Nat Faxon Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Nat Faxon

Nat Faxon

Acting

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Club Dread movie poster
MOVIE

Club Dread

5.2(0.4K)
Club Dread
Manny
Orange County movie poster
MOVIE

Orange County

6.0(0.5K)
Orange County
Kip
The Moon and Back movie poster
MOVIE

The Moon and Back

5.6(0.0K)
The Moon and Back
Peter Gilbert
Beerfest movie poster
MOVIE

Beerfest

5.8(0.6K)
Beerfest
Rolf
The Slammin' Salmon movie poster
MOVIE

The Slammin' Salmon

5.8(0.2K)
The Slammin' Salmon
Carl the Manager
Lower Learning movie poster
MOVIE

Lower Learning

4.6(0.1K)
Lower Learning
Turner Abernathy
Zookeeper movie poster
MOVIE

Zookeeper

5.4(1.8K)
Zookeeper
Dave
The TV Set movie poster
MOVIE

The TV Set

6.0(0.1K)
The TV Set
Reporter
The Babymakers movie poster
MOVIE

The Babymakers

5.0(0.1K)
The Babymakers
Zig-Zag
The Way Way Back movie poster
MOVIE

The Way Way Back

7.1(1.9K)
The Way Way Back
Roddy

Production

The Descendants movie poster
MOVIE

The Descendants

6.8(3.1K)
The Descendants
Screenplay
The Way Way Back movie poster
MOVIE

The Way Way Back

7.1(1.9K)
The Way Way Back
Director
The Way Way Back movie poster
MOVIE

The Way Way Back

7.1(1.9K)
The Way Way Back
Writer
The Way Way Back movie poster
MOVIE

The Way Way Back

7.1(1.9K)
The Way Way Back
Executive Producer
Miss You, Love You movie poster
MOVIE

Miss You, Love You

5.5(0.0K)
Miss You, Love You
Producer
Thoroughbreds movie poster
MOVIE

Thoroughbreds

6.4(1.3K)
Thoroughbreds
Producer
Downhill movie poster
MOVIE

Downhill

5.2(0.3K)
Downhill
Director
The HeartMOVIE
MOVIE

The Heart

Not rated yet
The Heart
Director
Downhill movie poster
MOVIE

Downhill

5.2(0.3K)
Downhill
Screenplay
Team HoytMOVIE
MOVIE

Team Hoyt

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Team Hoyt
Director

Gallery

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Nat Faxon portrait
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