Jason Segel Biography (2)
In 1999, Segel portrayed Nick on Freaks and Geeks, Judd Apatow's Emmy Award-nominated television series for NBC. He played a lanky, fun-loving freak dreaming of stardom as a rock-and-roll drumme - like his idol, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. In 2000, he had a recurring role as Eric on Undeclared, the Fox series about college freshmen, which was named one of Time magazine's 10 Best Shows of 2001. Currently, Segel stars as Marshall, opposite Alyson Hannigan, Josh Radnor and Neil Patrick Harris, in the second season of the hit comedy series How I Met Your Mother, the story of a young man's struggle to find his true love. This series was also touted by Time magazine, hitting the list at no. 8 on the 10 Best Shows of 2005. He is currently in production on a film he wrote, also for Apatow and Universal Pictures, titled Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The comedy, loosely based on the demise of a recent relationship, began filming in Hawaii this spring.
Previous feature credits include Slackers, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, SLC Punk! Can't Hardly Wait and Dead Man on Campus.
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