Jason Segel
Biography
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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Full filmography
- Family Guy (1999) as Marshall Eriksen (voice)
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Neil Jansen
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Jeff Daniels
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
- How I Met Your Mother (2005) as Marshall Eriksen
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
- Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Top Ten Presenter
- Over Your Dead Body (2026) as Dan
- Conan (2010) as Self
- Conan (2010) as Self - Guest
- The View (1997) as Self
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) as Self
- Hot Ones (2015) as Self
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Shrinking (2023) as Jimmy
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)