Born
11 October 1975 (50)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as
Nathaniel Faxon, Nat Faxton
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 be...
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.
Super Troopers 3
2026
Greetings From Samson
2026
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
2025
The Trainer
2024
Orion and the Dark
2024
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
2022
The Moon and Back
2022
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022
YES DAY
2021
Bird & Squirrel
2021
Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas
2020
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
2020
Downhill
2020
Charlie's Angels
2019
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
2019
Ready or Not
2019
Father of the Year
2018
Life of the Party
2018
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
Operator
2016
Sex Tape
2014
Tammy
2014
The Way Way Back
2013
Freeloaders
2012
The Babymakers
2012
Zookeeper
2011
Bad Teacher
2011
The Slammin' Salmon
2009
Lower Learning
2008
Hamlet 2
2008
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
The TV Set
2007
Beerfest
2006
Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
2005
Club Dread
2004
Slackers
2002
Orange County
2002
The Medicine Show
2001
Mermaid
The Heart
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