Jason Segel

American actor

Jason Segel is an American actor best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the TV sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’. He has also starred in numerous successful comedy films, and more recently, has taken on dramatic roles. In 2023, he began starring in the Apple TV+ series ‘Shrinking’, which he co-created.

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About the Jason Segel

Jason Jordan Segelis 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 Geeksand Undeclaredbefore 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 Uphe 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). From 2022 to 2023, he played the role of Paul Westhead in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

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 was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

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Jason Segel is an American actor best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’ from 2005 to 2014.

Jason Segel’s most famous role is as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’.

In addition to ‘How I Met Your Mother’, Jason Segel has starred in many successful comedy films such as ‘Knocked Up’, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’, and ‘I Love You, Man’. He has also appeared in dramas like ‘The End of the Tour’ and ‘Our Friend’.

Jason Segel was born on January 18, 1980.

In 2023, Jason Segel began starring as a therapist in the Apple TV+ series ‘Shrinking’, which he also co-created alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein.

For his role as David Foster Wallace in ‘The End of the Tour’, Jason Segel received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He was also recently nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in ‘Shrinking’.

Jason Segel began his career working with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and ‘Undeclared’ before gaining prominence for his leading roles in various successful comedy films.

12 Quotes by Jason Segel

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    I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, ‘Hey, fatty!’

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    I’ve been 6’4” since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

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    I sold my first script when I was 21 – this kids’ adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I’m pretty psyched about it.

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    I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don’t know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

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    Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

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    I’m better looking in person.

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    You guys own the Muppets, and you’re just kind of sitting on ’em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

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    If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

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    Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script – like, ‘Trac is grizzly!’ ‘This is unbearable!’ It’s the greatest.

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    I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. ‘You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

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    I’ve just grown a little disappointed with ‘Muppets in the Old West’, ‘Muppets Under Water’ and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80’s, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That’s what I’m trying to bring back.

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    There were some super-lean years, yeah. I’m six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn’t play the lawyer, but I couldn’t play the high school kid anymore.

    Jason Segel

    American actor