Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 11, 1975
Place of Birth:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels | Pickle |
| 2025 | Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels | Joe |
| 2025 | Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels | Toy Store Clerk |
| 2024 | Orion and the Dark | Insomnia (voice) |
| 2024 | The Trainer | Nat Faxon |
| 2022 | The Moon and Back | Peter Gilbert |
| 2022 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe | Jim Hartson (voice) |
| 2022 | The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday | Self - Contestant |
| 2021 | Bird & Squirrel | Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice) |
| 2021 | YES DAY | Mr. Deacon |
| 2020 | Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama | Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice) |
| 2020 | Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas | Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) |
| 2019 | Charlie's Angels | Peter Fleming |
| 2019 | The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween | Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) |
| 2019 | Ready or Not | Justin (voice) |
| 2018 | Father of the Year | Mardy |
| 2018 | Life of the Party | Lance |
| 2017 | A Happening of Monumental Proportions | Paramedic #2 |
| 2016 | Operator | Gregg |
| 2014 | Tammy | Greg |
| 2014 | Sex Tape | Max |
| 2013 | The Way Way Back | Roddy |
| 2012 | The Babymakers | Zig-Zag |
| 2012 | Freeloaders | Fritz |
| 2011 | Zookeeper | Dave |
| 2011 | Bad Teacher | Mark |
| 2009 | The Slammin' Salmon | Carl the Manager |
| 2008 | Lower Learning | Turner Abernathy |
| 2008 | Hamlet 2 | Glenn from Copy Shop |
| 2007 | The TV Set | Reporter |
| 2007 | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | Awards Show Stage Manager |
| 2006 | Beerfest | Rolf |
| 2005 | Romy and Michele: In the Beginning | Chad |
| 2004 | Club Dread | Manny |
| 2002 | Orange County | Kip |
| 2002 | Slackers | Karl, the Grad Student |
| 2001 | The Medicine Show | Delivery Guy |
| Mermaid | Bill | |
| Super Troopers 3 | Capt. Todd Markowski |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | BULLDOZER | Steve |
| 2025 | Watson | Hobie McSorley |
| 2024 | After Midnight | Self |
| 2023 | Mulligan | Matty Mulligan (voice) |
| 2023 | Frog and Toad | Frog (voice) |
| 2022 | Our Flag Means Death | The Swede |
| 2022 | Loot | Arthur |
| 2022 | Gaslit | Bob Haldeman |
| 2022 | A League of Their Own | Marshall |
| 2021 | The Great North | Calvin Prescott (voice) |
| 2021 | HouseBroken | Chief (voice) |
| 2021 | Marvel's Hit-Monkey | Boone |
| 2021 | Ghosts | Alexander Hamilton |
| 2020 | The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space | Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice) |
| 2020 | The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space | Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) |
| 2020 | Solar Opposites | Bryson (voice) |
| 2019 | Tacoma FD | Frenchie |
| 2019 | Euphoria | Rick |
| 2019 | Love, Death & Robots | Waffle Maker (voice) |
| 2018 | The Conners | Neville |
| 2018 | The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants | Pharaoh (voice) |
| 2018 | The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants | Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) |
| 2018 | Disenchantment | Elfo (voice) |
| 2018 | Summer Camp Island | Popular Banana Split (voice) |
| 2017 | Great News | Anthony Lyon |
| 2017 | Friends from College | Nick |
| 2017 | The Guest Book | Derek |
| 2016 | Speechless | Undercover Boss |
| 2015 | Life in Pieces | Hayes |
| 2015 | The Grinder | Lyle Gerhart |
| 2014 | Married | Russ Bowman |
| 2014 | Benched | Harold |
| 2014 | Blaze and the Monster Machines | Pickle |
| 2014 | black-ish | Joseph Everton |
| 2014 | Marry Me | Scooby |
| 2012 | Ben and Kate | Ben Fox |
| 2012 | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Earl or Crathmore |
| 2011 | Allen Gregory | Jeremy De Longpre |
| 2011 | Up All Night | Lawrence |
| 2011 | Happy Endings | Chef Leslie |
| 2009 | Party Down | Garlan Greenbush |
| 2007 | Mad Men | Flatty |
| 2006 | Happy Hour | |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2005 | My Name Is Earl | Kenny's Boyfriend |
| 2005 | American Dad! | (voice) |
| 2005 | Robot Chicken | Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice) |
| 2004 | Joey | Bodie |
| 2003 | NCIS | Carter Finch |
| 2003 | Reno 911! | Milk Shake |
| 2003 | Reno 911! | Head Shop Clerk |
| 2001 | Reba | Elder Care Worker |
| 2000 | Grosse Pointe | Kevin 'The P.A.' |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Coach Herrera (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Water Park Employee (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | (voice) |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Jet Li's Nemesis (voice) |