Nat Faxon
Born
October 11, 1975 (49 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.

Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Pickle
2025

Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Joe
2025

Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
Toy Store Clerk
2025

The Trainer
Nat Faxon
2024

Orion and the Dark
Insomnia (voice)
2024

Mulligan
Matty Mulligan (voice) · (20 episodes)
2023

The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
Self - Contestant
2022

The Moon and Back
Peter Gilbert
2022

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Jim Hartson (voice)
2022

HouseBroken
Chief (voice) · (30 episodes)
2021

YES DAY
Mr. Deacon
2021

Bird & Squirrel
Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
2021

The Great North
Calvin Prescott (voice) · (1 episode)
2021

Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2020

Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
2020

Charlie's Angels
Peter Fleming
2019

The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
2019

Ready or Not
Justin (voice)
2019

The Conners
Neville · (15 episodes)
2018

Father of the Year
Mardy
2018

Life of the Party
Lance
2018

A Happening of Monumental Proportions
Paramedic #2
2017

Operator
Gregg
2016

Sex Tape
Max
2014

Tammy
Greg
2014

The Way Way Back
Roddy
2013

Freeloaders
Fritz
2012

Ben and Kate
Ben Fox · (13 episodes)
2012

The Babymakers
Zig-Zag
2012

Zookeeper
Dave
2011

Bad Teacher
Mark
2011

The Slammin' Salmon
Carl the Manager
2009

Lower Learning
Turner Abernathy
2008

Hamlet 2
Glenn from Copy Shop
2008

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Awards Show Stage Manager
2007

The TV Set
Reporter
2007

Happy Hour
(13 episodes)
2006

Beerfest
Rolf
2006

Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
Chad
2005

Club Dread
Manny
2004

NCIS
Carter Finch · (1 episode)
2003

Reno 911!
Milk Shake · (5 episodes)
2003

Reno 911!
Head Shop Clerk · (1 episode)
2003

Slackers
Karl, the Grad Student
2002

Orange County
Kip
2002

The Medicine Show
Delivery Guy
2001
Mermaid
Bill
BULLDOZER
Steve · (1 episode)
2025

Watson
Hobie McSorley · (1 episode)
2025

After Midnight
Self · (1 episode)
2024

Frog and Toad
Frog (voice) · (18 episodes)
2023

A League of Their Own
Marshall · (4 episodes)
2022

Loot
Arthur · (20 episodes)
2022

Gaslit
Bob Haldeman · (3 episodes)
2022

Our Flag Means Death
The Swede · (11 episodes)
2022

Marvel's Hit-Monkey
Boone · (8 episodes)
2021

Ghosts
Alexander Hamilton · (1 episode)
2021

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) · (6 episodes)
2020

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space
Captain Pandernuts / Purpk (voice) · (1 episode)
2020

Solar Opposites
Bryson (voice) · (1 episode)
2020

Euphoria
Rick · (1 episode)
2019

Tacoma FD
Frenchie · (1 episode)
2019

Love, Death & Robots
Waffle Maker (voice) · (1 episode)
2019

Disenchantment
Elfo (voice) · (50 episodes)
2018

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Pharaoh (voice) · (1 episode)
2018

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice) · (39 episodes)
2018

Summer Camp Island
Popular Banana Split (voice) · (1 episode)
2018

The Guest Book
Derek · (1 episode)
2017

Friends from College
Nick · (16 episodes)
2017

Great News
Anthony Lyon · (1 episode)
2017

Speechless
Undercover Boss · (1 episode)
2016

The Grinder
Lyle Gerhart · (1 episode)
2015

Life in Pieces
Hayes · (1 episode)
2015

Benched
Harold · (1 episode)
2014

Marry Me
Scooby · (1 episode)
2014

Blaze and the Monster Machines
Pickle · (165 episodes)
2014

black-ish
Joseph Everton · (1 episode)
2014

Married
Russ Bowman · (23 episodes)
2014

Comedy Bang! Bang!
Earl or Crathmore · (1 episode)
2012

Allen Gregory
Jeremy De Longpre · (7 episodes)
2011

Up All Night
Lawrence · (1 episode)
2011

Happy Endings
Chef Leslie · (1 episode)
2011

Party Down
Garlan Greenbush · (1 episode)
2009

Mad Men
Flatty · (1 episode)
2007

My Name Is Earl
Kenny's Boyfriend · (1 episode)
2005

Robot Chicken
Darkwing Duck / Poe Dameron (voice) · (1 episode)
2005

American Dad!
(voice) · (2 episodes)
2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · (1 episode)
2005

Joey
Bodie · (3 episodes)
2004

Grosse Pointe
Kevin 'The P.A.' · (17 episodes)
2000

Family Guy
Coach Herrera (voice) · (1 episode)
1999

Family Guy
Water Park Employee (voice) · (1 episode)
1999

Family Guy
(voice) · (1 episode)
1999

Family Guy
Jet Li's Nemesis (voice) · (1 episode)
1999