Nat Faxon
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 2012 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won The Descendants
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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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Acting
58 credits
NCIS
Family Guy
American Dad!
Euphoria
Mad Men
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Ghosts
Robot Chicken
black-ish
My Name Is Earl
Love, Death & Robots
Reno 911!
Solar Opposites
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Summer Camp Island
Ready or Not
The Cleveland Show
Disenchantment
The Great North
Loot
Reba
After Midnight
The Conners
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Life in Pieces
Happy Endings
Joey
Super Troopers 3
Watson
Speechless
Sex Tape
Party Down
Bad Teacher
Tacoma FD
Our Flag Means Death
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Mulligan
Charlie's Angels
Marvel's Hit-Monkey
Up All Night
Great News
Cartoon Cartoons
Gaslit
Frog and Toad
Friends from College
The Grinder
HouseBroken
A League of Their Own
Marry Me
The Guest Book
Orion and the Dark
Zookeeper
Rude Awakening
YES DAY
Benched
Grosse Pointe
Life of the Party
Beerfest
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