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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.
A shy, unassuming high-school student, Peter Parker, was raisedby his aunt May and uncle Ben after his parents died when he was a kid. When Peter gets bitten by a genetically modified spider, he develops the superhuman abilities of super strength, wall-crawling and super reflexes, and with homemade web-shooters and costume he assumes the identity of Spider-Man! -- But one selfish action would cost him everything... He lets a robber go right past him and escape, and later that night he comes home to tragedy, his uncle Ben is dead, and was killed by that very same robber. Now, engulfed in regret and guilt, he swears to take care of his aunt May and protect New York City with his amazing abilities, with the words of his uncle Ben forever in his memory: "With great power, comes great responsibility."
