Cast & creator
Jason Segel
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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.
Also known as: Jason Jordan Segel
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film credits
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television credits
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1944–2026 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (96)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jeff Daniels
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Family Guy
Marshall Eriksen (voice)
1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Neil Jansen
2000
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Top Ten Presenter
1993
Conan
Self
2010Conan
Self - Guest
2010
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The View
Self
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
Jeopardy!
Self - Clue Presenter
1984
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
How I Met Your Mother
Marshall Eriksen
2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Hot Ones
Self
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Despicable Me
Vector (voice)
2010
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2009
Shrinking
Jimmy
2023Shrinking
Executive Producer
2023Shrinking
Writer
2023Shrinking
Creator
2023
The Megan Mullally Show
Self - Guest
2006
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Paul Westhead
2022
Freaks and Geeks
Nick Andopolis
1999
Sex Tape
Jay
2014Sex Tape
Screenplay
2014Sex Tape
Executive Producer
2014
Over Your Dead Body
Dan
2026
This Is the End
Jason Segel (uncredited)
2013
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Alias
Sam Hauser
2001
Undeclared
Eric
2001
Friends with Benefits
Brice (uncredited)
2011
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Fezzik
2020
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2023
Take Two with Phineas and Ferb
Self
2010
Bad Teacher
Russell Gettis
2011
Knocked Up
Jason
2007
The Muppets
Gary
2011The Muppets
Writer
2011The Muppets
Executive Producer
2011
I Love You, Man
Sydney Fife
2009
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Peter Bretter
2008Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Screenplay
2008
This Is 40
Jason
2012
Gulliver's Travels
Horatio
2010
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Peter
2020Dispatches from Elsewhere
Executive Producer
2020Dispatches from Elsewhere
Writer
2020Dispatches from Elsewhere
Director
2020Dispatches from Elsewhere
Creator
2020
Our Friend
Dane Faucheux
2019
Get Him to the Greek
Characters
2010Get Him to the Greek
Co-Producer
2010
Can't Hardly Wait
Watermelon Guy
1998
The Five-Year Engagement
Tom Solomon
2012The Five-Year Engagement
Screenplay
2012
The Sky Is Everywhere
Big
2022
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Frat Boy #1 (uncredited)
2006
The End of the Tour
David Foster Wallace
2015
11:14
Leon
2004
Cultureshock
Self
2018
The Discovery
Will Harbor
2017
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff Thompkins
2012
Dead Man on Campus
Kyle
1998
SLC Punk
Mike
1998
One World: Together at Home
Self
2020
Slackers
Sam Schechter
2002
Mooned
Vector (voice)
2023
The Good Humor Man
Smelly Bob
2005
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Self
2018
Windfall
Nobody
2022Windfall
Story
2022Windfall
Producer
2022
Come Sunday
Henry
2018Anxious People
2026Sponsor
Peter
Sponsor
Writer
Sponsor
Producer
New Jersey Turnpikes
1999
Rush: R40 Live
Himself
2015
Bye Bye Benjamin
Theodore Everest
2006
Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Sydney Fife
2011Jason Segel & Paul Rudd Meet Rush
Director
2011
North Hollywood
Gary Huffman
2001
LolliLove
Jason
2004Certainly Not a Fairytale
Leo
2003