Nat Faxon

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1975-10-11 (49 years old)

Place of Birth Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As Nathaniel Faxon, Nat Faxton, 奈特·法松

Nat Faxon

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Orion and the Dark

as Insomnia (voice)

2024
2023
Mulligan

as Matty Mulligan (voice)

2023
Frog and Toad

as Frog (voice)

2022
The Moon and Back

as Peter Gilbert

2022
2022
2022
Loot

as Arthur

2022
Gaslit

as Bob Haldeman

2022
2021
YES DAY

as Mr. Deacon

2021
Bird & Squirrel

as Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)

2021
2021
HouseBroken

as Chief (voice)

2021
The Great North

as Calvin Prescott (voice)

2020
Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas

as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)

2020
Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama

as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)

2020
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)

2020
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

as Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)

2019
Charlie's Angels

as Fleming

2019
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween

as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)

2019
Ready or Not

as Justin (voice)

2019
Euphoria

as Rick

2019
Tacoma FD

as Frenchie

2018
2018
2018
The Conners

as Neville

2018
Disenchantment

as Elfo (voice)

2018
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)

2018
Summer Camp Island

as Popular Banana Split (voice)

2017
2017
Great News

as Anthony Lyon

2016
Operator

as Gregg

2016
Speechless

as Undercover Boss

2015
2014
Sex Tape

as Max

2014
Tammy

as Greg

2014
Benched

as Harold

2014
Marry Me

as Scooby

2014
black-ish

as Joseph Everton

2014
Married

as Russ Bowman

2013
2012
Freeloaders

as Fritz

2012
The Babymakers

as Zig-Zag

2012
Ben and Kate

as Ben Fox

2012
Comedy Bang! Bang!

as Earl or Crathmore

2011
Zookeeper

as Dave

2011
Bad Teacher

as Mark

2011
Allen Gregory

as Jeremy De Longpre

2011
Up All Night

as Lawrence

2011
Happy Endings

as Chef Leslie

2009
The Slammin' Salmon

as Carl the Manager

2009
Party Down

as Garlan Greenbush

2008
Lower Learning

as Turner Abernathy

2008
Hamlet 2

as Glenn from Copy Shop

2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

as Awards Show Stage Manager

2007
The TV Set

as Reporter

2007
Mad Men

as Flatty

2006
Beerfest

as Rolf

2005
My Name Is Earl

as Kenny's Boyfriend

2005
American Dad!

as (voice)

2004
Club Dread

as Manny

2004
Joey

as Bodie

2003
NCIS

as Carter Finch

2003
Reno 911!

as Milk Shake

2003
Reno 911!

as Head Shop Clerk

2002
Slackers

as Karl, the Grad Student

2002
2000
Grosse Pointe

as Kevin

1999
Family Guy

as Coach Herrera (voice)

1999
Family Guy

as Water Park Employee (voice)

1999
Family Guy

as (voice)

1999
Family Guy

as Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)

Director

The Heart

as Director

2020
Downhill

as Director

2013
The Way Way Back

as Director

2009
Community

as Director

Writer

2020
Downhill

as Screenplay

2013
2011
The Descendants

as Screenplay

Producer

Miss You, Love You

as Producer

2018
Thoroughbreds

as Producer

2013
The Way Way Back

as Executive Producer