Jason Jordan Segel is an American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter.
31 Facts About Jason Segel
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Jason Segel is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as well as his work with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and for the critically successful comedies in which he has starred, written, and produced.
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Jason Segel was born on January 18,1980, in Los Angeles, California, to Jillian and Alvin Jason Segel, a lawyer.
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Jason Segel has an older brother, Adam, and a younger sister, Alison.
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Jason Segel's father is Jewish, whereas his mother is of English, Scottish, Irish, and French descent.
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Jason Segel has stated that he was raised Jewish, as well as "a little bit of everything".
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Jason Segel went to Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, and attended St Matthew's Parish School, a private Episcopal school.
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Jason Segel personally composed a song for his character, Nick, to sing to the lead female character, Lindsay.
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Jason Segel had recurring roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Neil Jansen and on Undeclared as Eric.
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Jason Segel 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 expired, but was convinced to finish the series after its ninth season in 2014.
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Jason Segel made his film debut with Can't Hardly Wait in 1998.
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Jason 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.
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Jason Segel starred in I Love You, Man, which was released on March 20,2009, by DreamWorks.
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In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel's character writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets.
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Jason Segel appeared in the most prominent scene containing full frontal nudity in the film.
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Jason Segel performed a song from the film, "Dracula's Lament", on the 1000th episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
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Jason Segel appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and sang an original song entitled "Wonky Eyed Girl".
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Jason Segel appeared in Bad Teacher, starring Cameron Diaz, which opened in June 2011.
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Jason Segel played gym teacher and thwarted suitor Russell Gettis.
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Disney was unsure on how to take the request, as Jason Segel had just done frontal nudity in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but after realizing that he was a fan, the project was approved.
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Jason 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.
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Jason Segel decided not to star in the sequel to The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted.
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Jason Segel filmed The Five-Year Engagement, with Emily Blunt, in spring 2011, in Michigan, and the film was released on April 27,2012.
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In 2013, Jason Segel revealed he was working on a series of young adult novels, based on a story he conceived when he was 21.
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In 2015, Jason Segel received praise for his portrayal of the late author David Foster Wallace in the independent biographical drama film The End of the Tour.
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Jason Segel created and starred in the American drama television series Dispatches from Elsewhere, which premiered on March 1,2020, on AMC.
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In 2019, Jason Segel starred in Our Friend based on Matthew Teague's 2015 essay "The Friend".
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Jason Segel is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church.
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Jason Segel 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.
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Jason Segel dated his Freaks and Geeks co-star Linda Cardellini for several years following the show's cancellation.
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From December 2013 to April 2021, Jason Segel dated photographer Alexis Mixter.