Nat Faxon

Nathaniel Wales Faxon is an American actor comedian director and Academy Awardwinning screenwriter He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for cowriting The Descendants 2011 and starred in the FOX comedy series Ben and Kate 20122013 the FX comedy series Married  20142015 and voices Elfo in the Netflix adult animated television series Disenchantment  2018 He is an alumnus of the Los Angelesbased improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings where he began performing in 2001 Hes best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County 2002 Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story 2007 Bad Teacher 2011 Zookeeper 2011 Tammy 2014 Sex Tape 2014 Life of the Party 2018 Father of the Year 2018 and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest 2006 He also appeared in Charlies Angels 2019 He costarred in Darren Stars semiautobiographical satire Grosse Pointe and had recurring roles in several television series such as The Cleveland Show Joey Up All Night and Reno 911 He has been featured in a series of prominent Holiday Inn commercials featuring Joe Buck as well as an ad by Blockbuster However he did not get a significant lead role until 2012 when he starred as the titular Ben in Ben and Kate He starred alongside Judy Greer in the FX comedy series Married 2014 which ran for two seasons Hes had major recurring roles as Jeremy de Longpre on the series Allen Gregory Nick on Netflixs Friends from College The Swede on Our Flag Means Death Arthur on Loot and Marshall on the series A League of Their Own Hes also had a recurring role as Neville Jackies love interest on The Conners He provides the voice for Captain Underpants and Mr Krupp in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as well as the Captain Underpants specials He also provides the voice for Chief on the series Housebroken He cowrote and codirected The Way Way Back 2013 and Downhill 2020 with writing partner Jim Rash