Nat Faxon

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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.

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2026
Super Troopers 3
Movie Captain Markowski
2026
President Curtis
TV show Michael in Accounting (voice)
2026
Miss You, Love You
Movie Producer
2026
Greetings From Samson
Movie Jozeph / Tony / Rando (voice)
2026
Mermaid
Movie Bill
2026
Cartoon Cartoons
TV show Bird / Racoon / Frog (voice)
2025
BULLDOZER
TV show Steve
2025
Watson
TV show Hobie McSorley
2025
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Movie Pickle
2024
The Trainer
Movie Nat Faxon
2024
Orion and the Dark
Movie Insomnia (voice)
2024
After Midnight
TV show Self
2023
Mulligan
TV show Matty Mulligan (voice)
2023
Frog and Toad
TV show Frog (voice)
2022
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
Movie Self - Contestant
2022
The Moon and Back
Movie Peter Gilbert

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2022
A League of Their Own
TV show Marshall
2022
Loot
TV show Arthur
2022
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Movie Jim Hartson (voice)
2022
Gaslit
TV show Bob Haldeman
2022
Our Flag Means Death
TV show The Swede
2021
Marvel's Hit-Monkey
TV show Boone
2021
Ghosts
TV show Alexander Hamilton
2021
HouseBroken
TV show Chief (voice)
2021
YES DAY
Movie Mr. Deacon
2021
Bird & Squirrel
Movie Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
2021
The Great North
TV show Calvin Prescott (voice)
2020
Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas
Movie Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2020
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
TV show Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2020
Solar Opposites
TV show Bryson (voice)
2020
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Movie Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
2020
Downhill
Movie Director
2019
Charlie's Angels
Movie Peter Fleming
2019
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
Movie Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2019
Ready or Not
Movie Justin (voice)
2019
Euphoria
TV show Rick
2019
Tacoma FD
TV show Frenchie
2019
Love, Death & Robots
TV show Waffle Maker (voice)
2018
The Conners
TV show Neville
2018
Disenchantment
TV show Elfo (voice)