1975-10-11 ( 49 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Orion and the Dark
2024-02-01
The Moon and Back
2022-10-07
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022-06-23
YES DAY
2021-03-11
Bird & Squirrel
2021-02-18
Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas
2020-12-04
Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama
2020-02-11
Charlie's Angels
2019-11-14
Ready or Not
2019-08-21
Father of the Year
2018-07-20
Life of the Party
2018-05-10
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017-05-05
Operator
2016-10-14
Sex Tape
2014-07-17
Tammy
2014-07-02
The Way Way Back
2013-06-06
Freeloaders
2012-12-18
The Babymakers
2012-08-03
Zookeeper
2011-07-06
Bad Teacher
2011-05-16
The Slammin' Salmon
2009-12-11
Lower Learning
2008-10-10
Hamlet 2
2008-01-21
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007-12-21
The TV Set
2007-04-06
Beerfest
2006-08-25
Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
2005-05-30
Club Dread
2004-02-27
Slackers
2002-02-01
Orange County
2002-01-11
The Medicine Show
2001-10-10
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