Jason Segel
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| Jason Segel | |
| Birth name | Jason Jordan Segel |
| Born | January 18, 1980 (age 27) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Notable roles | Nick Andopolis on the NBC series Freaks and Geeks
Marshall Ericksen on the CBS series "How I Met Your Mother" |
Jason Jordan Segel (born 18 January 1980) is a Jewish American television and film actor. He is best known for his role as "Freak" Nick Andopolis on the short-lived NBC comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks, about a group of suburban Detroit high school students circa 1980. He has also had recurring roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Undeclared. He currently plays Marshall on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which debuted on September 19, 2005.
Feature film appearances include Slackers, SLC Punk!, The Good Humor Man, and Dead Man on Campus. In 2007 he will appear in Knocked Up, starring Katherine Heigl and Paul Rudd and produced by Freaks and Geeks producer Judd Apatow.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Segel was a state champion basketball player in high school. He also plays the piano and wrote a song for his character, a drummer, to sing to the lead female character, Lindsay, in an episode of Freaks and Geeks.[1] Lindsay was played by Linda Cardellini. She and Segel dated until February 2006.
[edit] Film and television roles
| Year | Film or series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Peter | Pre-production |
| 2007 | Knocked Up | Jason | |
| 2005-present | How I Met Your Mother | Marshall Eriksen | TV series; 39 episodes to date |
| 2006 | Bye Bye Benjamin | Theodore Everest | |
| 2004-5 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Neil Jansen | TV series; 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Alias | Sam Hauser | TV series; 1 episode |
| 2005 | The Good Humor Man | Smelly Bob | |
| 2004 | LolliLove | Jason | |
| 2004 | Harry Green and Eugene | Eugene Green | TV series; unaired pilot [2] |
| 2003 | Certainly Not a Fairytale | Leo | |
| 2003 | 11:14 | Leon | |
| 2001-2 | Undeclared | Eric | TV series; 7 episodes |
| 2002 | Slackers | Sam Schechter | |
| 2001 | North Hollywood | Leon | |
| 1999-2000 | Freaks and Geeks | Nick Andopolis | TV series; 18 episodes |
| 1999 | New Jersey Turnpikes | ||
| 1998 | SLC Punk! | Mike | |
| 1998 | Dead Man on Campus | Kyle | |
| 1998 | Can't Hardly Wait | Matt, Watermelon Guy |
[edit] References
- ^ gbdesigns.com. "The William S. Paley Television Festival: A Dedication to Freaks and Geeks". Retrieved on January 12, 2007.
- ^ dangerousuniverse.com. "2004-2005 Television Pilots (Incomplete at Best)". Retrieved on January 12, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Jason Segel at the Internet Movie Database
- Bio on Freaks and Geeks official website
- Bio on How I Met Your Mother official website
- Spontaneously singing a duet from the musical Les Miserables with How I Met Your Mother co-star Neil Patrick Harris while the cast were guests on The Megan Mullally Show in December 2006
