Nat Faxon

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.

Cast

Club Dread

(Manny)

Orange County

(Kip)

The Moon and Back

(Peter Gilbert)

Beerfest

(Rolf)

The Slammin' Salmon

(Carl the Manager)

Lower Learning

(Turner Abernathy)

Zookeeper

(Dave)

The TV Set

(Reporter)

The Babymakers

(Zig-Zag)

The Way Way Back

(Roddy)

Bird & Squirrel

(Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice))

Tammy

(Greg)

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

(Jim Hartson (voice))

Sex Tape

(Max)

Orion and the Dark

(Insomnia (voice))

Freeloaders

(Fritz)

The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday

(Self - Contestant)

Operator

(Gregg)

Bad Teacher

(Mark)

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

(Paramedic #2)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

(Awards Show Stage Manager)

Father of the Year

(Mardy)

Life of the Party

(Lance)

Charlie's Angels

(Peter Fleming)

Romy and Michele: In the Beginning

(Chad)

The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween

(Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice))

Slackers

(Karl, the Grad Student)

Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama

(Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice))

Ready or Not

(Justin (voice))

YES DAY

(Mr. Deacon)

Hamlet 2

(Glenn from Copy Shop)

Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas

(Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice))

Happy Hour

The Great North

(Calvin Prescott (voice))

NCIS

(Carter Finch)

Grosse Pointe

The Conners

(Neville)

HouseBroken

(Chief (voice))

Mulligan

(Matty Mulligan (voice))

Reno 911!

(Milk Shake)

Reno 911!

(Head Shop Clerk)

Ben and Kate

(Ben Fox)

Allen Gregory

(Jeremy De Longpre)

Married

(Russ Bowman)

Benched

(Harold)

Family Guy

(Coach Herrera (voice))

Family Guy

(Water Park Employee (voice))

Family Guy

((voice))

Comedy Bang! Bang!

(Earl or Crathmore)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

(Self)

Tacoma FD

(Frenchie)

Great News

(Anthony Lyon)

Our Flag Means Death

(The Swede)

Friends from College

(Nick)

Loot

(Arthur)

Blaze and the Monster Machines

(Pickle)

Speechless

(Undercover Boss)

The Great American Baking Show

(Self)

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

(Pharaoh (voice))

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

(Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice))

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space

(Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice))

Gaslit

(Bob Haldeman)

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

(Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice))

Disenchantment

(Elfo (voice))

The Guest Book

(Derek)

Up All Night

(Lawrence)

Summer Camp Island

(Popular Banana Split (voice))

Life in Pieces

(Hayes)

A League of Their Own

(Marshall)

Grosse Pointe

(Kevin)

My Name Is Earl

(Kenny's Boyfriend)

black-ish

(Joseph Everton)

Party Down

(Garlan Greenbush)

Mad Men

(Flatty)

After Midnight

(Self)

American Dad!

((voice))

Family Guy

(Jet Li's Nemesis (voice))

Joey

(Bodie)

Frog and Toad

(Frog (voice))

Happy Endings

(Chef Leslie)

Euphoria

(Rick)

Marry Me

(Scooby)

Marvel's Hit-Monkey

(Boone)