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) a ... nd 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.
| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Blaze and the Monster Machines
as Pickle
Episodes: 164
First Aired: Oct 13, 2014
Disenchantment
as Elfo (voice)
Episodes: 50
First Aired: Aug 17, 2018
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Episodes: 39
First Aired: Jul 13, 2018
HouseBroken
as Chief (voice)
Episodes: 30
First Aired: May 31, 2021
Married
as Russ Bowman
Episodes: 23
First Aired: Jul 17, 2014
Mulligan
as Matty Mulligan (voice)
Episodes: 20
First Aired: May 12, 2023
Loot
as Arthur
Episodes: 20
First Aired: Jun 23, 2022
Frog and Toad
as Frog (voice)
Episodes: 18
First Aired: Apr 27, 2023
Grosse Pointe
as Kevin 'The P.A.'
Episodes: 17
First Aired: Sep 22, 2000
Friends from College
as Nick
Episodes: 16
First Aired: Jul 14, 2017
The Conners
as Neville
Episodes: 15
First Aired: Oct 16, 2018
Ben and Kate
as Ben Fox
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Sep 25, 2012
Our Flag Means Death
as The Swede
Episodes: 11
First Aired: Mar 03, 2022
Marvel's Hit-Monkey
as Boone
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Nov 17, 2021
Allen Gregory
as Jeremy De Longpre
Episodes: 7
First Aired: Oct 30, 2011
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jul 10, 2020
Reno 911!
as Milk Shake
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Jul 23, 2003
A League of Their Own
as Marshall
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Aug 11, 2022
Gaslit
as Bob Haldeman
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Apr 24, 2022
Joey
as Bodie
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 08, 2004
American Dad!
as (voice)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 06, 2005
The Great North
as Calvin Prescott (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 2021
NCIS
as Carter Finch
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 2003
Reno 911!
as Head Shop Clerk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 23, 2003
Benched
as Harold
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 28, 2014
Family Guy
as Coach Herrera (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
as Water Park Employee (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
as (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 1999
Comedy Bang! Bang!
as Earl or Crathmore
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 08, 2012
Tacoma FD
as Frenchie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 25, 2019
Great News
as Anthony Lyon
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 25, 2017
Speechless
as Undercover Boss
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 2016
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
as Pharaoh (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 13, 2018
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
as Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 10, 2020
The Guest Book
as Derek
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 03, 2017
Up All Night
as Lawrence
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 14, 2011
Summer Camp Island
as Popular Banana Split (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 07, 2018
Life in Pieces
as Hayes
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 2015
My Name Is Earl
as Kenny's Boyfriend
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 2005
black-ish
as Joseph Everton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 2014
Party Down
as Garlan Greenbush
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 20, 2009
Mad Men
as Flatty
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 19, 2007
Family Guy
as Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 31, 1999
Happy Endings
as Chef Leslie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 13, 2011
Euphoria
as Rick
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 16, 2019
Marry Me
as Scooby
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 14, 2014
The Grinder
as Lyle Gerhart
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 2015
BULLDOZER
as Steve
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 28, 2025
Robot Chicken
as Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 20, 2005
Happy Hour
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Sep 07, 2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 03, 2005
The Great American Baking Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 05, 2023
After Midnight
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 17, 2024
Grosse Pointe
Episodes: 0
First Aired: Sep 22, 2000
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