Name
Nat Faxon
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1975-10-11 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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- 2004 Club Dread as Manny
- 2002 Orange County as Kip
- 2022 The Moon and Back as Peter Gilbert
- 2006 Beerfest as Rolf
- 2009 The Slammin' Salmon as Carl the Manager
- 2008 Lower Learning as Turner Abernathy
- 2011 Zookeeper as Dave
- 2007 The TV Set as Reporter
- 2012 The Babymakers as Zig-Zag
- 2013 The Way Way Back as Roddy
- 2021 Bird & Squirrel as Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
- 2014 Tammy as Greg
- 2022 Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe as Jim Hartson (voice)
- 2014 Sex Tape as Max
- 2024 Orion and the Dark as Insomnia (voice)
- 2012 Freeloaders as Fritz
- 2022 The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday as Self - Contestant
- 2016 Operator as Gregg
- 2011 Bad Teacher as Mark
- 2017 A Happening of Monumental Proportions as Paramedic #2
- 2007 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as Awards Show Stage Manager
- 2018 Father of the Year as Mardy
- 2018 Life of the Party as Lance
- 2019 Charlie's Angels as Peter Fleming
- 2005 Romy and Michele: In the Beginning as Chad
- 2019 The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2002 Slackers as Karl, the Grad Student
- 2020 Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
- 2019 Ready or Not as Justin (voice)
- 2021 YES DAY as Mr. Deacon
- 2008 Hamlet 2 as Glenn from Copy Shop
- 2020 Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2001 The Medicine Show as Delivery Guy
- 2026 Mermaid as Bill
- 2025 Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels as Pickle
- 2025 Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels as Joe
- 2025 Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels as Toy Store Clerk
- 2024 The Trainer as Nat Faxon
- 2026 Super Troopers 3 as Captain Markowski
- 2026 Greetings From Samson as Jozeph / Tony / Rando (voice)
- Soon Super Troopers 4 as Captain Markowski
- 2006 Happy Hour ( 13 episodes ) as Brad Cooper
- 2021 The Great North ( 1 episode ) as Calvin Prescott (voice)
- 2003 NCIS ( 1 episode ) as Carter Finch
- 2018 The Conners ( 15 episodes ) as Neville
- 2021 HouseBroken ( 30 episodes ) as Chief (voice)
- 2023 Mulligan ( 20 episodes ) as Matty Mulligan (voice)
- 2003 Reno 911! ( 5 episodes ) as Milk Shake
- 2003 Reno 911! ( 1 episode ) as Head Shop Clerk
- 2012 Ben and Kate ( 13 episodes ) as Ben Fox
- 2011 Allen Gregory ( 7 episodes ) as Jeremy De Longpre
- 2014 Married ( 23 episodes ) as Russ Bowman
- 2014 Benched ( 1 episode ) as Harold
- 1999 Family Guy ( 1 episode ) as Coach Herrera (voice)
- 1999 Family Guy ( 1 episode ) as Water Park Employee (voice)
- 1999 Family Guy ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
- 2012 Comedy Bang! Bang! ( 1 episode ) as Earl or Crathmore
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Tacoma FD ( 1 episode ) as Frenchie
- 2017 Great News ( 1 episode ) as Anthony Lyon
- 2022 Our Flag Means Death ( 11 episodes ) as The Swede
- 2017 Friends from College ( 16 episodes ) as Nick
- 2022 Loot ( 30 episodes ) as Arthur
- 2014 Blaze and the Monster Machines ( 179 episodes ) as Pickle
- 2016 Speechless ( 1 episode ) as Undercover Boss
- 2020 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space ( 6 episodes ) as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2020 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space ( 1 episode ) as Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
- 2022 Gaslit ( 3 episodes ) as Bob Haldeman
- 2018 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants ( 39 episodes ) as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- 2018 Disenchantment ( 50 episodes ) as Elfo (voice)
- 2017 The Guest Book ( 1 episode ) as Derek
- 2011 Up All Night ( 1 episode ) as Lawrence
- 2018 Summer Camp Island ( 1 episode ) as Popular Banana Split (voice)
- 2015 Life in Pieces ( 1 episode ) as Hayes
- 2022 A League of Their Own ( 4 episodes ) as Marshall
- 2005 My Name Is Earl ( 1 episode ) as Kenny's Boyfriend
- 2014 black-ish ( 1 episode ) as Joseph Everton
- 2009 Party Down ( 1 episode ) as Garlan Greenbush
- 2007 Mad Men ( 1 episode ) as Flatty
- 2024 After Midnight ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 American Dad! ( 2 episodes ) as (voice)
- 1999 Family Guy ( 1 episode ) as Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)
- 2004 Joey ( 3 episodes ) as Bodie
- 2023 Frog and Toad ( 18 episodes ) as Frog (voice)
- 2011 Happy Endings ( 1 episode ) as Chef Leslie
- 2019 Euphoria ( 1 episode ) as Rick
- 2014 Marry Me ( 1 episode ) as Scooby
- 2021 Marvel's Hit-Monkey ( 8 episodes ) as Boone
- 2015 The Grinder ( 1 episode ) as Lyle Gerhart
- 2025 BULLDOZER ( 1 episode ) as Steve
- 2005 Robot Chicken ( 1 episode ) as Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice)
- 2000 Grosse Pointe ( 17 episodes ) as Kevin 'The P.A.'
- 2025 Watson ( 2 episodes ) as Hobie McSorley
- 2021 Ghosts ( 1 episode ) as Alexander Hamilton
- 2019 Love, Death & Robots ( 1 episode ) as Waffle Maker (voice)
- 2020 Solar Opposites ( 1 episode ) as Bryson (voice)
- 2001 Reba ( 1 episode ) as Elder Care Worker
- 2009 The Cleveland Show ( 1 episode ) as Apologetic Janitor (voice)
- 2026 Cartoon Cartoons ( 1 episode ) as Bird / Racoon / Frog (voice)
- 2026 Cartoon Cartoons ( 1 episode ) as Jozeph / Tony / Rando (voice)
- 1998 Rude Awakening ( 1 episode ) as Slackula
- 2026 President Curtis ( 2 episodes ) as Michael in Accounting (voice)
- 2012 Are You There, Chelsea? ( 1 episode ) as Tim Kornick
