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Jason Segel
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American television and film actor, screenwriter and musician, known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, the movies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, and I Love You, Man, and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
Early life
Segel was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Pacific Palisades, California. Segel attended a Catholic School, though he was raised in his father's Jewish religion. Following the completion of elementary school, he completed his middle and high school studies at Harvard-Westlake School, where his 6'4" (193 cm) frame helped him as an active member of the state champion boys' basketball team. He was hoping to become an actor during his school days and acted in local theater productions at Palisades Playhouse.
Career
He is 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 also personally wrote a song for his character, Nick, to sing to the lead female character, Lindsay ( Linda Cardellini), in an episode of Freaks and Geeks. She and Segel dated for a few years following the show's cancellation, It was rumored that she dumped him for gaining twenty pounds, but it has since emerged that the statement was in fact a joke taken out of context.
Segel had recurring roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Neil Jansen and on Undeclared as Eric. He currently plays Marshall on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Feature film appearances 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 producer 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. His most recent film I Love You, Man was released on March 20, 2009 by Dreamworks.
Segel, along with Nicholas Stoller, has recently been enlisted by Disney to write and direct the next Muppets film. In Forgetting Sarah Marshall Segel's character writes a "Dracula" musical performed by puppets. In an interview with Opie and Anthony, when they were on 104.1 WBCN in Boston, he stated 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 Henson puppeteers, and the experience emboldened Segel to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie.
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Jason Segel to quit How I Met Your Mother? -
1 August 2012
-Actor Jason Segel is set to quit hit U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother after its upcoming eighth season, according to a report.-The funnyman has been portraying the loveable Marshall Eriksen on the Emmy-winning TV comedy since its inception in 2005, when he was cast
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Jason Segel forced to lose weight for new romance -
24 April 2012
-The Muppets star Jason Segel had to lose weight for his latest role in The Five-Year Engagement - because film bosses insisted he had to be more toned to romance Emily Blunt.-The funnyman admits he lost 35 pounds as he prepared to play the actress' fiance - and a tr
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Loved-up Williams and Segel go public at film afterparty -
19 April 2012
-Actress Michelle Williams and Jason Segel have gone public with their new romance by attending the New York afterparty for the funnyman's new romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement.-The new couple was first pictured together last month (Mar12), strolling hand-in-h
Jason Segel - what members say
review by onion from Weymouth
wow, meg! 21 October 2008
review by monthebiffmclean from Braintree
Great fun! 27 April 2009
review by GeorgieLord from
Ignore Fox - The Muppets is downright fantastic 19 February 2012
Jason Segel - filmography
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This Is the End
(2013)
Starring: Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel
Director: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
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Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen direct this comedy action movie in which a number of Hollywood stars, including Rogen himself, play fictionalised versions of themselves facing up to the apocalypse. When Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson attend a party at James Franco's ..read more »
 
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The Muppets - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Jack Black, Zach Galifianakis, The Muppets
Director: James Bobin
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Jim Henson's Muppets return in this Disney comedy starring Amy Adams and Jason Segel. When tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) plans to uproot the Muppet Theater to drill for oil, Muppet Walter (voice of Peter Linz), teams up with his brother, Gary (Segel) and Gary's girlfriend, Mary (Adams), to ..read more »
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The Muppets
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt
Director: James Bobin
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Muppet domination continues with a hilarious new movie from Walt Disney Studios. Jason Segel, Academy Award nominee Amy Adams (Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role, Junebug, 2005, Doubt, 2008, The Fighter, 2010) and Academy Award winner Chris Cooper (Best Performance By An Actor In A ..read more »
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Bad Teacher
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A comedy centred around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague-a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher.
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Bad Teacher - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A comedy centred around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague-a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher.
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from 10,309 members
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Despicable Me
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jason Segel, Steve Carell, Russell Brand
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
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In a happy suburban neighbourhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of tireless, little yellow minions, we discover Gru (..read more »
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Despicable Me - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Will Arnett, Jemaine Clement, Steve Carell
Director: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Computer-animated children's comedy about an arch-criminal who has a change of heart. Trying to outdo his main rival Vector (voice of Jason Segel), serial villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the moon, aided by his army of genetically altered corn pops. About to set his dastardly plan ..read more »
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How I Met Your Mother - Series 6
(2010)
Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders
Director: Pamela Fryman
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How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segel), dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, and now wife, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted ..read more »
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I Love You, Man
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Jaime Pressly
Director: John Hamburg
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Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers to his dismay that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his best man. Peter immediately embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates' to find such a friend, ..read more »
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I Love You, Man - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Paul Rudd, Joe Lo Truglio, J.K. Simmons
Director: John Hamburg
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Comedy directed by John Hamburg. After becoming engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones), the woman of his dreams, estate agent Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) realises to his horror that he has no male friend close enough to be his best man at the wedding. Peter embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-..read more »
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How I Met Your Mother - Series 5
(2009)
Starring: Bob Saget, Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan
Director: Pamela Fryman
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All 24 episodes from the fifth season of the American romantic comedy series following young architect Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) as he searches for love in New York City. Told through a series of flashbacks, the show is narrated by an older, off-screen Ted (Bob Saget), who regales his children with ..read more »
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Knocked Up - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Brianna, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd
Director: Judd Apatow
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Judd Apatow writes and directs this amiable comedy in which slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and up-and-coming career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl) meet at a bar and end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison asks to meet up with him and reveals that she is pregnant. ..read more »
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Slackers
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, James King, Mamie Van Doren
Director: Dewey Nicks
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SLACKERS includes some outlandish performances from Laura Prepon as Angela's sex-obsessed roommate and a startling cameo from 1950s screen siren Mamie Van Doren, but the action is propelled by the freakishly funny Jason Schwartzman, whose band, Phantom Planet, provides the film's music.
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Jason Segel facts
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...laying himself, he steals the show anyway. Didn't need to see quite so much of Jason Segels' todger though. Maybe he shouldv'e just stuck with Lilly.
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