Jason Segel

Acting · Born 1980-01-18 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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…

Filmography

• Despicable Me as Vector (voice)
• SLC Punk as Mike
• This Is 40 as Jason
• The End of the Tour as David Foster Wallace
• Our Friend as Dane Faucheux
• Slackers as Sam Schechter
• Knocked Up as Jason
• 11:14 as Leon
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall as Peter Bretter
• Dead Man on Campus as Kyle

TV

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Neil Jansen
• How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen
• Freaks and Geeks as Nick Andopolis
• Shrinking as Jimmy
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Paul Westhead
• The Daily Show as Self
• Alias as Sam Hauser
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Undeclared as Eric
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest