
Nat Faxon
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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

Family Guy

American Dad!

NCIS

Life in Pieces

Mad Men

black-ish

My Name Is Earl

Robot Chicken

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

After Midnight

Reno 911!

Joey

Party Down

Great News

Up All Night

Happy Endings

Summer Camp Island

Marry Me

The Conners

Our Flag Means Death

Tacoma FD

Euphoria

A League of Their Own

The Great North

Marvel's Hit-Monkey

Gaslit

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

Bad Teacher

Life of the Party

Ready or Not

Orange County

Beerfest

Club Dread

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

The Way Way Back

Tammy

Charlie's Angels

Sex Tape

Orion and the Dark

YES DAY

Zookeeper

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

Friends from College

Loot

Disenchantment

Blaze and the Monster Machines

Father of the Year

Married

Frog and Toad

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

Mulligan
Production Credits
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