There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

He has an older half-brother Adam and a younger sister Alison. Rather he acted in local theater productions at Palisades Playhouse. Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18 1980) is an American actor screenwriter songwriter and musician.

He is known for his work with producer Judd Apatow on the cult classic short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared; the films Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Knocked Up; I Love You Man; Gulliver's Travels; Bad Teacher; Despicable Me; The Muppets and The Five-Year Engagement; and also for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother.