Jason Segel

At 44 years old, Jason Segel has this physical status:

Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as well as for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and for the critically and commercially successful comedies he has starred in, written, and produced. Segel has starred in several films, including Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Despicable Me (2010), Bad Teacher (2011), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Muppets (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), Sex Tape (2014) and The Discovery (2017).

His performance as the late author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film The End of the Tour was met with critical acclaim, earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.

In 2012, Segel was named the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year.

Early life

Segel was born on January 18, 1980, in Los Angeles, to Jillian (née Jordan; born 1952) and Alvin Segel, a lawyer. He grew up in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. He has an older brother, Adam, and a younger sister, Alison.

Segel's father is Jewish, whereas his mother is of English, Scottish, Irish, and French descent. He has stated that he was raised Jewish, as well as "a little bit of everything". Segel went to Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and also attended St. Matthew's Parish School, a private Episcopal school.

Following elementary school and middle school, Segel completed his high school studies at Harvard-Westlake School, where his 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) frame helped him as an active member of the 1996 and 1997 CIF state champion boys' basketball team. He won a slam dunk contest in high school and he was nicknamed "Dr. Dunk." He was a backup to the team's star center, Jason Collins, who went on to play in the NBA.

Personal life

Segel is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church. He performed a wedding ceremony on The Tonight Show on July 6, 2010, for a couple that solicited his services by placing pictures of him around his home town and the bar he frequently visited.

Segel dated his Freaks and Geeks co-star Linda Cardellini for five years following the show's cancellation. He dated Michelle Williams from 2012 to 2013. From December 2013 to April 2021, Segel dated photographer Alexis Mixter.

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Career

Segel's first big role was as stoner "freak" Nick Andopolis on the critically acclaimed yet brief 1999 NBC comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks. Around 1980, a group of suburban Detroit high school students became the subject of the series. Segel personally crafted a song for his character Nick for his role, Lindsay (Linda Cardellini), to sing to Lindsay, the lead female character.

Segel appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Neil Jansen and in Undeclared as Eric. Marshall Eriksen appeared on CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, but after its ninth season in 2014, he was compelled to finish the series.

In 1998, Segel made his film debut with Can't Wait. Slackers, SLC Punk!, The Good Humor Man, and Dead Man on Campus were among his early film appearances. He appeared in Knocked Up, directed by Freaks and Geeks producer Judd Apatow in 2007. Segel appeared in the lead role of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a film he wrote and Apatow produced with Shauna Robertson for Universal Pictures. He appeared in DreamWorks' I Love You, Man, on March 20, 2009.

Sarah Marshall's character develops a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets in Forgetting. He also appeared in the film's most prominent scene with full frontal nudity. In an interview, he said that the Dracula musical with puppets, as well as being broken up with while naked, were real experiences he wrote about into the film. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Jim Henson Company, and the knowledge inspired Segel to pitch his idea for a Muppets film. On the 1000th episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Segel performed a song from the film "Dracula's Lament."

Segel co-wrote the majority of the soundtrack's songs, including Infant Sorrow, for the 2010 comedy Get Him to the Greek. He appeared on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show and performed an original song titled "Wonky Eyed Girl."

In 2010, he voiced Gru's arch-rival Vector in the Universal's CGI animated film Despicable Me and appeared as "Horatio" in a fantasy adventure film Gulliver's Travels directed by Rob Letterman and loosely based on Part One of Jonathan Swift's 18th-century novel of the same name. Segel appeared in Bad Teacher, starring Cameron Diaz, which opened in June 2011. Russell Gettis, a gymnast and a thwarted suitor, played gym instructor and thwarted suitor. Segel, along with Nicholas Stoller, approached Disney in 2007 to write the newest Muppets film. After discovering that he was a fan, Disney was unsure how to honor the request. Segel said he wanted to do the film because the last film in the series to be released in theaters was Muppets From Space in 1999, and he felt that the younger generation was missing out on enjoying one of his childhood favorites.

Segel decided not to appear in The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted's sequel. In spring 2011, in Michigan, he directed The Five-Year Engagement, with Emily Blunt, and the film was released on April 27, 2012.

Segel revealed in 2013 that he was working on a series of young adult books based on a tale he imagined when he was 21. In the fall of 2014, the first book of the series Nightmares!, co-written by Kirsten Miller, was published, with a sequel following year.

Segel received accolades for his portrayal of late author David Foster Wallace in the independent biographical drama film The End of the Tour in 2015. He was nominated for Best Male Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards for his efforts.

Otherworld, Segel and Miller's first young adult novel, was published in 2017. Segel created and appeared in the American drama television series Dispatches from Elsewhere, which premiered on AMC on March 1, 2020.

Segel appeared in Our Friend, based on Matthew Teague's essay "The Friend" in 2015.

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