Jason Segel: Celebrity Actor
Actor and creative storyteller Jason Segel delivers engaging insights on creativity, storytelling, and entertainment from starring in hit series, films, and award-winning writing and production projects.
Quick Facts:
- Star, co-creator, and executive producer of Shrinking (Apple TV+)
- Writer and lead actor of Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Co-writer of The Muppets, Academy Award-winning project
- Star of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
- Formats:
Keynote speaker and entertainment industry storyteller
- Audiences:
Creative professionals, media and entertainment organizations, marketing teams, and audiences interested in storytelling and innovation
- Outcomes:
- Understand the creative process behind successful content
- Learn how to develop and execute original ideas
- Gain insight into collaboration in entertainment and media
- Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
- **Fee range: $250,000 - $500,000
Keynote Topics
Moderated Q&A
- A Conversation with Jason Segel
Talent Short Bio
Jason Segel is an acclaimed actor, writer, director, and producer known for his versatility across film, television, and original content creation. With a career spanning comedy, drama, and independent storytelling, he has built a reputation as a creative force in the entertainment industry.
Segel currently stars in and executive produces the Apple TV+ series Shrinking alongside Harrison Ford, which he co-created with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. He also appeared in HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty and continues to take on diverse film roles, including Windfall and Our Friend.
He first rose to global prominence with Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which he wrote and starred in, earning over $100 million worldwide. His passion for storytelling extended into co-writing The Muppets, which grossed over $150 million and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Segel has also created and led projects like Dispatches from Elsewhere, showcasing his ability to blend creativity with meaningful narrative.
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Jason Segel is an actor, author, director, writer and producer. Most recently, Segel starred opposite Harrison Ford in AppleTV+’s,Shrinking, which he also executive produced and co-wrote with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. The series has been renewed for a second season.
Segel starred in HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. The show received a 2022 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for A Single-Camera Series (One Hour). Season 2 will premiere in the summer of 2023. In the film, he starred in Charlie McDowell’s feature Windfall.
He also starred opposite Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend. Prior to that, Jason Segel created, wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the anthology series, Dispatches from Elsewhere. The series, which premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for a 2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Limited Series or Anthology Series.
He landed his first major leading role in Nicholas Stoller’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The film, which Segel wrote, made over $100 million worldwide. Segel wrote a Dracula musical performed by puppets, which was a personal idea and passion he incorporated into the film, emboldening him to pitch his concept for a Muppets movie. He, along with Stoller, signed on to write The Muppets, which made over $150 million worldwide.
Additionally, the film won an Academy Award in 2012 for Best Original Song for “Man or Muppet,” written by Bret McKenzie and performed by Jason Segel. He also collaborated with Nicholas Stoller in 2010 to write and co-produce the film Get Him to the Greek where Jonah Hill and Russell Brand reunited as co-stars in a spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The film grossed over $90 million worldwide and won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Comedy.
Jason Segel is also well known for starring in Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival; Joshua Marston’s Come Sunday, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, John Hamburg’s I Love You, Man, Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass’ Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
On television, Jason Segel starred in How I Met Your Mother alongside Alyson Hannigan, Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, and Neil Patrick Harris. The show, which was created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, ran for nine seasons and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, a People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy and a Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Show: Comedy. He is also well known for starring in Judd Apatow’s Emmy-nominated television series Freaks and Geeks as well as Apatow’s Undeclared.
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