Nat Faxon
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.
Acted in
Orion and the Dark
2024
as Insomnia (voice)
Mulligan
2023
as Matty Mulligan (voice)
The Great American Baking Show
2023
as Self
Frog and Toad
2023
as Frog (voice)
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
2022
as Self - Contestant
The Moon and Back
2022
as Peter Gilbert
A League of Their Own
2022
as Marshall
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022
as Jim Hartson (voice)
Loot
2022
as Arthur
Gaslit
2022
as Bob Haldeman
Our Flag Means Death
2022
as The Swede
Marvel's Hit-Monkey
2021
as Boone
HouseBroken
2021
as Chief (voice)
YES DAY
2021
as Mr. Deacon
Bird & Squirrel
2021
as Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
The Great North
2021
as Calvin Prescott (voice)
Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas
2020
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
2020
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
2020
as Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama
2020
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Charlie's Angels
2019
as Peter Fleming
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween
2019
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Ready or Not
2019
as Justin (voice)
Euphoria
2019
as Rick
Tacoma FD
2019
as Frenchie
The Conners
2018
as Neville
Disenchantment
2018
as Elfo (voice)
Father of the Year
2018
as Mardy
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
2018
as Pharaoh (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
2018
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Summer Camp Island
2018
as Popular Banana Split (voice)
Life of the Party
2018
as Lance
The Guest Book
2017
as Derek
Friends from College
2017
as Nick
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
as Paramedic #2
Great News
2017
as Anthony Lyon
Operator
2016
as Gregg
Speechless
2016
as Undercover Boss
Life in Pieces
2015
as Hayes
Benched
2014
as Harold
Marry Me
2014
as Scooby
Blaze and the Monster Machines
2014
as Pickle
black-ish
2014
as Joseph Everton
Sex Tape
2014
as Max
Married
2014
as Russ Bowman
Tammy
2014
as Greg
The Way Way Back
2013
as Roddy
Freeloaders
2012
as Fritz
Ben and Kate
2012
as Ben Fox
The Babymakers
2012
as Zig-Zag
Allen Gregory
2011
as Jeremy De Longpre
Up All Night
2011
as Lawrence
Zookeeper
2011
as Dave
Bad Teacher
2011
as Mark
Happy Endings
2011
as Chef Leslie
The Slammin' Salmon
2009
as Carl the Manager
Party Down
2009
as Garlan Greenbush
Lower Learning
2008
as Turner Abernathy
Hamlet 2
2008
as Glenn from Copy Shop
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
as Awards Show Stage Manager
Mad Men
2007
as Flatty
The TV Set
2007
as Reporter
Happy Hour
2006
Beerfest
2006
as Rolf
My Name Is Earl
2005
as Kenny's Boyfriend
Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
2005
as Chad
American Dad!
2005
as (voice)
Joey
2004
as Bodie
Club Dread
2004
as Manny
NCIS
2003
as Carter Finch
Reno 911!
2003
as Milk Shake
Reno 911!
2003
as Head Shop Clerk
Slackers
2002
as Karl, the Grad Student
Orange County
2002
as Kip
Grosse Pointe
2000
Grosse Pointe
2000
as Kevin
Family Guy
1999
as Coach Herrera (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Water Park Employee (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)