Jason Segel

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 19992000 and Undeclared 20012002 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 FiveYear 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 cocreated 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia