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.
Born: 18 January 1980
Played In
Over Your Dead Body
Dan
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Mooned
Vector (voice)
Shrinking
Jimmy
Windfall
Nobody
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Paul Westhead
The Sky Is Everywhere
Big
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Fezzik
One World: Together at Home
Self
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Peter
Our Friend
Dane Faucheux
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Self
Cultureshock
Self
Come Sunday
Henry
The Discovery
Will Harbor
Rush: R40 Live
Himself
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jeff Daniels
The End of the Tour
David Foster Wallace
Hot Ones
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Sex Tape
Jay
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
This Is the End
Jason Segel (uncredited)
This Is 40
Jason
The Five-Year Engagement
Tom Solomon
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff Thompkins
The Muppets
Gary
Friends with Benefits
Brice (uncredited)
Bad Teacher
Russell Gettis
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Sydney Fife
Gulliver's Travels
Horatio
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
Self
Conan
Self
Conan
Self - Guest
Despicable Me
Vector (voice)
I Love You, Man
Sydney Fife
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Peter Bretter
Knocked Up
Jason
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
The Megan Mullally Show
Self - Guest
Bye Bye Benjamin
Theodore Everest
How I Met Your Mother
Marshall Eriksen
The Good Humor Man
Smelly Bob
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
LolliLove
Jason
11:14
Leon
Certainly Not a Fairytale
Leo
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Slackers
Sam Schechter
Alias
Sam Hauser
Undeclared
Eric
North Hollywood
Gary Huffman
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Neil Jansen
Freaks and Geeks
Nick Andopolis
Family Guy
Marshall Eriksen (voice)
SLC Punk
Mike
Dead Man on Campus
Kyle
Can't Hardly Wait
Matt
The View
Self
The Daily Show
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Top Ten Presenter
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Entertainment Tonight
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Sponsor
Peter
Anxious People
How I Met The Robin
Marshall Eriksen