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Jason Segel
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Segel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Segel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Family Guy
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
SNL Digital Shorts
Alias
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
This Is the End
Friends with Benefits
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Can't Hardly Wait
This Is 40
Dead Man on Campus
Despicable Me 4
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Freaks and Geeks
Knocked Up
Come Sunday
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
How I Met Your Mother
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Our Friend
The Good Humor Man
Sex Tape
Gulliver's Travels
Despicable Me
I Love You, Man
Shrinking
Bad Teacher
Dispatches from Elsewhere
The Five-Year Engagement
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Windfall
The Muppets
The Discovery
Production Credits
The Muppets
Shrinking
Windfall
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Sex Tape
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Five-Year Engagement
Get Him to the Greek
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