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