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‘Fargo’ Actor Lamorne Morris on His Character’s Fate, Being a Bank Pitchman and That Time He Performed for Prince on ‘New Girl’ Set


Awards Circuit Podcast: "Fargo" and "New Girl" actor Lamorne Morris talks his character's fate. playing Garrett Morris in "SNL 1975" and more.

He tells Variety ‘s Awards Circuit Podcast that whenever his daughter gets in trouble at school, they send her home a bit early and she gets to join her dad at work. The Chicago-born actor and comedian plays the North Dakota state trooper Witt Farr in the fifth season of the FX anthology series “ Fargo,” and may still be best known for his role as Winston Bishop on the Fox sitcom “New Girl” from 2011 until 2018. Morris explains that he initially had some issues with playing out his character’s death at the end of season 5 of “Fargo,” where he gets the boot after Jon Hamm’s Roy Tillman stabs him.

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