Will Forte Wife Story Tracks 50-Year-Old Father in Albuquerque
Will Forte wife Olivia Modling married him in a last-minute backyard ceremony in Albuquerque after the couple had already welcomed their first daughter, Zoe, in February 2021. Forte later described himself as a 50-year-old father, a timing shift that turned a planned 2020 wedding into a far smaller family event.
Forte said in April 2021, "I’m a 50-year-old father. Which is pretty old for a father. So my fiancée, Olivia, had this made for me," before the couple’s wedding story became clearer later that year. By then, the basic shape of the timeline was set: dating in 2018, engagement in 2019, a postponed 2020 wedding, and a marriage five months after Zoe’s birth.
Albuquerque Backyard Wedding
The wedding came together when his and Modling’s families were already visiting while he was filming in New Mexico. Forte said, "We realized, ‘Oh, all the people that we would want to be here are going to be here.’"
That led to a decision made at the last minute. "They were already in Albuquerque, so we just decided very last minute, ‘Let’s just have this wedding, surprise my parents,’" he said. "They didn’t even know until they pulled into the parking lot." The ceremony took place in the back of Jorma Taccone’s house, with most of Forte’s closest friends already in town because they worked on MacGruber with him.
Zoe Arrived in February 2021
Zoe’s February 2021 arrival came before the wedding and after the couple’s plans had shifted amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That sequence gave the marriage a different shape from the one originally mapped out for 2020, with the family event overtaking the formal schedule.
Forte later said, "I needed to find somebody who was a very patient person and she’s the most patient, understanding woman in the world," and added, "I’m feeling very happy and very lucky these days." Those comments fit a relationship that moved from engagement to parenthood before the wedding itself.
Two Daughters by 2024
By 2021, Forte and Modling had also expanded their family with daughter Cecilia, and by 2024 he said, "I have two young daughters, one who’s about 3 and one who’s about a year and a half, so we are dancing all the time," followed by, "I’m so bad at it, but when they get up, it makes me instantly want to dance." The public picture is plain: a late-start fatherhood story, a quick wedding pivot, and a family that grew again after the couple said yes in Albuquerque.
Forte returned to Modling’s off-camera life in June 2026, when he joked about her bangs during a television appearance: "I FaceTime her, she picks up the FaceTime and she has freshly cut bangs," then, "What happened to you?" and "Is that a wig?!"
For readers following the will forte wife question, the practical answer is simple: Modling is his wife, the couple married five months after Zoe was born, and they now have two daughters. The backstory is less about Hollywood scale than timing, and in this case the timing was rewritten by the pandemic and a backyard in Albuquerque.
