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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.
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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
Saturday Night Live
Golden Globe Awards
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Family Guy
Entertainment Tonight
Alias
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Friends with Benefits
This Is the End
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Can't Hardly Wait
Despicable Me 4
Dead Man on Campus
This Is 40
Freaks and Geeks
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Knocked Up
Come Sunday
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Our Friend
How I Met Your Mother
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Good Humor Man
Shrinking
I Love You, Man
Bad Teacher
Gulliver's Travels
Despicable Me
Sex Tape
Windfall
The Discovery
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Dispatches from Elsewhere
The Five-Year Engagement
The Muppets
Production Credits
Windfall
Sex Tape
The Muppets
The Five-Year Engagement
Shrinking
Get Him to the Greek
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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