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 be...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
2025
as Pickle
When villains unleash chaos on Axle City, who can the monster machines turn to for help? Super Wheels Blaze! Blaze and friends transform into big-whee...

Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
2025
as Joe
When villains unleash chaos on Axle City, who can the monster machines turn to for help? Super Wheels Blaze! Blaze and friends transform into big-whee...

Blaze and the Monster Machines: Super Wheels
2025
as Toy Store Clerk
When villains unleash chaos on Axle City, who can the monster machines turn to for help? Super Wheels Blaze! Blaze and friends transform into big-whee...

The Trainer
2024
as Nat Faxon
Jack Flex, a penniless, muscle-bound "creative genius" who maniacally pursues his dream of appearing on his mother's favorite home shopping channel to...

Orion and the Dark
2024
as Insomnia (voice)
A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Da...

The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday
2022
as Self - Contestant
Six celebrities, 3 holiday-themed challenges, with Baking Show judges and hosts in one iconic tent. Will these celebs do enough to impress… and avoid ...

The Moon and Back
2022
as Peter Gilbert
One year after her father's death, a high school senior discovers the epic screenplay for a terrible space opera — written by her dad. Equipped with j...

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022
as Jim Hartson (voice)
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on...

YES DAY
2021
as Mr. Deacon
A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure...

Bird & Squirrel
2021
as Bird / Raccoon / Frog (voice)
Squirrel is just nuts about his new bike – even though he’s not only never ridden it, he has hesitations. Can Bird help his pal break out of his shell...

Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas
2020
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
Christmas gets weird - really weird - after George and Harold go back in time to change up a few of their beloved holiday's traditions.

Captain Underpants: Epic Choice-o-rama
2020
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp / Buffalobe (voice)
In this interactive special, Harold and George need your decision-making skills to stop Krupp from blowing their beloved treehouse to smithereens.

Downhill
2020
Director, Screenplay
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their...

Charlie's Angels
2019
as Peter Fleming
Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It wi...

The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-ween
2019
as Captain Underpants / Mr. Krupp (voice)
When Melvin tries to cancel Halloween, clever best friends Harold and George create their own spooky holiday -- and it's a huge success!

Ready or Not
2019
as Justin (voice)
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

Father of the Year
2018
as Mardy
Two college grads return to their hometown, where a hypothetical question -- whose dad would win in a fight? -- leads to mass mayhem.

Life of the Party
2018
as Lance
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same clas...

Thoroughbreds
2018
Producer
Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, ...

A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
as Paramedic #2
During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.

Operator
2016
as Gregg
Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Emily, a budding comedy performer, are happily married until they decide to use one another in th...

Sex Tape
2014
as Max
When Jay and Annie first got together, their romantic connection was intense – but ten years and two kids later, the flame of their love needs a spark...

Tammy
2014
as Greg
For Tammy, a burger-joint employee, a bad day keeps getting worse. She wrecks her car, loses her job, and finds that her husband has been unfaithful. ...

The Way Way Back
2013
as Roddy
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting i...

The Way Way Back
2013
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting i...

Freeloaders
2012
as Fritz
Slackers who live for free in a rock star's mansion find that their ride on the gravy train is coming to an end with the sale of their pal's residence...

The Babymakers
2012
as Zig-Zag
After he flunks a fertility test, a man realizes that the only way he can get his wife pregnant is by robbing a sperm bank to take back the last of th...

The Descendants
2011
Screenplay
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to co...

Zookeeper
2011
as Dave
Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but he's more comfortable with the animals than with females o...

Bad Teacher
2011
as Mark
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after ...

The Slammin' Salmon
2009
as Carl the Manager
The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which...

Lower Learning
2008
as Turner Abernathy
Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school gro...

Hamlet 2
2008
as Glenn from Copy Shop
Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical ...

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
as Awards Show Stage Manager
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addict...

The TV Set
2007
as Reporter
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network e...

Beerfest
2006
as Rolf
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing...

Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
2005
as Chad
It's 1987, and best friends Romy and Michele, fresh out of high school, are desperate to get away from their square hometown of Tucson and take their ...

Club Dread
2004
as Manny
When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort -- a hedonistic island paradise for swingers --- it's up to ...

Slackers
2002
as Karl, the Grad Student
Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed ...

Orange County
2002
as Kip
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional famil...

The Medicine Show
2001
as Delivery Guy
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and w...
Mermaid
N/A
as Bill
A 10-year-old boy yearning to become a mermaid meets a struggling drag queen consumed by grief. Their unexpected bond grows so strong they'll put ever...
Miss You, Love You
N/A
Producer
With her husband's funeral to plan and grieving to be done, a woman reaches out to her estranged son. He refuses to come home, choosing instead to sen...
The Heart
N/A
Director
A couple who, while desperate for cash, agree to take the job of delivering a human heart from New York to Florida in 24 hours. When they realize that...
Team Hoyt
N/A
Director
Based on the incredible true story of Dick Hoyt, who turned himself into a triathlete and marathoner so he could lug with him son Rick—a non-verbal qu...