Jason Segel

• Birthplace: Pacific Palisades, California
• Birthday: January 18, 1980

A gifted comic actor with a knack for playing neurotic or easily agitated types, Jason Segel first caught the attention of television audiences as a unabashedly lovelorn high schooler in Judd Apatow’s cult series “Freaks and Geeks” (NBC, 1999-2000). He soon became a regular member of Apatow’s repertory company for films and television, appearing in memorable supporting roles in the short-lived “Undeclared” (Fox, 2001-02) and the blockbuster hit “Knocked Up” (2007), before graduating to a lead in the 2008 comedy “Forgetting Sa…more