Jason Segel
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
- 2023 · Mooned as Vector (voice)
- 2023 · Shrinking as Jimmy
- 2022 · Windfall as Nobody
- 2022 · Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Paul Westhead
- 2022 · Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Self
- 2022 · The Sky Is Everywhere as Big
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Fezzik
- 2020 · One World: Together at Home as Self
- 2020 · Dispatches from Elsewhere as Peter
- 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 Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · The End of the Tour as David Foster Wallace
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Sex Tape as Jay
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2013 · This Is the End as Jason Segel (uncredited)
- 2012 · This Is 40 as Jason
- 2012 · The Five-Year Engagement as Tom Solomon
- 2012 · Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets as
- 2012 · Jeff, Who Lives at Home as Jeff Thompkins
- 2011 · The Muppets as Gary
- 2011 · Friends with Benefits as Brice (uncredited)
- 2011 · Bad Teacher as Russell Gettis
- 2011 · Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush as Sydney Fife
- 2010 · Gulliver's Travels as Horatio
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Despicable Me as Vector (voice)
- 2009 · I Love You, Man as Sydney Fife
- 2009 · Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2008 · Forgetting Sarah Marshall as Peter Bretter
- 2007 · Knocked Up as Jason
- 2006 · Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
- 2006 · The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Bye Bye Benjamin as Theodore Everest
- 2005 · How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen
- 2005 · The Good Humor Man as Smelly Bob
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · LolliLove as Jason Segel
- 2003 · Certainly Not a Fairytale as Leo
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · 11:14 as Leon
- 2002 · Slackers as Sam Schechter
- 2001 · Alias as Sam Hauser
- 2001 · Undeclared as Eric
- 2001 · North Hollywood as Gary Huffman
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Neil Jansen
- 1999 · Freaks and Geeks as Nick Andopolis
- 1999 · Family Guy as Marshall Eriksen (voice)
- 1998 · SLC Punk as Mike
- 1998 · Dead Man on Campus as Kyle
- 1998 · Can't Hardly Wait as Matt
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Prostitute
- Future · The Trip as
- Future · Pogvengers: Late Game as Vector