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Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) played Marshall Eriksen on How I Met Your Mother. Other notable roles include TV shows Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and movies Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and I Love You, Man.
Early life[]
Jason was born in Los Angeles, Californi, born to Jillian (née Jordan), a homemaker, and Alvin G. Segel, a lawyer, and grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. His mother is Christian and his father is Jewish. He stated that he was raised Jewish, aside "a little bit of everything". He attended a Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah, and as well as going to St. Matthew's Parish School , a private Episcopal school. He has a younger sister called Alison and an older half-brother, Adam.
After elementary school and middle school, Segel finished his high school studies at Harvard-Westlake School, where his frame and height aided him as an active member of the 1996 and 1997 CIF state champion boys' basketball team. He was a backup for the team's star centers, twin brothers Jarron and Jason Collins. Segel hoped to of become a professional actor during college, however he ultimately chose not to attend college. Instead he acted in local theater productions at Palisades Playhouse.
Career[]
Segel's first major role was as stoner "freak" Nick Andopolis on the critically acclaimed yet short-lived 1999 NBC comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks. The series revolved around a gang of suburban Detroit high school students circa 1980. Segel personally composed one song for his character, Nick, to sing to the lead female character, Lindsay Linda Cardellini. She and Segel dated for a few years following the show's cancellation. It was rumoured that she dumped him for putting on too much weight, but it was later revealed that the statement was in fact a joke taken out of context.
He had recurring roles on CSI as Neil Jansen and on Undeclared as Eric. He played Marshall Eriksen on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother; he had previously stated he would move on to other projects in 2013 when his contract expires, but was successfully convinced to finish the series after its ninth season in 2014. Other filmography credits include Slackers, SLC Punk!, The Good Humor Man, and Dead Man On Campus . In 2007, he appeared in Knocked Up, directed by Freaks and Geeks creator Judd Apatow. Segel starred in the lead role of 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a film he wrote and Apatow produced with Shauna Robertson for Universal Pictures. He also performed in I Love You, Man, which was released on March 20, 2009 by Dreamworks.
In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segel's character writes a Dracula musical performed by puppets. He also appeared in a full frontal nude scene in the film. In an interview, he stated that the Dracula musical with puppets, as well as being broken up with while naked, were real experiences he wrote into the movie. Those cloth creatures were custom-made by the Jim Henson Company, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie. Segel performed a song from the film, entitled "Dracula's Lament", on the 1000th episode of Craig Ferguson's show on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
For the 2010 comedy Get Him to the Greek, Segel co-wrote most of the soundtrack's music which was performed by the fictional band Infant Sorrow. He also appeared on The Late Show with Craig Ferguson and sang an original song entitled "Wonky Eyed Girl".
In 2010, he voiced Gru's arch-rival Vector in the Universal's CGI animated film, Me and appeared as "Horatio" in a fantasy comedy film Gulliver's Travels directed by Rob Letterman and very loosely based on Part One of the 18th-century novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. Segel appeared in Bad Teacher, starring Cameron Diaz, which opened in June 2011. He played gym teacher and thwarted suitor Russell Gettis. Along with Nicholas Stoller, Segel approached Disney in 2007 to write the latest Muppets Film . Disney was unsure on how to take the request, as Segel had just done frontal nudity in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but after realizing that he was an avid fan, the project was approved. Segel stated that 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. He has stated that he will not star in the sequel to The Muppets. He filmed The Five-Year Engagement, with Emily Blunt, in spring 2011, in Michigan, and the film was released on April 27, 2012.
In 2013, Segel revealed he was working on a series of young adult novels, based on a tale he came up with when he was 21.
Personal life[]
Segel dated Michelle Williams for around one year, breaking up around the end of February 2013. Furthermore, he 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 wanted pictures of him around his home town and the bar he frequently visits.
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Can't Hardly Wait | Watermelon Guy | Film debut |
| Dead Man on Campus | Kyle | ||
| SLC Punk! | Mike | ||
| 1999 | New Jersey Turnpikes | Unknown | |
| 2001 | North Hollywood | Unknown | TV Movie |
| 2002 | Slackers | Sam Schechter | |
| 2003 | 11:14 | Leon (Paramedic #1) | |
| Certainly Not a Fairytale | Leo | ||
| 2004 | LolliLove | Jason | |
| 2005 | Good Humor Man | Smelly Bob | |
| 2006 | Bye Bye Benjamin | Theodore Everest | |
| Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | Frat Boy | Scenes deleted | |
| 2007 | Knocked Up | Jason | |
| 2008 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Peter Bretter | Also Writer Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Breakout Male |
| 2009 | I Love You, Man | Sydney Fife | |
| 2010 | Despicable Me | Vector | Voice only Animation debut |
| Get Him to the Greek | N/A | Writer/Producer Only | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Horatio | ||
| Todd vs. High School | Himself | ||
| 2011 | The Muppets | Gary | Also Writer/Executive Producer Critics Choice Award for Best Song Shared with Amy Adams and Bret McKenzie Nominated – Georgia Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Friends with Benefits | Brice | Uncredited | |
| Bad Teacher | Russell Gettis | ||
| Jeff, Who Lives at Home | Jeff | ||
| 2012 | This Is 40 | Jason | |
| The Five-Year Engagement | Tom Solomon | Also Writer/Executive Producer | |
| 2013 | This Is the End | Jason Segel | Post-Production |
| Undercover Cop | Actor | Script |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Freaks and Geeks | Nick Andopolis | Main role, 18 episodes Nominated — Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series: Young Ensemble |
| 2001–2002 | Undeclared | Eric | Recurring role, 7 episodes |
| 2004 | Harry Green and Eugene | Eugene Green | Unaired pilot |
| 2004–2005 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Neil Jansen | Episode: "Mea Culpa" Episode: "Compulsion" Episode: "Iced" |
| 2005 | Alias | Sam Hauser | Episode: "The Road Home" |
| 2005–2014 | How I Met Your Mother | Marshall Eriksen | Main role |
| 2009 | Family Guy | Marshall Eriksen | Episode: Peter's Progress |
| 2011 | Saturday Night Live | Himself, Host | Episode: "Jason Segel/Florence and the Machine |
| Take Two with Phineas and Ferb | Himself | Episode: "Jason Segel" |
Notes and Trivia[]
- His western zodiac sign is Capricorn and his Chinese zodiac sign is a Monkey.
External Links[]
- Jason Segel at the English Wikipedia
- Jason Segel on Twitter
- Jason Segel at the Internet Movie Database
- Jason Segel at the Muppets Wiki
References[]
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