Jason Segel
ActingJason 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.
Known For
Despicable Me
Vector (voice)
Sex Tape
Jay
Friends with Benefits
Brice (uncredited)
This Is the End
Jason Segel (uncredited)
Bad Teacher
Russell Gettis
Knocked Up
Jason
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Peter Bretter
This Is 40
Jason
The Muppets
Gary
Filmography — Acting
Despicable Me
Vector (voice)
Sex Tape
Jay
Friends with Benefits
Brice (uncredited)
This Is the End
Jason Segel (uncredited)
Bad Teacher
Russell Gettis
Knocked Up
Jason
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Peter Bretter
This Is 40
Jason
The Muppets
Gary
I Love You, Man
Sydney Fife
Gulliver's Travels
Horatio
11:14
Leon
Over Your Dead Body
Dan
The Discovery
Will Harbor
Can't Hardly Wait
Matt
The Five-Year Engagement
Tom Solomon
SLC Punk
Mike
The End of the Tour
David Foster Wallace
Our Friend
Dane Faucheux
Come Sunday
Henry
Slackers
Sam Schechter
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff Thompkins
One World: Together at Home
Self
Windfall
Nobody
Dead Man on Campus
Kyle
The Sky Is Everywhere
Big
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Self
LolliLove
Jason
Certainly Not a Fairytale
Leo
Mooned
Vector (voice)
The Good Humor Man
Smelly Bob
Bye Bye Benjamin
Theodore Everest
Anxious People
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Sydney Fife
Sponsor
Peter
Rush: R40 Live
Himself
North Hollywood
Gary Huffman