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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
1980-01-18
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Slackers
2002
5.20
Despicable Me
2010
7.25
Knocked Up
2007
6.30
SLC Punk
1998
7.10
11:14
2003
6.80
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008
6.50
Dead Man on Campus
1998
5.40
The Good Humor Man
2005
4.40
Gulliver's Travels
2010
5.20
I Love You, Man
2009
6.57
Bad Teacher
2011
5.60
LolliLove
2004
5.63
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012
6.22
The Five-Year Engagement
2012
5.86
This Is 40
2012
5.89
Sex Tape
2014
5.41
The End of the Tour
2015
7.02
Mooned
2023
6.50
The Muppets
2011
6.68
North Hollywood
2001
1.00
This Is the End
2013
6.23
The Discovery
2017
6.30
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
0.00
Can't Hardly Wait
1998
6.24
Come Sunday
2018
5.80
Our Friend
2019
7.18
Friends with Benefits
2011
6.66
Rush: R40 Live
2015
8.10
Certainly Not a Fairytale
2003
0.00
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
5.70
One World: Together at Home
2020
7.03
Windfall
2022
5.45
Sponsor
0.00
Despicable Me 4
2024
7.04