From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things
Jason Segel truly is the ultimate unconventional hunk. Cute as hell, funny and usually plays the supporting player. In Forgetting Sarah Marshall he went from second fiddle to leading man. Great on How I Met Your Mother, I first got to know Jason during his days on the short lived Freaks and Geeks which sadly did not stay on the air long. Jason's nude scenes in Forgetting Sarah Marshall has created the kind of publicity which will ensure he gets parts for many years to come.
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, author, and screenwriter. He is known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as well as his work with producer Judd Apatow on the cult classic, short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared; the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up, I Love You, Man, Gulliver's Travels, Bad Teacher, Despicable Me, The Muppets and The Five-Year Engagement.
Segel was born on January 18, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Jillian (née Jordan), a homemaker, and Alvin G. Segel, a lawyer, and grew up in Pacific Palisades, California. His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian. He has stated that he was raised Jewish, as well as "a little bit of everything". He went to Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah, and also attended St. Matthew's Parish School, a private Episcopal school. He has an older half-brother, Adam, and a younger sister, Alison.
Following elementary school and middle school, Segel completed his high school studies at Harvard-Westlake School, where his 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) frame helped him as an active member of the 1996 and 1997 CIF state champion boys' basketball team. He was a backup to the team's star center, Jason Collins, who went on to play in the NBA. Segel had hopes of becoming a professional actor while in college, although he ultimately chose not to go to college. Instead, he acted in local theater productions at Palisades Playhouse.
Segel dated his Freaks and Geeks co-star Linda Cardellini for a few years following the show's cancellation. Segel dated actress Michelle Williams for about a year, breaking up at the end of February 2013.
He is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church. He performed a wedding ceremony on The Tonight Show on July 6, 2010 for a couple that solicited his services by placing wanted pictures of him around his home town and the bar he frequently visits.
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