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