Jason Segel American Actor Born 1980 in Los Angeles

Jason Segel, born 18 January 1980 in Los Angeles, is an American actor. Audiences know him from How I Met Your Mother (2005) and Bad Teacher (2011).

Early life

He went on to study at Harvard-Westlake School.

Career

He appears in Can't Hardly Wait (1998), the earliest title among his listed credits. SLC Punk! (1998) and Freaks and Geeks (1999, as Nick Andopolis) are among his 1990s credits. In the 2000s, he appeared in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and Knocked Up (2007). The 2010s brought Friends with Benefits (2011) and This Is the End (2013). His 2020s credits include Shrinking (2023) and Over Your Dead Body (2026).

He has 25 films and 6 TV series on record from 1998 to 2026. Romantic comedy is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (10), followed by comedy (8) and comedy drama (7). Of his four titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Gulliver's Travels (2010) has the highest, at $237 million. The records also name him as writer on 4 titles, including The Muppets.

Rashida Jones appears in three of his listed titles, including I Love You, Man (2009). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Emily Blunt (three titles) and Cameron Diaz (three titles). Jake Kasdan directed three of his titles on record, among them Sex Tape (2014). Judd Apatow is credited as director on two of them, including This Is 40 (2012).