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.
Filmography (72)
Over Your Dead Body
2026
Mooned
2023
Shrinking
2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
Windfall
2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
One World: Together at Home
2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020
Our Friend
2019
Come Sunday
2018
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018
Cultureshock
2018
The Discovery
2017
The End of the Tour
2015
Rush: R40 Live
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Hot Ones
2015
Sex Tape
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
This Is the End
2013
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012
The Five-Year Engagement
2012
This Is 40
2012
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
2012
Bad Teacher
2011
The Muppets
2011
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
2011
Friends with Benefits
2011
Despicable Me
2010
Gulliver's Travels
2010
Conan
2010
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
2010
I Love You, Man
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008
Knocked Up
2007
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
The Good Humor Man
2005
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
11:14
2004
LolliLove
2004
Certainly Not a Fairytale
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Slackers
2002
North Hollywood
2001
Alias
2001
Undeclared
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Freaks and Geeks
1999
Family Guy
1999
SLC Punk
1998
Dead Man on Campus
1998
Can't Hardly Wait
1998
The View
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
Golden Globe Awards
1944
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