Born in Nicosia, Sicily, Foresta graduated in accounting and then moved to Milan, where he studied at the Maurizio Nichetti's acting school "Quelli di Grock".

[3] In the first half of the 1990s he was mainly active as a sidekick of Nino Frassica in a number of television shows.

[1] Forest had his breakout in the late 1990s, thanks to his participation in the Mediaset comedy show Zelig.

[1][2] He presented the 2006 edition of Festivalbar together with Cristina Chiabotto and Ilary Blasi.

[5] Forest also appeared in several films, and was the Italian voice of Doctor Neo Cortex in the Crash Bandicoot video games Crash of the Titans and Mind over Mutant.