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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Family Guy
1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Conan
2010
Conan
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self · 2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
· 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Jeff Daniels · 2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest · 2014
The Daily Show
as Self · 1996
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Top Ten Presenter · 1993
Family Guy
as Marshall Eriksen (voice) · 1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Neil Jansen · 2000
Conan
as Self · 2010
Conan
as Self - Guest · 2010
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host · 1975
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self · 2005
The View
as Self · 1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest · 2003
Jeopardy!
as Self - Clue Presenter · 1984
How I Met Your Mother
as Marshall Eriksen · 2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest · 1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
· 1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self · 2003
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1944
Hot Ones
as Self · 2015
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest · 2009
Despicable Me
as Vector (voice) · 2010
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self · 2014
Shrinking
as Jimmy · 2023
The Megan Mullally Show
as Self - Guest · 2006
Freaks and Geeks
as Nick Andopolis · 1999
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
as Paul Westhead · 2022
Over Your Dead Body
as Dan · 2026
Sex Tape
as Jay · 2014
This Is the End
as Jason Segel (uncredited) · 2013
Entertainment Tonight
as Self · 1981
Friends with Benefits
as Brice (uncredited) · 2011
Alias
as Sam Hauser · 2001
Undeclared
as Eric · 2001
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self · 2023
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Fezzik · 2020
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
as Self · 2010
The Muppets
as Gary · 2011
Bad Teacher
as Russell Gettis · 2011
Knocked Up
as Jason · 2007
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
as Peter Bretter · 2008
I Love You, Man
as Sydney Fife · 2009
This Is 40
as Jason · 2012
Dispatches from Elsewhere
as Peter · 2020
Gulliver's Travels
as Horatio · 2010
Can't Hardly Wait
as Watermelon Guy · 1998
Our Friend
as Dane Faucheux · 2019
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
as Frat Boy #1 (uncredited) · 2006
The Sky Is Everywhere
as Big · 2022
The Five-Year Engagement
as Tom Solomon · 2012
11:14
as Leon · 2004
The End of the Tour
as David Foster Wallace · 2015
Cultureshock
as Self · 2018
The Discovery
as Will Harbor · 2017
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
as Jeff Thompkins · 2012
Dead Man on Campus
as Kyle · 1998
SLC Punk
as Mike · 1998
Windfall
as Nobody · 2022
Slackers
as Sam Schechter · 2002
Mooned
as Vector (voice) · 2023
One World: Together at Home
as Self · 2020
Come Sunday
as Henry · 2018
The Good Humor Man
as Smelly Bob · 2005
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
as Self · 2018
Sponsor
as Peter
Anxious People
· 2026
Rush: R40 Live
as Himself · 2015
New Jersey Turnpikes
· 1999
Bye Bye Benjamin
as Theodore Everest · 2006
LolliLove
as Jason · 2004
North Hollywood
as Gary Huffman · 2001
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
as Sydney Fife · 2011
Certainly Not a Fairytale
as Leo · 2003
Scratching the Surface: A Hasty Examination of the Making of The Muppets
· 2012