Jason Segel
- Acting
- January 18, 1980 · 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
- Anxious People
- Over Your Dead Body · Dan
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Mooned · Vector (Voice)
- Shrinking · Jimmy, Executive producer
- Windfall · Nobody, Story
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · Paul Westhead
- The Sky Is Everywhere · Big
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride · Fezzik
- One World: Together at Home · Self
- Dispatches from Elsewhere · Peter, Executive producer
- Our Friend · Dane Faucheux
- Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary · Self
- Cultureshock · Self
- Come Sunday · Henry
- The Discovery · Will Harbor
- Rush: R40 Live · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self, Jeff Daniels
- The End of the Tour · David Foster Wallace
- Hot Ones · Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- Sex Tape · Jay, Screenplay
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- This Is the End · Jason Segel (uncredited)
- This Is 40 · Jason
- The Five-Year Engagement · Tom Solomon, Screenplay
- Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
- Jeff, Who Lives at Home · Jeff Thompkins
- The Muppets · Gary, Writer
- Friends with Benefits · Brice (uncredited)
- Bad Teacher · Russell Gettis
- Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush · Sydney Fife, Director
- Gulliver's Travels · Horatio
- Take Two with Phineas and Ferb · Self
- Conan · Self
- Despicable Me · Vector (Voice)
- Get Him to the Greek · Characters, Co-producer
- I Love You, Man · Sydney Fife
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall · Peter Bretter, Screenplay
- Knocked Up · Jason
- Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny · Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
- The Megan Mullally Show · Self
- Bye Bye Benjamin · Theodore Everest
- How I Met Your Mother · Marshall Eriksen
- The Good Humor Man · Smelly Bob
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson · Self
- LolliLove · Jason
- 11:14 · Leon
- Certainly Not a Fairytale · Leo
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Slackers · Sam Schechter
- Alias · Sam Hauser
- Undeclared · Eric
- North Hollywood · Gary Huffman
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation · Neil Jansen
- Freaks and Geeks · Nick Andopolis
- Family Guy · Marshall Eriksen (Voice)
- New Jersey Turnpikes
- SLC Punk · Mike
- Dead Man on Campus · Kyle
- Can't Hardly Wait · Watermelon Guy
- The View · Self
- The Daily Show · Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien · Self
- Late Show with David Letterman · Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Jeopardy! · Self
- Entertainment Tonight · Self
- Saturday Night Live · Self
- Golden Globe Awards · Self
- Sponsor · Peter, Writer