Nat Faxon
Biography
Nat Faxon is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter who was born in Boston and grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. He started performing with the Los Angeles improv and sketch troupe The Groundlings in 2001 and became a frequent presence in comedies, among them Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), as well as Broken Lizard films and television shows such as Joey and Reno 911!. He starred in the Fox sitcom Ben and Kate and the FX comedy Married, and voiced Elfo in the Netflix animated series Disenchantment. With his writing partner Jim Rash, he shared an Academy Award for the adapted screenplay of The Descendants, and the two co-wrote and co-directed The Way Way Back (2013) and Downhill. He has played Neville Goldufski on The Conners since 2020.
51years old
Turns 52 on October 11in 334 days
- Born Boston
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Nathaniel Faxon
Movie Career
- Films
- 20
- Career span
- 24 years2002 to 2026
Genres
First and latest
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Behind the camera
Faxon and Jim Rash co-wrote the screenplay for The Way, Way Back, which served as their first directing project. The film, starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Sam Rockwell, premiered at Sundance, where Fox Searchlight Pictures bought it for $10 million.
Early training
Faxon is an alumnus of The Groundlings, the improvisational and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, and he started performing there in 2001.
Nat Faxon movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jay Chandrasekhar directed three of these films, Jake Kasdan two. Two actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Kevin Heffernan's page
Jay Chandrasekhar's page
Allison Janney's page
Rob Corddry's page
Paul Soter's page
Steve Lemme's page
All films by Jake Kasdan
Also three films together2 more actors
- Erik StolhanskeSuper Troopers 3 (2026), The Slammin' Salmon (2009) and Club Dread (2004)
- Michael YurchakThe Babymakers (2012), The Slammin' Salmon (2009) and Club Dread (2004)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Nat Faxon's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$528 million
10 of the 19 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 19 films: 10 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 4 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 4Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$170M32.2% of the total
- 2$126M23.9% of the total
- 3$100M19.0% of the total
- 4$73M13.9% of the total
- 5$23M4.4% of the total
- 6$18M3.5% of the total
- 7$6.4M1.2% of the total
- 8$5.0M0.9% of the total
$4.9 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
Awards
One award and honor, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | |||
| 2012 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | The Descendants | Won |
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.