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Jason Segel

Acting
Known For

45 Years Old

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.

Born

Los Angeles, California, USA on 18th January 1980

All Credits

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