Bill Murray

Bill Murray (born William James Murray) is an Emmy-winning actor and comedian. Murray participated in both his high school and community theater programs and after a brief stint in college, joined The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. He moved to New York in 1974 and was cast in the off-Broadway production The National Lampoon Radio Hour that same year.

The actor’s off-Broadway role gained him the attention of ABC, and in 1975 he joined Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. He later went on to join the cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 1977 following the cancellation of the ABC show a year prior. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series that same year.

Murray made a name for himself in the comedy world during his time on SNL and was cast in a number of comedy films, including Meatballs (1979), Scrooged (1988) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). He has also taken on a number of voice acting roles, lending his voice to films like The Jungle Book (2016) and Isle of Dogs (2018).

In 2004, he starred in the Sofia Coppola film Lost in Translation, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Some of his notable later works include Dumb and Dumber To (2014) and Ghostbusters (2016). In 2024, Murray appeared in the comedy Riff Raff alongside Jennifer Coolidge.

In 1981, the actor married Stripes costar Margaret Kelly, and the pair share sons Homer and Luke. The two divorced in 1996 after Murray’s alleged affair with Jennifer Butler. He wed to Butler the following year, and the two share sons Caleb, Jackson, Cooper, and Lincoln. Butler went on to file for divorce from Murray, and their split was finalized in 2008. He was briefly linked to singer Kelis in 2014.