Jason Segel Trivia | 30 facts about the actor

Jason Segel is 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.

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1. His full name is Jason Jordan Segel.
2. He was born on January 18, 1980.
3. He is an American actor, who is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014.
4. He began his career with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and Undeclared (2001–2002) before gaining prominence for his leading roles in various successful comedy films in which he has starred, written, and produced.
5. Segel has starred in many comedic films such as Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Bad Teacher (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), and Sex Tape (2014), as well as family films such as Despicable Me (2010), and The Muppets (2011).
6. For his role as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour (2015) he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
7. He also starred in the dramas Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Discovery (2017), Our Friend (2019), and Windfall (2022).
8. In 2022, he began playing the role of Paul Westhead in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
9. 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.
10. For his performance he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
11. Was chosen for the role of Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother (2005) because of his work on the short lived television show Freaks and Geeks (1999) of which creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas were huge fans.
12. Had a five year relationship (March 2001-January 2007) with his Dead Man on Campus (1998) and Freaks and Geeks (1999) co-star Linda Cardellini.
13. They played a couple both in the film and the TV show. Segel stated in an interview with Los Angeles Times that Cardellini was a great girlfriend and the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) was not based on her, it was more an amalgamation of a lot of different relationships and breakups he had.
14. He plays piano.
15. He was on a high school basketball team that won state in California.
16. Received Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding 2012 Man of the Year award on February 3, 2012.
17. Is an Ordained Minister with the Universal Life Church and married couple Jason Wood and Abbe Wood on Episode #18.79 (2010) on July 6th, 2010.
18. This was only the second marriage to be performed on the Tonight Show. The first marriage was Tiny Tim and his wife, Vicki Budinger, in 1969, on Episode dated 17 December 1969 (1969).
19. He loves Disneyland.
20. Likes classic rock and reggae music.
21. His father’s family is Jewish (from Russia, Poland, and Austria). His mother has English, Scottish, Irish, and fairly distant French, ancestry. Jason had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
22. Segel means “sail” in German and Swedish.
23. His father Alvin is a lawyer, and his mother Jill is a homemaker.
24. Has an older brother named Adam.
25. Has a sister, Alison, born March 9, 1986.
26. He wrote and starred in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) and he also plays a character named Marshall on How I Met Your Mother (2005).
27. Multi-talented Jason Jordan Segel was born in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised by his parents, Jillian (Jordan), a homemaker, and Alvin Segel, a lawyer. His mother is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and his father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.
28. Segel dated his Freaks and Geeks co-star Linda Cardellini for several years following the show’s cancellation.
29. He dated Michelle Williams from 2012 to 2013. From December 2013 to April 2021, Segel dated photographer Alexis Mixter.
30. On March 12, 2023, Deux Moi reported that Segel had started dating Kayla Radomski, who a dancer and actress who participated in the fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2009 and has appeared in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, The Little Mermaid Live! and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.