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Jason Segel More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

18 January 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Jason Jordan Segel

Height

6' 4" (1.93 m)

Trivia

He was on a high school basketball team that won state in California.

He plays piano.

He loves Disneyland.

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.

Likes classic rock and reggae music.

Has a sister, Alison, born March 9, 1986.

Has an older brother named Adam.

His father Alvin is a lawyer, and his mother Jill is a homemaker.

Personal Quotes

When a woman does nudity in a movie, men immediately switch into a sexual mode. For women, from what I understand, it's not like that. They see a naked, out-of-shape man crying and it's funny -- something weird, disturbing and disgusting we can all laugh at.

{On his full-frontal performance in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)] I drank a lot to get me through that. I remember just pacing up and down, drunk, with these voices in my head saying, "Jason, what are you doing?" I'm a little nervous, I won't get a date anymore, they won't be satisfied with what they saw.

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