Jason Segel

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

68

Gender

Male

Birthday

1980-01-18 (45 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Jason 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.

Known For

  • Family Guy

    Family Guy

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • How I Met Your Mother

    How I Met Your Mother

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • Conan

    Conan

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • The View

    The View

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

  • Despicable Me

    Despicable Me

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  • Shrinking

    Shrinking

  • Sex Tape

    Sex Tape

  • Our Friend

    Our Friend

  • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

    Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

  • Knocked Up

    Knocked Up

  • Bad Teacher

    Bad Teacher

  • Freaks and Geeks

    Freaks and Geeks

  • Friends with Benefits

    Friends with Benefits

  • This Is the End

    This Is the End

  • MTV Movie & TV Awards

    MTV Movie & TV Awards

  • Mooned

    Mooned

  • The Megan Mullally Show

    The Megan Mullally Show

  • Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

    Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

  • The Muppets

    The Muppets

  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    Forgetting Sarah Marshall

  • Windfall

    Windfall

  • This Is 40

    This Is 40

  • Dispatches from Elsewhere

    Dispatches from Elsewhere

  • SLC Punk

    SLC Punk

  • Home Movie: The Princess Bride

    Home Movie: The Princess Bride

  • Entertainment Tonight

    Entertainment Tonight

  • Slackers

    Slackers

  • LolliLove

    LolliLove

  • North Hollywood

    North Hollywood

  • Come Sunday

    Come Sunday

  • Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

  • Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

    Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

  • Undeclared

    Undeclared

  • Alias

    Alias

  • I Love You, Man

    I Love You, Man

  • Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

    Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

  • The Discovery

    The Discovery

  • The Sky Is Everywhere

    The Sky Is Everywhere

  • 11:14

    11:14

  • Can't Hardly Wait

    Can't Hardly Wait

  • The Five-Year Engagement

    The Five-Year Engagement

  • The End of the Tour

    The End of the Tour

  • One World: Together at Home

    One World: Together at Home

  • Over Your Dead Body

    Over Your Dead Body

  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home

    Jeff, Who Lives at Home

  • Dead Man on Campus

    Dead Man on Campus

  • The Good Humor Man

    The Good Humor Man

  • Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary

    Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary

  • Certainly Not a Fairytale

    Certainly Not a Fairytale

  • Bye Bye Benjamin

    Bye Bye Benjamin

  • Sponsor

    Sponsor

  • Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush

    Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush

  • Anxious People

    Anxious People

  • Rush: R40 Live

    Rush: R40 Live

  • Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets

    Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets