Jason Segel Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended high school with Jake Gyllenhaal
• Played high-school basketball with future Stanford and NBA players (and twins) Jarron and Jason Collins on a team that won a Division III state championship in 1996
• First break in show business was a small role in the film Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
• Was spotted by a casting scout from Paramount while performing in Edward Albee's play The Zoo Story at the age of 16, which led to being cast in the 1999-2000 cult TV show Freaks and Geeks
• Was nominated in 2000, along with the rest of the Freaks and Geeks cast, for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series---Young Ensemble
• In July 2010, became an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church to marry Abbe Thorner and Jason Wood on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
• The couple had approached Segel to preside after the person who was to officiate their wedding had to drop out