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Jason Segel
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 be…
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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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2026
Anxious People
Movie
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2026
Over Your Dead Body
Movie Dan
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2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2023
Mooned
Movie Vector (voice)
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2023
Shrinking
TV show Jimmy
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2022
Windfall
Movie Nobody
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2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
TV show Paul Westhead
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2022
The Sky Is Everywhere
Movie Big
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2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV show Fezzik
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2020
One World: Together at Home
Movie Self
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2020
Dispatches from Elsewhere
TV show Peter
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2019
Our Friend
Movie Dane Faucheux
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2018
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Movie Self
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2018
Cultureshock
TV show Self
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2018
Come Sunday
Movie Henry
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2017
The Discovery
Movie Will Harbor
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2015
Rush: R40 Live
Movie Himself
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
The End of the Tour
Movie David Foster Wallace
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2015
Hot Ones
TV show Self
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Sex Tape
Movie Jay
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
This Is the End
Movie Jason Segel (uncredited)
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2012
This Is 40
Movie Jason
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2012
The Five-Year Engagement
Movie Tom Solomon
- 2012
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2012
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Movie Jeff Thompkins
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2011
The Muppets
Movie Gary
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2011
Friends with Benefits
Movie Brice (uncredited)
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2011
Bad Teacher
Movie Russell Gettis
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2011
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Movie Sydney Fife
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2010
Gulliver's Travels
Movie Horatio
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2010
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
TV show Self
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
Despicable Me
Movie Vector (voice)
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2010
Get Him to the Greek
Movie Characters
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2009
I Love You, Man
Movie Sydney Fife
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2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
