Jason Jordan Segel is also a screenwriter, songwriter, known author, singer, and producer of America besides being a famous actor. He was born in the 1980s. He goes popularly by the name of Jason Segel and is best known for his roles in comedy movies and series. Currently, he is 40 years old.
Jason was very popular for his long acting role in the CBS sitcom of How I Met Your Mother as Marshall Eriksen. It was one of the hits and famous sitcom that ran from 2005 to 2014. After that, he appeared in various roles in different comedic films. He was also given the title of Pudding Man of the Year in 2012.
Early Life of Jason Segel
Jason Segel was born in Los Angeles of California on January 18, 1980. His weight and height are 95 kg and 1.93 m tall respectively. His mother and father are Jillian and Alvin Segel. The profession of his father is a lawyer and mother a homemaker. He has two siblings, one elder, and one younger sister.
Their names are Adam Segel and Alison Segel respectively. Segel has somewhat a mixed ancestry as his father is Jewish and his mother is English, Scottish, Irish, and French. He attended elementary and middle school in Hebrew School and St. Matthew’s Parish School and completed high school at Harvard-Westlake School. Jason was very good at basketball during high school.
Jason Segel’s Career
Jason had an interest in acting throughout schooling. However, his acting role started at the age of 18 with his first acting role as Nick Andopolis in a 1980’s television series known as Freaks and Geeks. He worked very closely with Judd Apatow in the earlier stage of his career. Segel became popular after the series Freaks and Geeks and also good reception from critics. After that, he appeared in various other projects and worked on various series. His major and biggest role was as Marshall Eriksen in the How I Met Your Mother sitcom.
Jason Segel’s Filmography
Jason’s filming career started in the year 1998 with the can Hardly Wait film and his television series career started in the year 1999 with the Freaks and Geeks series. His last film was Our Friend in 2019. His last television series was Dispatches from Elsewhere in 2020. There is one more upcoming television series titled Home Movie: The Princess Bride in 2020. He appeared in several other films including Come Sunday, The Discovery, The End of the Tour, Sex Tape, The Muppets, This is 40, The Five-year Engagement, etc. His television series includes How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy, Saturday Night Live, Alias, Undeclared, and CSI: Criminal Scene Investigation.
Jason Segel’s achievements
Jason has been nominated for various awards since 2000. He won the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Critics Choice Award for Best Song for The Muppets. He got third place in the Seattle Film Festival Award for Best Actor and runner up in the Indiana Film Journalist Association Award for Best Actor for The End of the Tour. He got nominated in the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series: Young Ensemble for the first time for his first television series, Freaks and Greeks in the year 2000.
Jason Segel Net Worth
Jason Segel is a very successful person and has managed to garner name and fame in his life. He not only works in television and film but is also a singer, writer, and author. He has managed to earn an impressive amount of money. His net worth is estimated to be around $50 million in 2020. He was earning $225,000 per episode in How I Met Your Mother series. He was earning $5.4 million per year solely at one point in time from How I Met Your Mother series.
Jason brought home in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood at the price of $2.25 million in 2016. The same was sold by him at the price of $2.75 million in 2020. He also brought home in Pasadena, California at the price of $4.3 million in 2019. A house is owned by him in Chateau Marmont, West Hollywood, California, United States of America. He owns an Audi Q7 car at the price of $48,30 to $61,900.
Jason’s net worth was estimated to be $30 million in 2019. His net worth was estimated to be around $15 million in 2015. It is also expected that his net worth will be increased in the coming years.