Nat Faxon
- Acting
- October 11, 1975 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Nathaniel Wales Faxon is an American actor, comedian, director, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants (2011) and starred in the FOX comedy series Ben and Kate (2012–2013), the FX comedy series Married 2014–2015) and voices Elfo in the Netflix adult animated television series Disenchantment (2018-). He is an alumnus of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings, where he began performing in 2001. He's best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), Zookeeper (2011), Tammy (2014), Sex Tape (2014), Life of the Party (2018), Father of the Year (2018), and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest (2006). He also appeared in Charlie's Angels (2019). He co-starred in Darren Star's semi-autobiographical satire Grosse Pointe and had recurring roles in several television series such as The Cleveland Show, Joey, Up All Night and Reno 911!. He has been featured in a series of prominent Holiday Inn commercials featuring Joe Buck as well as an ad by Blockbuster. However, he did not get a significant lead role until 2012 when he starred as the titular Ben in Ben and Kate. He starred alongside Judy Greer in the FX comedy series Married (2014), which ran for two seasons. He's had major recurring roles as Jeremy de Longpre on the series Allen Gregory, Nick on Netflix's Friends from College, The Swede on Our Flag Means Death, Arthur on Loot, and Marshall on the series A League of Their Own. He's also had a recurring role as Neville, Jackie's love interest, on The Conners. He provides the voice for Captain Underpants and Mr. Krupp in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as well as the Captain Underpants specials. He also provides the voice for Chief on the series Housebroken. He co-wrote and co-directed The Way, Way Back (2013) and Downhill (2020) with writing partner Jim Rash.
Known for
Filmography
- Super Troopers 3 · Captain Markowski
- President Curtis · Michael in Accounting (Voice)
- Miss You, Love You · Producer
- Greetings From Samson · Jozeph / Tony / Rando (Voice)
- Mermaid · Bill
- Cartoon Cartoons · Bird / Racoon / Frog (Voice), Jozeph / Tony / Rando (Voice)
- BULLDOZER · Steve
- Watson · Hobie McSorley
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels · Pickle, Joe
- The Trainer · Nat Faxon
- Orion and the Dark · Insomnia (Voice)
- After Midnight · Self
- Mulligan · Matty Mulligan (Voice)
- Frog and Toad · Frog (Voice)
- The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday · Self
- The Moon and Back · Peter Gilbert
- A League of Their Own · Marshall
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · Jim Hartson (Voice)
- Loot · Arthur
- Gaslit · Bob Haldeman
- Our Flag Means Death · The Swede
- Marvel's Hit-Monkey · Boone
- Ghosts · Alexander Hamilton
- HouseBroken · Chief (Voice)
- YES DAY · Mr. Deacon
- Bird & Squirrel · Bird / Raccoon / Frog (Voice)
- The Great North · Calvin Prescott (Voice)
- Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas · Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (Voice)
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space · Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (Voice), Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (Voice)
- Solar Opposites · Bryson (Voice)
- Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama · Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (Voice)
- Downhill · Director, Screenplay
- Charlie's Angels · Peter Fleming
- The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween · Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (Voice)
- Ready or Not · Justin (Voice)
- Euphoria · Rick
- Tacoma FD · Frenchie
- Love, Death & Robots · Waffle Maker (Voice)
- The Conners · Neville
- Disenchantment · Elfo (Voice)
- Father of the Year · Mardy
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants · Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (Voice)
- Summer Camp Island · Popular Banana Split (Voice)
- Life of the Party · Lance
- Thoroughbreds · Producer
- The Guest Book · Derek
- Friends from College · Nick
- A Happening of Monumental Proportions · Paramedic #2
- Great News · Anthony Lyon
- Operator · Gregg
- Speechless · Undercover Boss
- The Grinder · Lyle Gerhart
- Life in Pieces · Hayes
- Benched · Harold
- Mike Tyson Mysteries · Will (Voice), Nat O'Sullivan (Voice)
- Marry Me · Scooby
- Blaze and the Monster Machines · Pickle
- black-ish · Joseph Everton
- Sex Tape · Max
- Married · Russ Bowman
- Tammy · Greg
- The Way Way Back · Roddy, Writer
- Freeloaders · Fritz
- Ben and Kate · Ben Fox
- The Babymakers · Zig-Zag
- Comedy Bang! Bang! · Earl or Crathmore
- Are You There, Chelsea? · Tim Kornick
- Allen Gregory · Jeremy De Longpre
- Up All Night · Lawrence
- The Descendants · Screenplay
- Zookeeper · Dave
- Bad Teacher · Mark
- Happy Endings · Chef Leslie
- The Slammin' Salmon · Carl the Manager
- The Cleveland Show · Apologetic Janitor (Voice)
- Community · Director
- Party Down · Garlan Greenbush
- Lower Learning · Turner Abernathy
- Hamlet 2 · Glenn from Copy Shop
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · Awards Show Stage Manager