Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18 1980) is an American television and film actor, best known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and for the role of Marshall Eriksen in the popular CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Segel stars and wrote the Universal Pictures comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and will appear in I Love You, Man for Dreamworks.
He was on a high school basketball team who 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 (II) were huge fans.
Likes classic rock and reggae music.
Has a sister, Alison, born March 9, 1986.
