Jason Segel
Acting • Born 1980-01-18
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
68 credits
Slackers
Movie • 2002
Sam Schechter
Despicable Me
Movie • 2010
Vector (voice)
Knocked Up
Movie • 2007
Jason
SLC Punk
Movie • 1998
Mike
11:14
Movie • 2004
Leon
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Movie • 2008
Peter Bretter
Dead Man on Campus
Movie • 1998
Kyle
The Good Humor Man
Movie • 2005
Smelly Bob
I Love You, Man
Movie • 2009
Sydney Fife
Gulliver's Travels
Movie • 2010
Horatio
Bad Teacher
Movie • 2011
Russell Gettis
LolliLove
Movie • 2004
Jason
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Movie • 2012
Jeff Thompkins
The Five-Year Engagement
Movie • 2012
Tom Solomon
This Is 40
Movie • 2012
Jason
Sex Tape
Movie • 2014
Jay
The End of the Tour
Movie • 2015
David Foster Wallace
Mooned
Movie • 2023
Vector (voice)
The Muppets
Movie • 2011
Gary
North Hollywood
Movie • 2001
Gary Huffman
This Is the End
Movie • 2013
Jason Segel (uncredited)
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Movie • 2011
Sydney Fife
The Discovery
Movie • 2017
Will Harbor
Bye Bye Benjamin
Movie • 2006
Theodore Everest
Can't Hardly Wait
Movie • 1998
Matt
Come Sunday
Movie • 2018
Henry
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Movie • 2018
Self
Our Friend
Movie • 2019
Dane Faucheux
Friends with Benefits
Movie • 2011
Brice (uncredited)
Rush: R40 Live
Movie • 2015
Himself
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Movie • 2006
Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
Certainly Not a Fairytale
Movie • 2003
Leo
The Sky Is Everywhere
Movie • 2022
Big
One World: Together at Home
Movie • 2020
Self
Windfall
Movie • 2022
Nobody
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
Movie • 2012
Over Your Dead Body
Movie • 2026
Sponsor
Movie
Peter
Anxious People
Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Neil Jansen
How I Met Your Mother
TV • 2005
Marshall Eriksen
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Alias
TV • 2001
Sam Hauser
Freaks and Geeks
TV • 1999
Nick Andopolis
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Undeclared
TV • 2001
Eric
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Marshall Eriksen (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Shrinking
TV • 2023
Jimmy
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
TV • 2022
Paul Westhead
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV • 2020
Fezzik
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Dispatches from Elsewhere
TV • 2020
Peter
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Conan
TV • 2010
Self
The Megan Mullally Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2023
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self