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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 Desp…
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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 Segel's Filmography
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No Poster
Anxious People
Over Your Dead Body
as Dan
Mooned
as Vector (voice)
Windfall
as Nobody
The Sky Is Everywhere
as Big
One World: Together at Home
as Self
Our Friend
as Dane Faucheux
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
as Self
Come Sunday
as Henry
The Discovery
as Will Harbor
Rush: R40 Live
as Himself
The End of the Tour
as David Foster Wallace
Sex Tape
as Jay
This Is the End
as Jason Segel (uncredited)
This Is 40
as Jason
The Five-Year Engagement
as Tom Solomon
No Poster
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
as Jeff Thompkins
The Muppets
as Gary
Friends with Benefits
as Brice (uncredited)
Bad Teacher
as Russell Gettis
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
as Sydney Fife
Gulliver's Travels
as Horatio
Despicable Me
as Vector (voice)
I Love You, Man
as Sydney Fife
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Peter Bretter
Knocked Up
as Jason
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
Bye Bye Benjamin
as Theodore Everest
The Good Humor Man
as Smelly Bob
LolliLove
as Jason
11:14
as Leon
No Poster
Certainly Not a Fairytale
as Leo
Slackers
as Sam Schechter
North Hollywood
as Gary Huffman
New Jersey Turnpikes
SLC Punk
as Mike
Dead Man on Campus
as Kyle
Can't Hardly Wait
as Watermelon Guy
No Poster
Sponsor
as Peter