Nat Faxon
Born: 1975-10-11 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known For: 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
2026
- Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers as Capt. Todd Markowski
2025
- Watson as Hobie McSorley
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels as Pickle
- BULLDOZER as Steve
2024
- After Midnight as Self
- Orion and the Dark as Insomnia (voice)
- The Trainer as Nat Faxon
2023
- Mulligan as Matty Mulligan (voice)
- Frog and Toad as Frog (voice)
2022
- Loot as Arthur
- Our Flag Means Death as The Swede
- Gaslit as Bob Haldeman
- A League of Their Own as Marshall
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe as Jim Hartson (voice)
- The Moon and Back as Peter Gilbert
- The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday as Self - Contestant
2021
- Ghosts as Alexander Hamilton
- The Great North as Calvin Prescott (voice)
- YES DAY as Mr. Deacon
- Marvel's Hit-Monkey as Boone
- HouseBroken as Chief (voice)
- Bird & Squirrel as Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
2020
- Solar Opposites as Bryson (voice)
- Downhill ... (Director)
- Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
- Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2019
- Euphoria as Rick
- Love, Death & Robots as Waffle Maker (voice)
- Ready or Not as Justin (voice)
- Tacoma FD as Frenchie
- Charlie's Angels as Peter Fleming
- The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2018
- Summer Camp Island as Popular Banana Split (voice)
- Disenchantment as Elfo (voice)
- The Conners as Neville
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants as Pharaoh (voice)
- Life of the Party as Lance
- Father of the Year as Mardy
- Thoroughbreds ... (Producer)
2017
- Great News as Anthony Lyon
- Friends from College as Nick
- The Guest Book as Derek
- A Happening of Monumental Proportions as Paramedic #2
2016
- Speechless as Undercover Boss
- Operator as Gregg
2015
- Life in Pieces as Hayes
- The Grinder as Lyle Gerhart
2014
2013
- The Way Way Back as Roddy
2012
- Comedy Bang! Bang! as Earl or Crathmore
- Freeloaders as Fritz
- The Babymakers as Zig-Zag
- Ben and Kate as Ben Fox
2011
- Happy Endings as Chef Leslie
- Bad Teacher as Mark
- The Descendants ... (Screenplay)
- Zookeeper as Dave
- Up All Night as Lawrence
- Allen Gregory as Jeremy De Longpre
2009
- Community ... (Director)
- Party Down as Garlan Greenbush
- The Slammin' Salmon as Carl the Manager
2008
- Lower Learning as Turner Abernathy
- Hamlet 2 as Glenn from Copy Shop
2007
- Mad Men as Flatty
- The TV Set as Reporter
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as Awards Show Stage Manager
2006
- Beerfest as Rolf
- Happy Hour
2005
- American Dad! as (voice)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- Robot Chicken as Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice)
- My Name Is Earl as Kenny's Boyfriend
- Romy and Michele: In the Beginning as Chad
2004
- Joey as Bodie
- Club Dread as Manny
2002
- Slackers as Karl, the Grad Student
- Orange County as Kip
2001
- Reba as Elder Care Worker
- The Medicine Show as Delivery Guy
2000
- Grosse Pointe as Kevin 'The P.A.'
1999
- Family Guy as Coach Herrera (voice)