Jason Segel
Born January 18, 1980 (Age: 46)
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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.
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.
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Filmography
One World: Together at Home
2020
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as Self
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Age: 40
Come Sunday
2018
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as Henry
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Age: 38
The End of the Tour
2015
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as David Foster Wallace
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Age: 35
Sex Tape
2014
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as Jay
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Age: 34
This Is the End
2013
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as Jason Segel (uncredited)
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Age: 33
This Is 40
2012
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as Jason
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Age: 32
The Five-Year Engagement
2012
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as Tom Solomon
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Age: 32
No Image
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
2012
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as
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Age: 32
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012
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as Jeff Thompkins
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Age: 32
The Muppets
2011
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as Gary
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Age: 31
Friends with Benefits
2011
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as Brice (uncredited)
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Age: 31
Bad Teacher
2011
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as Russell Gettis
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Age: 31
Gulliver's Travels
2010
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as Horatio
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Age: 30
Despicable Me
2010
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as Vector (voice)
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Age: 30
I Love You, Man
2009
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as Sydney Fife
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Age: 29
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008
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as Peter Bretter
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Age: 28
Knocked Up
2007
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as Jason
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Age: 27
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006
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as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
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Age: 26
Slackers
2002
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as Sam Schechter
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Age: 22
SLC Punk
1998
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as Mike
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Age: 18
Dead Man on Campus
1998
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as Kyle
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Age: 18
Can't Hardly Wait
1998
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as Matt
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Age: 18