Cailey Fleming,
Ryan Reynolds (who also produced), and
Steve Carell.
