Early life

Meyers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was raised in Okemos, Michigan from ages 4-10 and Bedford, New Hampshire after that. His mother, Hilary Claire (née Olson), was a French teacher, and his father, Laurence Meyers, Jr., worked in finance. His younger brother is actor Josh Meyers. His paternal grandfather was Jewish, and although Meyers has performed at several Jewish Community Centers, he does not consider himself Jewish. His other ancestry is Czech-Austrian (from his paternal grandmother), Swedish, English, and German. Meyers attended Edgewood Elementary in Okemos and later graduated from Manchester High School West in New Hampshire. He then attended and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, where he became a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta.

Career

Before SNL, Meyers got his improv comedy start as a member of the Northwestern University improv sketch group Mee-Ow. He continued his career at ImprovOlympic with the group Preponderate as well as overseas as a cast member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam, where his brother was also a cast member.

Meyers appeared with Brendan Fraser and Anita Briem in the 2008 3D film Journey to the Center of the Earth. He also makes a cameo in the 2008 film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist as a drunk man who mistakes the main character's Yugo for a taxi. He starred in the 2004 comedy See This Movie with John Cho. In July 2008, Meyers directed the web series The Line on Crackle. Meyers has hosted the Webby Awards twice, in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, Meyers hosted the Microsoft Company Meeting at Safeco Field in Seattle. Meyers hosted the 2010 and 2011 ESPY Awards on ESPN. In April 2011, Seth Meyers was the keynote speaker at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. During his introductory remarks, he made a joke about Osama bin Laden's actions while in hiding; namely, that bin Laden was hosting his own afternoon television show on CSPAN. Meyers was unaware that US intelligence had located bin Laden and the Navy SEALs planned an attack the next day.

Saturday Night Live

Meyers joined the SNL cast in 2001. In 2005, he was promoted to writing supervisor, and in January 2006 he became co-head writer, sharing the role with Tina Fey and Andrew Steele. In 2004, he auditioned to co-anchor "Weekend Update" with Fey, but lost to Amy Poehler. With Fey's departure, Meyers became head writer for the 2006-2007 season and also assumed the role of Weekend Update co-anchor with Amy Poehler. After Poehler's departure, Meyers anchored solo between 2008 and 2013. In the 2013-2014 season, Cecily Strong joined Meyers as co-anchor. In fall 2009, Meyers co-anchored two episodes of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday with Poehler.

While appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman during the 2008 United States presidential election, former SNL cast member Tina Fey credited Meyers with writing the sketches involving Fey's impression of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

On SNL, Meyers has impersonated such figures as John Kerry, Michael Caine, Anderson Cooper, Carrot Top, Prince Charles, Ryan Seacrest, Sean Penn, Stone Phillips, Tobey Maguire, Peyton Manning, Ben Curtis (also known as the Dell Dude), Ty Pennington, Bill Cowher, Brian Williams, Nicollette Sheridan, Wade Robson, Donald Trump, Jr., Tom Cruise, and Kevin Federline. His recurring characters included Zach Ricky, host of the kids' hidden camera show "Pranksters"; Nerod, the receptionist in the recurring sketch "Appalachian Emergency Room"; David Zinger, a scientist who often insults his fellow workers; DJ Johnathan Feinstein, the DJ on the webcam show "Jarett's Room"; Dan Needler, half of a married couple "that should be divorced," (opposite Amy Poehler); William Fitzpatrick, from the Irish talk show "Top o' the Morning," and Boston Powers (one of the comedians in the "Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy" series). In the season 29 episode hosted by Lindsay Lohan, he portrayed Ron Weasley in a parody of Harry Potter.

Meyers supported and picketed during the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike. When interviewed, he said, "We all know how lucky we are to have the jobs we have. We're not asking for much. You have to change the rules because people are watching TV in a different way." Even so, he mentioned in interviews that he regretted missing much of the presidential election primary season.

Meyers performed in his final episode of SNL February 1, 2014. Strong, Poehler, Bill Hader in character as Stefon, Andy Samberg, and Fred Armisen as Governor David Paterson joined him at the Weekend Update desk.

Late Night

NBC announced May 12, 2013, that Meyers would be the new host of Late Night in 2014 succeeding Jimmy Fallon, as Fallon became host of The Tonight Show. Meyers assumed his role on Late Night February 24, 2014 and his first guest was fellow SNL alumnus and Weekend Update anchor Amy Poehler. Meyers announced February 10, 2014, that the bandleader for his house band "The 8G Band" would be Meyers' former SNL colleague Fred Armisen.

Other pursuits

Meyers won the third season of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2009, and donated the $100,000 prize to the Boston-based Jimmy Fund. In 2008, Meyers donated over $4,000 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Meyers and SNL castmate Bill Hader penned a Spider-Man one-off entitled The Short Halloween. It was illustrated by Kevin Maguire and was published May 29, 2009. Benjamin Birdie of Comic Book Resources gave the work three and a half stars on a scale of five. Meyers, along with Mike Shoemaker of SNL, created an animated half-hour series entitled The Awesomes, produced by Lorne Michaels' company, Broadway Video, that aired on Hulu.com beginning August 2013.

In 2014 Meyers hosted the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Personal life

Meyers became engaged to his girlfriend of five years, human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe, in July 2013. The two married September 1, 2013, on Martha's Vineyard. Meyers's representative confirmed on November 21, 2015 that the couple were expecting a child. Their son, Ashe Olsen, was born at Lenox Hill Hospital on March 27, 2016.

Meyers is a fan of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Pirates (his father being a Pittsburgh native), the Northwestern Wildcats (his alma mater), the Dutch National Football Team and football club West Ham United in the Premier League. He is also a fan of Joe Hill's supernatural comic book series, Locke & Key. IDW Publishing gave him some of the replica keys they had licensed.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	See This Movie	Jake Barrymore
2004	Maestro	Tim Healy	Short film
2004	Thunder Road	Voice Over	Short film
2005	Perception	Steven
2005	The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and his Little Friend	Disgruntled Dork	Short film
2006	American Dreamz	Chet Krogl
2008	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Professor Alan Kitzens
2008	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Drunk Guy in Yugo
2009	Spring Breakdown	William Rushfield
2011	I Don't Know How She Does It	Chris Bunce
2011	New Year's Eve	Griffin
2014	The Interview	Himself	Cameo

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Spin City	Doug	Episode "Rain on My Charades"
2001-2014	Saturday Night Live	Himself, Various	253 episodes; Also Head Writer
2008-2012	Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday	Himself	8 episodes; Also Head Writer
2010	2010 ESPY Awards	Himself (host)	TV Special
2011	White House Correspondents' Dinner	Himself (host)	TV Special
2011	2011 ESPY Awards	Himself (host)	TV Special
2012-2016	The Mindy Project	Matt / Himself	2 episodes
2013	The Office	Himself	Episode: "Finale"
2013-2015	The Awesomes	Prock (voice)	Also Creator, Writer, Executive Producer
2014-present	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Himself (host)	Also Writer, Executive Producer
2014	66th Primetime Emmy Awards	Himself (host)	TV Special
2015	4th Annual NFL Honors	Himself (host)	TV Special
2015	Portlandia	Chad Koop	Episode "Dead Pets"
2015	Difficult People	Guy at The Dog Park	Episode "Premium Membership"

As a crew member

Year	Title	Notes
2007	Hot Rod	Co-producer
2010	MacGruber	Executive producer
2013	70th Golden Globe Awards	Writer
2014	71st Golden Globe Awards	Writer
2015	72nd Golden Globe Awards	Writer
2015	Documentary Now!	Co-Creator, Writer, Executive Producer

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result
2008	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2009	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Won
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2010	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Won
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
2011	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics	Saturday Night Live for "Justin Timberlake Monologue"	Won
2012	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Ensemble	New Year's Eve	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics	Saturday Night Live for "I Can't Believe I'm Hosting"	Nominated
2013	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	70th Golden Globe Awards	Nominated
2014	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (including talk) series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	71st Golden Globe Awards	Nominated
2015	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - Series	Saturday Night Live	Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (Music, Awards, Tributes) - Specials	71st Golden Globe Awards	Won
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	72nd Golden Globe Awards	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special	Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special	Nominated
2016	Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety (Music, Awards, Tributes) - Specials	Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special	Nominated
	GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Talk Show Epsiode	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Nominated

Charities

Seth Meyers supports the following charitable cause: ALS (amyrotrophic lateral sclerosis).

[ Source: Wikipedia ]