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Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2005 to 2014. He began his career with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and Undeclared (2001–2002) before gaining prominence for his leading roles in various successful comedy films in which he has starred, written, and produced. Segel has starred in many comedic films such as Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Bad Teacher (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), and Sex Tape (2014), as well as family films such as Despicable Me (2010), and The Muppets (2011). For his role as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour (2015) he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also starred in the dramas Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Discovery (2017), Our Friend (2019), and Windfall (2022). In 2023, he began starring as a therapist in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which he also co-created alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. For his performance he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
The Origin of the Fantastic Four: Scientist Dr. Reed Richards, his girlfriend Susan Storm, Susan's step-brother and engineer Johnny Storm, and pilot Ben Grimm were hired to build and test an experimental new space shuttle. The ship went haywire soon after the crew’s arrival into orbit and it bathed it in cosmic rays, mutating the members on board. The crew made it back to Earth in an escape pod, but it was too late to avoid their genetic transformations; Reed’s flesh became super-stretchy, Susan discovered that she can bend and control light, Johnny became a living bonfire of radiation, and Ben's flesh became magnetized rock. The crew soon discovered that they were actually sent them to discover the exact coordinates of the anomaly, so that the energies could be harnessed as a weapon. The four used their new powers to expose the information, defeated Doctor Doom and his army of robots, and sent him back to Latveria with his tail between his legs. The team decided then and there to use their new powers to fight crime and thwart villains like Doom., alongside Johnny’s friend Max Parrish. They tried to join the Avengers, but were rebuffed, since the Avengers were not accepting new members at the time. Reed decided to make the four an auxiliary team and bought a home base at the top of the Baxter Building in New York for them to use as their headquarters. And thus begins the Fantastic Four.
