Nat Faxon

Known for ActingBorn 1975-10-11 (age 50)Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Nathaniel Wales Faxon is an American actor, comedian, director, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants (2011) and starred in the FOX comedy series Ben and Kate (2012–2013), the FX comedy series Married 2014–2015) and voices Elfo in the Netflix adult animated television series Disenchantment (2018-). He is an alumnus of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings, where he began performing in 2001. He's best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), Zookeeper (2011), Tammy (2014), Sex Tape (2014), Life of the Party (2018), Father of the Year (2018), and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest (2006). He also appeared in Charlie's Angels (2019). He co-starred in Darren Star's semi-autobiographical satire Grosse Pointe and had recurring roles in several television series such as The Cleveland Show, Joey, Up All Night and Reno 911!. He has been featured in a series of prominent Holiday Inn commercials featuring Joe Buck as well as an ad by Blockbuster. However, he did not get a significant lead role until 2012 when he starred as the titular Ben in Ben and Kate. He starred alongside Judy Greer in the FX comedy series Married (2014), which ran for two seasons. He's had major recurring roles as Jeremy de Longpre on the series Allen Gregory, Nick on Netflix's Friends from College, The Swede on Our Flag Means Death, Arthur on Loot, and Marshall on the series A League of Their Own. He's also had a recurring role as Neville, Jackie's love interest, on The Conners. He provides the voice for Captain Underpants and Mr. Krupp in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as well as the Captain Underpants specials. He also provides the voice for Chief on the series Housebroken. He co-wrote and co-directed The Way, Way Back (2013) and Downhill (2020) with writing partner Jim Rash.Read more

Movies & web series

Cartoon Cartoons

Frog and Toad

Euphoria

Love, Death & Robots

Ghosts

Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama

Mad Men

Community

Grosse Pointe

Solar Opposites

Summer Camp Island

Marvel's Hit-Monkey

Tacoma FD

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

Our Flag Means Death

My Name Is Earl

Robot Chicken

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

NCIS

Disenchantment

Party Down

Blaze and the Monster Machines

Family Guy

Life in Pieces

Reno 911!

The Way Way Back

Ready or Not

The Conners

black-ish

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

The Guest Book

The Great North

Gaslit

Speechless

American Dad!

The Trainer

Benched

A League of Their Own

Happy Endings

The Descendants

Loot

YES DAY

The Grinder

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween

Ben and Kate

Great News

Miss You, Love You