Nat Faxon
Nathaniel Wales Faxon is an American actor, comedian, director, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants (2011) and starred in the FOX comedy series Ben and Kate (2012–2013), the FX comedy series Married 2014–2015) and voices Elfo in the Netflix adult animated television series Disenchantment (2018-). He is an alumnus of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings, where he began performing in 2001. He's best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), Zookeeper (2011), Tammy (2014), Sex Tape (2014), Life of the Party (2018), Father of the Year (2018), and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest (2006). He also appeared in Charlie's Angels (2019). He co-starred in Darren Star's semi-autobiographical satire Grosse Pointe and had recurring roles in several television series such as The Cleveland Show, Joey, Up All Night and Reno 911!. He has been featured in a series of prominent Holiday Inn commercials featuring Joe Buck as well as an ad by Blockbuster. However, he did not get a significant lead role until 2012 when he starred as the titular Ben in Ben and Kate. He starred alongside Judy Greer in the FX comedy series Married (2014), which ran for two seasons. He's had major recurring roles as Jeremy de Longpre on the series Allen Gregory, Nick on Netflix's Friends from College, The Swede on Our Flag Means Death, Arthur on Loot, and Marshall on the series A League of Their Own. He's also had a recurring role as Neville, Jackie's love interest, on The Conners. He provides the voice for Captain Underpants and Mr. Krupp in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as well as the Captain Underpants specials. He also provides the voice for Chief on the series Housebroken. He co-wrote and co-directed The Way, Way Back (2013) and Downhill (2020) with writing partner Jim Rash.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Orion and the Dark as Insomnia (voice)
- 2024 · After Midnight as Self
- 2023 · Mulligan as Matty Mulligan (voice)
- 2023 · The Great American Baking Show as Self
- 2023 · Frog and Toad as Frog (voice)
- 2022 · The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday as Self - Contestant
- 2022 · The Moon and Back as Peter Gilbert
- 2022 · A League of Their Own as Marshall
- 2022 · Loot as Arthur
- 2022 · Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe as Jim Hartson (voice)
- 2022 · Gaslit as Bob Haldeman
- 2022 · Our Flag Means Death as The Swede
- 2021 · Marvel's Hit-Monkey as Boone
- 2021 · HouseBroken as Chief (voice)
- 2021 · YES DAY as Mr. Deacon
- 2021 · Bird & Squirrel as Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
- 2021 · The Great North as Calvin Prescott (voice)
- 2020 · Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2020 · The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space as Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
- 2020 · The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2020 · Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2019 · Charlie's Angels as Fleming
- 2019 · The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2019 · Ready or Not as Justin (voice)
- 2019 · Euphoria as Rick
- 2019 · Tacoma FD as Frenchie
- 2018 · The Conners as Neville
- 2018 · Disenchantment as Elfo (voice)
- 2018 · Father of the Year as Mardy
- 2018 · The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as Pharaoh (voice)
- 2018 · The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Popular Banana Split (voice)
- 2018 · Life of the Party as Lance
- 2017 · The Guest Book as Derek
- 2017 · Friends from College as Nick
- 2017 · A Happening of Monumental Proportions as Paramedic #2
- 2017 · Great News as Anthony Lyon
- 2016 · Operator as Gregg
- 2016 · Speechless as Undercover Boss
- 2015 · Life in Pieces as Hayes
- 2014 · Benched as Harold
- 2014 · Marry Me as Scooby
- 2014 · Blaze and the Monster Machines as Pickle
- 2014 · black-ish as Joseph Everton
- 2014 · Sex Tape as Max
- 2014 · Married as Russ Bowman
- 2014 · Tammy as Greg
- 2013 · The Way Way Back as Roddy
- 2012 · Freeloaders as Fritz
- 2012 · Ben and Kate as Ben Fox
- 2012 · The Babymakers as Zig-Zag
- 2012 · Comedy Bang! Bang! as Earl or Crathmore
- 2011 · Allen Gregory as Jeremy De Longpre
- 2011 · Up All Night as Lawrence
- 2011 · Zookeeper as Dave
- 2011 · Bad Teacher as Mark
- 2011 · Happy Endings as Chef Leslie
- 2009 · The Slammin' Salmon as Carl the Manager
- 2009 · Party Down as Garlan Greenbush
- 2008 · Lower Learning as Turner Abernathy
- 2008 · Hamlet 2 as Glenn from Copy Shop
- 2007 · Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as Awards Show Stage Manager
- 2007 · Mad Men as Flatty
- 2007 · The TV Set as Reporter
- 2006 · Happy Hour as
- 2006 · Beerfest as Rolf
- 2005 · My Name Is Earl as Kenny's Boyfriend
- 2005 · Romy and Michele: In the Beginning as Chad
- 2005 · American Dad! as (voice)
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Joey as Bodie
- 2004 · Club Dread as Manny
- 2003 · NCIS as Carter Finch
- 2003 · Reno 911! as Milk Shake
- 2003 · Reno 911! as Head Shop Clerk
- 2002 · Slackers as Karl, the Grad Student
- 2002 · Orange County as Kip
- 2000 · Grosse Pointe as
- 2000 · Grosse Pointe as Kevin
- 1999 · Family Guy as Coach Herrera (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Water Park Employee (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)