Jason Segel
Acting
1980-01-18 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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
Anxious People
2026 · Movie
Over Your Dead Body
2026 · Movie
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023 · Series
Mooned
2023 · Movie
Shrinking
2023 · Series
Windfall
2022 · Movie
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022 · Series
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022 · Movie
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020 · Series
One World: Together at Home
2020 · Movie
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020 · Series
Our Friend
2019 · Movie
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018 · Movie
Cultureshock
2018 · Series
Come Sunday
2018 · Movie
The Discovery
2017 · Movie
Rush: R40 Live
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
The End of the Tour
2015 · Movie
Hot Ones
2015 · Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
Sex Tape
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
This Is the End
2013 · Movie
This Is 40
2012 · Movie
The Five-Year Engagement
2012 · Movie
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
2012 · Movie
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012 · Movie
The Muppets
2011 · Movie
Friends with Benefits
2011 · Movie
Bad Teacher
2011 · Movie
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
2011 · Movie
Gulliver's Travels
2010 · Movie
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
2010 · Series
Conan
2010 · Series
Despicable Me
2010 · Movie
Get Him to the Greek
2010 · Movie
I Love You, Man
2009 · Movie
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Series
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008 · Movie
Knocked Up
2007 · Movie
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006 · Movie
The Megan Mullally Show
2006 · Series
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006 · Movie
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · Series
The Good Humor Man
2005 · Movie
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Series
LolliLove
2004 · Movie
11:14
2004 · Movie
Certainly Not a Fairytale
2003 · Movie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Slackers
2002 · Movie
Alias
2001 · Series
Undeclared
2001 · Series
North Hollywood
2001 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
Freaks and Geeks
1999 · Series
Family Guy
1999 · Series
SLC Punk
1998 · Movie
Dead Man on Campus
1998 · Movie
Can't Hardly Wait
1998 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Jeopardy!
1984 · Series
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
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