---
name: "Lamorne Morris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lamorne-morris"
fi1m_id: "lamorne-morris"
imdb_id: "nm2031358"
tmdb_id: 1181327
wikidata_id: "Q500628"
roles: ["Actor","Director"]
born: "14 August 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-23T04:11:49.770096+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lamorne Morris

## Identity

Lamorne Morris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lamorne-morris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lamorne-morris
- **IMDb ID:** nm2031358
- **TMDB ID:** 1181327
- **Wikidata ID:** Q500628
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamorne_Morris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500628, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2031358/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181327

Actor and director. Born 14 August 1983 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Director
- **Born:** 14 August 1983, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 4 acting, 1 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Matt Shakman](https://film.one/person/matt-shakman.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 72 (4), 2020s 67 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 61 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Crime 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Adventure 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $956m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamorne_Morris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500628, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2031358/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1181327

## Coming up

- *DreamQuil* (2026-10-29)
- *Jumanji: Open World* (2026-12-23), as Heater Repair Guy — [page](https://film.one/film/jumanji-open-world.md)
- *Not Alone* (2027-03-18), as (voice)

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Fargo*](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*New Girl*](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md) (80)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Spider-Noir*](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Lamorne Morris

> Morris is the one in the scene who is telling the truth and not making a fuss about it. Comedy taught him timing; *Fargo* showed he could hold it still. The parts have not yet caught up with him.

Put Lamorne Morris in a scene with more famous people in it and he is usually the one listening. In the fifth season of *Fargo* (2023–2024), while Jennifer Jason Leigh says unforgivable things at breakfast and Sam Spruell's Ole Munch frightens everyone, his Deputy Witt Farr and Richa Moorjani's Indira Olmstead are the officers who do the work. He does not raise his voice to be noticed. He waits, and the scene turns out to have needed him.

He began as a presenter, hosting on BET in 2006 and Cartoon Network in 2009, after training at Second City in Chicago, and for seven seasons of *New Girl* (2011–2018) he was Winston Bishop, the member of the ensemble most likely to take a small joke somewhere odd and keep going. That is what the improv background does for him: he plays the timing rather than the line. The film comedies that followed, *Barbershop: The Next Cut* (2016) and *Game Night* (2018), used him as a supporting player, and *Woke* (2020–2022) gave him a lead. Then Noah Hawley put him in *Fargo* and asked him to be serious. "It just felt great to get serious," he said afterwards, and it shows.

What he brings to drama is plain kindness, which is rarer on screen than it sounds. In a season built on people lying to each other, a man who turns up, does his job and is visibly decent moved us more than we had bargained for, and it is Morris's stillness that does it. He does not act kind. He simply declines to act anything else, and in that company it reads as courage.

*Spider-Noir* (2026) shows the risk. He gives Joe Robertson a decency the series keeps underusing; the show hands him a good man and then forgets to give the good man anything to do while Nicolas Cage's private eye takes the case. That is not his failing, but it is the trap for an actor whose gift is being trustworthy. Writers put the moral centre in his hands and then leave him standing there holding it.

*Saturday Night* (2024) we have not reviewed, so we will only note it is there. What we would like to see next is a script that asks whether the decent man is right. He has spent a decade making it easy to believe him. Someone should give him a reason to lie.

## Biography

Lamorne Morris is an American actor and comedian. He grew up in Chicago and attended Glenbard South High School. He began his career in television as an on-air personality for BET and hosted the Cartoon Network game show BrainRush in 2009.

Morris is best known for playing Winston Bishop in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–2018), in which he also wrote and directed episodes. He portrayed State Trooper Witt Farr in the fifth season of Fargo (2023–2024), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. His film roles include Kevin in Game Night (2018), the Head of Marketing in Yesterday (2019) and supporting parts in Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) and Bloodshot (2020).

In 2026 he plays Joe 'Robbie' Robertson in the Prime Video series Spider-Noir.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

### Performed in (4) — the average rests on these

- *Spider-Noir* (2026), Fi1m 67, as Joe 'Robbie' Robertson — [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *Jumanji: The Next Level* (2019), Fi1m 65, as Heater Repair Guy — [page](https://film.one/film/jumanji-the-next-level.md)
- *Yesterday* (2019), Fi1m 60, as Head of Marketing — [page](https://film.one/film/yesterday.md)
- *Fargo* (2014), Fi1m 82, as North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr — [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)

### Directed (1)

- *New Girl* (2011), Fi1m 80, as Winston Bishop — [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Not Alone* (2027), as (voice)
- *Jumanji: Open World* (2026), as Heater Repair Guy — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/jumanji-open-world.md)
- *DreamQuil* (2026), Actor
- *The Sun Never Sets* (2026), as Jack's Friend
- *Spider-Noir* (2026), series, as Joe 'Robbie' Robertson — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *Aimee Comes First* (2025), Actor
- *Poppa's House* (2024), series, as Todd
- *Saturday Night* (2024), as Garrett Morris
- *Not Another Church Movie* (2024), as Monte Carlo
- *Unstable* (2023), series, as Peter
- *Night Shift* (2023), as Teddy Miles
- *I Am Phenomenal* (2022), as Jordan Bishop
- *The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder* (2022), series, as Lamorne Morris (voice)
- *Alice's Wonderland Bakery* (2022), series, as Dandy (voice)
- *Death of a Telemarketer* (2021), as Kasey Miller · Executive Producer
- *Ghosts* (2021), series, as Saul
- *How It Ends* (2021), as Larry
- *Eat Wheaties!* (2020), as Sam Haller
- *Woke* (2020), series, as Keef
- *Desperados* (2020), as Sean
- *Solar Opposites* (2020), series, as Calvin / Benny (voice), Gutterville Resident (voice)
- *19 Weeks* (2020), as Adult Elegba
- *Bloodshot* (2020), as Wilfred Wigans
- *Jumanji: The Next Level* (2019), as Heater Repair Guy — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/jumanji-the-next-level.md)
- *Human Discoveries* (2019), series, as Trog (voice)
- *Yesterday* (2019), as Head of Marketing — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/yesterday.md)
- *Valley of the Boom* (2019), series, as Darrin Morris
- *The Christmas Chronicles* (2018), as Mikey Jameson
- *Game Night* (2018), as Kevin
- *No Activity* (2017), series, as Officer Cooper (voice)
- *Sandy Wexler* (2017), as Bling
- *Barbershop: The Next Cut* (2016), as Jerrod
- *Glitch* (2015), as Danny
- *Your Hands* (2015), as Mr. Dreams
- *Sex Ed* (2014), as Bobby
- *Fargo* (2014), series, as North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)
- *Dear Secret Santa* (2013), as Jack
- *Lucas Bros. Moving Co.* (2013), series, as Karlton
- *White T* (2013), as Woody
- *New Girl* (2011), series, as Winston Bishop · Writer, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)
- *The Middle* (2009), series, as Salesman
- *BrainRush* (2009), series, as Host
- *April Fools* (2007), as Melvin
- *The Guild* (2007), series, as Craven
- *Jacob Beats Up Nate*, as Jacob Mann · Executive Producer
- *The Ridge*, Actor
- *The Swimming Lesson*, as Caleb
- *Garfield*, series, as Garfield (voice)
- *The Girlfriend*, Actor
- *Unwanted*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Lamorne Morris](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-d0f7b92bc5bf.jpg) Lamorne Morris — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Lamorne_Morris_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Lamorne_Morris_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anthony King and Lamorne Morris speaking at the 2022 WonderCon, for "Woke", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Sk](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-40e50b35fb74.jpg) Anthony King and Lamorne Morris speaking at the 2022 WonderCon, for "Woke", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Sk — Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Anthony_King_%26_Lamorne_Morris_%2851986298422%29.jpg/1280px-Anthony_King_%26_Lamorne_Morris_%2851986298422%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, Jake Kasdan, Katherine Pope (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-0e10375c3559.jpg) Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, Jake Kasdan, Katherine Pope (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Dave_Finkel%2C_Brett_Baer%2C_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris%2C_Hannah_Simone%2C_Jake_Kasdan%2C_Katherine_Pope.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-2987bf29073b.jpg) Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris%2C_Hannah_Simone.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris%2C_Hannah_Simone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lamorne Morris](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-5875f8cf6e15.jpg) Lamorne Morris — Image via TMDB
- ![Lamorne Morris](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-c44a862b4671.jpg) Lamorne Morris — Image via TMDB
- ![Lamorne Morris](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-c1a55dbf348e.jpg) Lamorne Morris — Image via TMDB
- ![Max impersonating Jake's dance moves during the music video rehearsal. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-0d4ec439bc4b.jpg) Max impersonating Jake's dance moves during the music video rehearsal. (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Max impersonating Jake's dance moves during the music video rehearsal. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-e189382b7644.jpg) Max impersonating Jake's dance moves during the music video rehearsal. (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lamorne Morris](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-e1ca68a0907c.jpg) Lamorne Morris — Image via TMDB
- ![Lamorne Morris](https://film.one/media/person/22058/gallery-78dc969207dc.jpg) Lamorne Morris — Image via TMDB

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