Jason Segel
Acting
- Born:
- 1980-01-18
- Place of birth:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014. He began his career with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and Undeclared (2001–2002) before gaining prominence for his leading roles in various successful comedy films in which he has starred, written, and produced. Segel has starred in many comedic films such as Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Bad Teacher (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), and Sex Tape (2014), as well as family films such as Despicable Me (2010), and The Muppets (2011). For his role as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour (2015) he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also starred in the dramas Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Discovery (2017), Our Friend (2019), and Windfall (2022). In 2023, he began starring as a therapist in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which he also co-created alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. For his performance he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
Known For
Filmography
Over Your Dead Body
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Mooned
Shrinking
Windfall
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
The Sky Is Everywhere
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
One World: Together at Home
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Our Friend
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Cultureshock
Come Sunday
The Discovery
Rush: R40 Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The End of the Tour
Hot Ones
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Sex Tape
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
This Is the End
This Is 40
The Five-Year Engagement
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
The Muppets
Friends with Benefits
Bad Teacher
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Gulliver's Travels
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
Conan
Despicable Me
I Love You, Man
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Knocked Up
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
The Megan Mullally Show
Bye Bye Benjamin
How I Met Your Mother
The Good Humor Man
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
LolliLove
11:14
Certainly Not a Fairytale
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Slackers
Alias
Undeclared
North Hollywood
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Freaks and Geeks
Family Guy
New Jersey Turnpikes
SLC Punk
Dead Man on Campus
Can't Hardly Wait
The View
The Daily Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jeopardy!
Entertainment Tonight
Saturday Night Live
Golden Globe Awards
Sponsor
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