
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.
Filmography
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Anxious People
2026

Over Your Dead Body
2026
as Dan

Mooned
2023
as Vector (voice)

Windfall
2022
as Nobody

The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
as Big

One World: Together at Home
2020
as Self

Our Friend
2019
as Dane Faucheux

Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018
as Self

Come Sunday
2018
as Henry

The Discovery
2017
as Will Harbor

Rush: R40 Live
2015
as Himself

The End of the Tour
2015
as David Foster Wallace

Sex Tape
2014
as Jay

This Is the End
2013
as Jason Segel (uncredited)

This Is 40
2012
as Jason

The Five-Year Engagement
2012
as Tom Solomon
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Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
2012

Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012
as Jeff Thompkins

The Muppets
2011
as Gary

Friends with Benefits
2011
as Brice (uncredited)

Bad Teacher
2011
as Russell Gettis

Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
2011
as Sydney Fife

Gulliver's Travels
2010
as Horatio

Despicable Me
2010
as Vector (voice)