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-).
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers
Character:Capt. Todd Markowski
Release Date:06/08/2026
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Character:Pickle
Release Date:01/01/2025
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Character:Joe
Release Date:01/01/2025
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Character:Toy Store Clerk
Release Date:01/01/2025
The Trainer
Character:Nat Faxon
Release Date:20/10/2024
Orion and the Dark
Character:Insomnia (voice)
Release Date:01/02/2024
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
Character:Self - Contestant
Release Date:02/12/2022
The Moon and Back
Character:Peter Gilbert
Release Date:07/10/2022
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Character:Jim Hartson (voice)
Release Date:23/06/2022
YES DAY
Character:Mr. Deacon
Release Date:11/03/2021
Bird & Squirrel
Character:Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
Release Date:18/02/2021
Captain Underpants Mega Blissmas
Character:Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Release Date:03/12/2020
Captain Underpants Epic Choice-o-Rama
Character:Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
Release Date:10/02/2020
Charlie's Angels
Character:Peter Fleming
Release Date:14/11/2019
The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants Hack-a-ween
Character:Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Release Date:07/10/2019
Ready or Not
Character:Justin (voice)
Release Date:21/08/2019
Father of the Year
Character:Mardy
Release Date:20/07/2018
Life of the Party
Character:Lance
Release Date:10/05/2018
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
Character:Paramedic #2
Release Date:05/05/2017
Operator
Character:Gregg
Release Date:14/10/2016
Sex Tape
Character:Max
Release Date:17/07/2014
Tammy
Character:Greg
Release Date:02/07/2014
The Way Way Back
Character:Roddy
Release Date:06/06/2013
Freeloaders
Character:Fritz
Release Date:18/12/2012
The Babymakers
Character:Zig-Zag
Release Date:03/08/2012
Zookeeper
Character:Dave
Release Date:06/07/2011
Bad Teacher
Character:Mark
Release Date:16/05/2011
The Slammin' Salmon
Character:Carl the Manager
Release Date:11/12/2009
Lower Learning
Character:Turner Abernathy
Release Date:10/10/2008
Hamlet 2
Character:Glenn from Copy Shop
Release Date:21/01/2008
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Character:Awards Show Stage Manager
Release Date:21/12/2007
The TV Set
Character:Reporter
Release Date:06/04/2007
Beerfest
Character:Rolf
Release Date:25/08/2006
Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
Character:Chad
Release Date:30/05/2005
Club Dread
Character:Manny
Release Date:27/02/2004
Slackers
Character:Karl, the Grad Student
Release Date:01/02/2002
Orange County
Character:Kip
Release Date:11/01/2002
The Medicine Show
Character:Delivery Guy
Release Date:10/10/2001
Television Appearances
BULLDOZER
Character:Steve
Watson
Character:Hobie McSorley
After Midnight
Character:Self
Mulligan
Character:Matty Mulligan (voice)
Frog and Toad
Character:Frog (voice)
A League of Their Own
Character:Marshall
Loot
Character:Arthur
Gaslit
Character:Bob Haldeman
Our Flag Means Death
Character:The Swede
Marvel's Hit-Monkey
Character:Boone
Ghosts
Character:Alexander Hamilton
HouseBroken
Character:Chief (voice)
The Great North
Character:Calvin Prescott (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
Character:Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
Character:Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice)
Solar Opposites
Character:Bryson (voice)
Euphoria
Character:Rick
Tacoma FD
Character:Frenchie
Love, Death & Robots
Character:Waffle Maker (voice)
The Conners
Character:Neville
Disenchantment
Character:Elfo (voice)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Character:Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Summer Camp Island
Character:Popular Banana Split (voice)
The Guest Book
Character:Derek
Friends from College
Character:Nick
Great News
Character:Anthony Lyon
Speechless
Character:Undercover Boss
The Grinder
Character:Lyle Gerhart
Life in Pieces
Character:Hayes
Benched
Character:Harold
Marry Me
Character:Scooby
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Character:Pickle
black-ish
Character:Joseph Everton
Married
Character:Russ Bowman
Ben and Kate
Character:Ben Fox
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Character:Earl or Crathmore
Allen Gregory
Character:Jeremy De Longpre
Up All Night
Character:Lawrence
Happy Endings
Character:Chef Leslie
The Cleveland Show
Character:Apologetic Janitor (voice)
Party Down
Character:Garlan Greenbush
Mad Men
Character:Flatty
Happy Hour
Character:
My Name Is Earl
Character:Kenny's Boyfriend
Robot Chicken
Character:Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice)
American Dad!
Character:(voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character:Self
Joey
Character:Bodie
NCIS
Character:Carter Finch
Reno 911!
Character:Milk Shake
Reno 911!
Character:Head Shop Clerk
Reba
Character:Elder Care Worker
Grosse Pointe
Character:Kevin 'The P.A.'
Family Guy
Character:Coach Herrera (voice)
Family Guy
Character:Water Park Employee (voice)
Family Guy
Character:(voice)
Family Guy
Character:Jet Li's Nemesis (voice)
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