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