
Jason Segel
5 FOLLOWERS • 53 CREDITS • JAN 18, 1980 • 45
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

Saturday Night Live

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Family Guy

Entertainment Tonight

Alias

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Friends with Benefits

This Is the End

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Can't Hardly Wait

Despicable Me 4

Dead Man on Campus

This Is 40

Freaks and Geeks

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Come Sunday

Knocked Up

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Our Friend

How I Met Your Mother

The Good Humor Man

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Shrinking

I Love You, Man

Bad Teacher

Despicable Me

Gulliver's Travels

Sex Tape

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

The Discovery

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Dispatches from Elsewhere

Windfall

The Five-Year Engagement

The Muppets
Production Credits
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