Jason Segel
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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
Credits
Over Your Dead Body (2026)
as Dan
Despicable Me (2010)
as Vector (voice)
Sex Tape (2014)
as Jay
Friends with Benefits (2011)
as Brice (uncredited)
This Is the End (2013)
as Jason Segel (uncredited)
Bad Teacher (2011)
as Russell Gettis
The Muppets (2011)
as Gary
This Is 40 (2012)
as Jason
Knocked Up (2007)
as Jason
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
as Peter Bretter
Gulliver's Travels (2010)
as Horatio
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
I Love You, Man (2009)
as Sydney Fife
11:14 (2004)
as Leon
SLC Punk (1998)
as Mike
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
as Matt
Slackers (2002)
as Sam Schechter
The Discovery (2017)
as Will Harbor
The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
as Tom Solomon
Our Friend (2019)
as Dane Faucheux
One World: Together at Home (2020)
as Self
Windfall (2022)
as Nobody
Come Sunday (2018)
as Henry
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)
as Jeff Thompkins
The End of the Tour (2015)
as David Foster Wallace
Dead Man on Campus (1998)
as Kyle
The Sky Is Everywhere (2022)
as Big
Mooned (2023)
as Vector (voice)
Bye Bye Benjamin (2006)
as Theodore Everest
Rush: R40 Live (2015)
as Himself
LolliLove (2004)
as Jason
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary (2018)
as Self
Anxious People (—)
Actor
The Good Humor Man (2005)
as Smelly Bob
Sponsor (—)
as Peter
How I Met The Robin (—)
as Marshall Eriksen
North Hollywood (2001)
as Gary Huffman
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush (2011)
as Sydney Fife
Certainly Not a Fairytale (2003)
as Leo
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets (2012)
Actor