
Cast
Jason Segel
Acting
Cast
Jason Segel
Known for
Acting
Born
1980-01-18
From
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as Jason Jordan Segel
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.

Over Your Dead Body
as Dan

Despicable Me
as Vector (voice)

Sex Tape
as Jay

This Is the End
as Jason Segel (uncredited)

Friends with Benefits
as Brice (uncredited)

Bad Teacher
as Russell Gettis

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Peter Bretter

Knocked Up
as Jason

The Muppets
as Gary

Gulliver's Travels
as Horatio

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)

This Is 40
as Jason

The Five-Year Engagement
as Tom Solomon

11:14
as Leon

Our Friend
as Dane Faucheux

The Discovery
as Will Harbor

Can't Hardly Wait
as Matt

I Love You, Man
as Sydney Fife

One World: Together at Home
as Self

Jeff, Who Lives at Home
as Jeff Thompkins

SLC Punk
as Mike

Windfall
as Nobody

Slackers
as Sam Schechter

The Sky Is Everywhere
as Big

The End of the Tour
as David Foster Wallace

Come Sunday
as Henry

Bye Bye Benjamin
as Theodore Everest

LolliLove
as Jason

Dead Man on Campus
as Kyle

Mooned
as Vector (voice)

Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
as Self

Anxious People

Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
as Sydney Fife

North Hollywood
as Gary Huffman

How I Met The Robin
as Marshall Eriksen

Certainly Not a Fairytale
as Leo

The Good Humor Man
as Smelly Bob

Sponsor
as Peter

Rush: R40 Live
as Himself
