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Aliases: Nathaniel Faxon , Nat Faxton , 奈特·法松 , نت فاکسون

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Movie Involvements: 9

TV Involvements: 9


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

NCIS
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8

NCIS

(2003) Carter Finch
Euphoria
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8

Euphoria

(2019) Rick
Blaze and the Monster Machines
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7
Gaslit
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7

Gaslit

(2022) Bob Haldeman
Frog and Toad
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9

Frog and Toad

(2023) Frog (voice)
The Great American Baking Show
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0
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
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7

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

(2020) Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
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Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Insomnia (voice)
2023 Matty Mulligan (voice)
Self
Frog (voice)
2022 Self - Contestant
Peter Gilbert
Marshall
Arthur
Jim Hartson (voice)
Bob Haldeman
The Swede
2021 Chief (voice)
Mr. Deacon
Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
Calvin Prescott (voice)
2020 Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2019 Fleming
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Justin (voice)
Rick
Frenchie
2018 Neville
Elfo (voice)
Mardy
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Pharaoh (voice)
Popular Banana Split (voice)
Lance
2017 Derek
Nick
Paramedic #2
Anthony Lyon
2016 Gregg
Undercover Boss
2015 Hayes
2014 Harold
Pickle
Russ Bowman
Max
Greg
2013 Roddy
2012 Fritz
Ben Fox
Zig-Zag
Earl or Crathmore
2011 Jeremy De Longpre
Dave
Mark
Chef Leslie
2009 Carl the Manager
Garlan Greenbush
2008 Turner Abernathy
Glenn from Copy Shop
2007 Awards Show Stage Manager
Reporter
2006 N/A
Rolf
2005 Chad
(voice)
Self
2004 Bodie
Manny
2003 Carter Finch
Milk Shake
Head Shop Clerk
2002 Karl, the Grad Student
Kip
2000 N/A
1999 Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)
Coach Herrera (voice)
Water Park Employee (voice)
(voice)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2020 Director
2013 Director
2009 Director
Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2020 Screenplay
2013 Writer
2011 Screenplay
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Producer
2013 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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