Jason Jordan Segel was born on the 18th January 1980, in Los Angeles, California USA. Not only is he best known for playing the role of Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”, but for working as an author and screenwriter with producer Judd Apatow on the TV series’ “Freaks And Geeks” (1999-2000) and “Undeclared” (2001-2003). He has been an active member of the entertainment industry since 1998
Have you ever wondered how rich Jason Segel is? According to sources, it is estimated that Jason Segel`s total net worth is $30 million, an amount earned through his successful career as an actor now spanning close to 20 years.
Jason Segel Net Worth $30 Million
Jason was raised the middle child in a christian-jewish family. Segel had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, but went to St. Matthew’s Parish School, a private Episcopal school. He completed his high school studies at Harvard-Westlake School.
Jason`s professional career began in 1998, when he acquired a small role in the comedy film “Can`t Hardly Wait”. The year 1999, brought his first major appearance; he was cast in the role of Nick Andopolis in the TV series “Freaks And Geaks” (1999-2000), on which he co-worked with producer Judd Apatow. Furthermore, the two extended their collaboration to another TV series, “Undeclared” (2001-2003), in which Jason also made an appearance in addition to producing.
Anyway, Jason`s net worth began to increase significantly since 2005, after he earned one of the lead roles in the TV series “How I Met Your Mother” (2005-2014), alongside Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan. Moreover he was also a member of the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” cast, as Neil Jansen, appearing in a few episodes from 2004 to 2005.
Jason has also had numerous appearances in film productions; in 2008 he made his debut as a director of Nicholas Stoller’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshal”. Segel is also credited as a writer of the popular film “The Muppets”, which was released in 2011, and in which he also made an appearance. Further in his film roles, Jason starred in the film “Bad Teacher” (2011).
All these roles increased his net worth to a large degree, and also had an effect on his popularity, enabling him to acquire new roles and to extend even further his total wealth.
In 2012, he again collaborated with Jud Apatow, as he landed a role in his film “This Is 40”.
His latest ventures in the entertainment industry include appearances in the films “Sex Tape” (2014) as the lead role of Jay alongside Cameron Diaz, and an appearance in the film “The End Of The Tour” (2015), in which he portrays the highly praised American novelist David Foster Wallace, which also benefited to his net worth.
Overall, Jason is a talented actor, who has dedicated his life to the entertainment industry; his career has so far spanned more than 30 film and TV titles, for which he has earned numerous prestigious accolades, including the Chicago Film Critics Association Lifetime Achievement award in 2011, among many others.
Regarding his personal life, Jason has had problems with alcohol, however he managed to overcome the addiction, and has been sober since 2013.
Furthermore to his personal life, Segel is a minister with the Universal Life Church, and he performed a wedding on “The Tonight Show” on 6th July 2010.
Critics Choice Award for Best Song (2011), Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)
Nominations
Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (2015)
Movies
“Sex Tape” (2014), “The Muppets” (2011), “Can`t Hardly Wait” (1998), Forgetting Sarah Marshal (2008)
TV Shows
The Tonight Show (2010), “Undeclared” (2001-2003), How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000), The End of the Tour (2015)
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Trademark
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Often plays nerdy and sensitive characters.
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Towering height
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Often sings in his performances
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[on his religion] My father is Jewish and my mother is Christian... but I was raised Jewish. So I'm at this [Christian] school and they really don't like me very much there. And then after Christian school I would walk in the afternoons to Hebrew school, and then at Hebrew school they would tell me that I wasn't really Jewish because my mother is Christian. So all of a sudden I'm like this young kid--I would have been happy to believe whatever--whoever would have been nice to me. You know? But it was this feeling of like not really belonging or not really fitting in... What occurred to me is this certainly isn't God. God doesn't want an 11- and 12-year-old kid to feel this way. You know? That my belief in God is that God wants you. You know? God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it. And so, it actually helped me forge this feeling of, "Alright, you know what, kid, it's you and God, and it's you and the world." It gave me a bit of a feeling of solitude that I think came in handy during my out-of-work periods, where when I decided the only way I was going to make it was if I started writing. It was actually--I'm very grateful that I got that feeling at such a young age, because I felt like, "You know what, *you* better do it. It's gotta be you."
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One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.
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[on the Muppets] They'e not puppets. We never use the word puppet because Kermit is a frog, Piggy is a pig. They exist in the world, like we do.
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{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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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.
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Fact
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He wrote and starred in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.' He also plays a character named Marshall on 'How I Met Your Mother.'.
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Segel means "sail" in German.
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His father's family is Jewish (from Russia, Poland, and Austria). His mother has English, Scottish, Irish, and fairly distant French, ancestry. Jason had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
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Received Harvard University's Hasty Pudding 2012 Man of the Year award on February 3, 2012.