Jason Segel
Known for: Acting
Born: January 18, 1980
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
40 movies · 33 TV shows, newest first
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Anxious People
2026
6.4
Over Your Dead Body
2026
2.9
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
6.4
Mooned
2023
7.8
Shrinking
2023
5.5
Windfall
2022
7.7
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
5.7
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
7.7
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
7.1
One World: Together at Home
2020
6.7
Dispatches from Elsewhere
2020
7.2
Our Friend
2019
6.8
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018
4.0
Cultureshock
2018
5.8
Come Sunday
2018
6.3
The Discovery
2017
8.1
Rush: R40 Live
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
7.0
The End of the Tour
2015
7.1
Hot Ones
2015
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
5.4
Sex Tape
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
6.2
This Is the End
2013
5.9
This Is 40
2012
5.8
The Five-Year Engagement
201210.0
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
2012
6.2
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012
6.7
The Muppets
2011
6.6
Friends with Benefits
2011
5.6
Bad Teacher
2011
6.2
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
2011
5.2
Gulliver's Travels
2010
7.5
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
2010
7.2
Conan
2010
7.3
Despicable Me
2010
6.0
Get Him to the Greek
2010
6.6
I Love You, Man
2009
5.9
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
6.5
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008
6.3
Knocked Up
2007
6.8
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006
4.7
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
2.0
Bye Bye Benjamin
2006
8.1
How I Met Your Mother
2005
4.4
The Good Humor Man
2005
6.8
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
5.9
LolliLove
2004
6.8
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Certainly Not a Fairytale
2003
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
5.2
Slackers
2002
6.8
Alias
2001
7.3
Undeclared
2001
1.0
North Hollywood
2001
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
8.2
Freaks and Geeks
1999
7.4
Family Guy
1999
7.1
SLC Punk
1998
5.5
Dead Man on Campus
1998
6.3
Can't Hardly Wait
1998
4.3
The View
1997
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
6.9
Jeopardy!
1984
4.3
Entertainment Tonight
1981
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
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