Affable, charismatic and one of a kind, Fortune Feimster is a standup comedian, writer and actor who uses her confessional comedy to bring people together and she does it across many platforms. This North Carolina native is an accomplished standup comedian who performs sold out shows all over the world. It has resulted in three one-hour standup comedy specials on Netflix; "Sweet and Salty," "Good Fortune," and "Crushing It," two of which were nominated for a Critics Choice Award. As well as two half-hour standup specials on Netflix and Comedy Central.
Her acting career is vast. She recently starred alongside Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon in the hit Netflix series, "The Hawk." Before that, she had a lead role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Netflix action-comedy series, "Fubar." She’s been a series regular in "The Mindy Project" and "Champions," had recurring guest roles on "Life In Pieces" and "Kenan," and is in movies such as "Office Christmas Party," "Yes Day," "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar," "Family Switch," and most recently "The Dink" on Apple.
Fortune is also a co-member of the hit podcast Handsome along with Tig Notaro and Mae Martin, which has accumulated over 65 million downloads in three years. It recently won a GLAAD, Webby, and Signal Award and was recognized by Just For Laughs Montreal for Most Outstanding Podcast. And for the last seven years, she has co-hosted the Sirius XM "What A Joke Radio" show for Netflix alongside fellow comedian Tom Papa.
Her voice acting career continues to grow having recently voiced one of the lead roles, Nibbles Maplestick, in Disney’s highest grossing animated film of all time, "Zootopia 2." She was Gina in "Paw Patrol: the Dino Movie" and the refrigerator in "Gabby’s Dollhouse." Other notable projects include Pixar’s "Soul," HBO’s "Velma," "Craig of the Creek," "Summer Camp Island," "Ada Twist," "Frog and Toad," and Fox’s "The Simpsons" and "Bless the Harts." Next she can be heard in a recurring guest role on "King of the Hill."
You may have caught Fortune at one point as a guest on the late night talk shows from Colbert to Fallon to Conan. She appeared on Kelly Clarkson’s daytime talk show 10 times, and she was a week-long guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The latter being quite a full circle moment after having started her career as a full-time writer and panelist for four years on E!’s "Chelsea Lately." Regardless of where she is, one thing’s for certain, Fortune is out there making somebody laugh.
