Jason Segel 1980 45
Jason Segel 1980 45
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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2025 Over Your Dead Body
2023 Mooned as Vector (voice)
2022 Windfall as Nobody Story, Producer
2022 The Sky Is Everywhere as Big
2020 One World: Together at Home as Self
2019 Our Friend as Dane Faucheux
2018 Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary as Self
2018 Come Sunday as Henry
2017 The Discovery as Will Harbor
2015 Rush: R40 Live as Himself
2015 The End of the Tour as David Foster Wallace
2014 Sex Tape as Jay Screenplay, Executive Producer
2013 This Is the End as Jason Segel (uncredited)
2012 This Is 40 as Jason
2012 The Five-Year Engagement as Tom Solomon Screenplay
2012 Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
2012 Jeff, Who Lives at Home as Jeff Thompkins
2011 The Muppets as Gary Writer, Executive Producer
2011 Friends with Benefits as Brice (uncredited)
2011 Bad Teacher as Russell Gettis
2011 Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush as Sydney Fife Director
2010 Gulliver's Travels as Horatio
2010 Despicable Me as Vector (voice)
2010 Get Him to the Greek Co-Producer, Characters
2009 I Love You, Man as Sydney Fife
2008 Forgetting Sarah Marshall as Peter Bretter Screenplay
2007 Knocked Up as Jason
2006 Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
2006 Bye Bye Benjamin as Theodore Everest
2005 How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen
2005 The Good Humor Man as Smelly Bob
2004 LolliLove as Jason Segel
2003 Certainly Not a Fairytale as Leo
2003 11:14 as Leon
2002 Slackers as Sam Schechter
2001 North Hollywood as Gary Huffman
1998 SLC Punk as Mike
1998 Dead Man on Campus as Kyle
1998 Can't Hardly Wait as Matt