Nat Faxon

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.

Most Known For

Family Guy

as Coach Herrera (voice)

Family Guy

as Water Park Employee (voice)

Family Guy

as (voice)

Family Guy

as Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)

NCIS

as Carter Finch

American Dad!

as (voice)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self

Euphoria

as Rick

Mad Men

as Flatty

Love, Death & Robots

as Waffle Maker (voice)

Ghosts

as Alexander Hamilton

Robot Chicken

as Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice)

black-ish

as Joseph Everton

Solar Opposites

as Bryson (voice)

After Midnight

as Self

My Name Is Earl

as Kenny's Boyfriend

Disenchantment

as Elfo (voice)

Reno 911!

as Milk Shake

Reno 911!

as Head Shop Clerk

Life in Pieces

as Hayes