Nat Faxon

Nat Faxon
Faxon at the series premieres of You're the Worst and Married in July 2014
Born	(1975-10-11) October 11, 1975 Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	Actor, comedian, screenwriter
Years active	1999–present
Spouse(s)	Meaghan Gadd
Children	3

Nathaniel "Nat" Faxon (born October 11, 1975) is an American actor, comedian and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Though a frequent presence on comedic films and TV series, he is best known for winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants (2011) and for his starring roles in the FOX comedy series Ben and Kate (2012-2013) and the FX comedy series Married (2014-2015). He also co-wrote and co-directed the acclaimed The Way, Way Back (2013) with writing partner Jim Rash.

Early life

Faxon's early years started in the seaside community of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, where he attended the Brookwood School. He later graduated from the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire and then Hamilton College in 1997.

Career

Acting

Faxon is an alumnus of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings, where he began performing in 2001.^[1]

Faxon may be best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Bad Teacher (2011), and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest (2006). 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!.

Faxon 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 was cast as the titular Ben in Ben and Kate,^[2] for which he received many positive reviews. Faxon starred alongside Judy Greer in the FX comedy series Married, which ran for two seasons.

Writing and directing

Faxon and writing partner Jim Rash, whom he met while performing at The Groundlings, co-wrote the screenplay for the film The Descendants, starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne. On February 26, 2012, the screenplay for The Descendants won an Oscar, with Faxon, Rash, and Payne all receiving Oscars for their efforts.^[3] The duo made their directorial debut with The Way, Way Back (2013), based on their original screenplay, and starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette, and Sam Rockwell, among others.^[4] The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired it for $10 million,^[5] and was released domestically to acclaimed reviews that July.

Personal life

Faxon is married to Meaghan Gadd and they have three children: Ruthie, Otis and Beatrice.^[6]

Work

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Orange County	Kip
2002	Slackers	Karl, the Grad Student
2004	Club Dread	Manny
2006	The TV Set	Reporter
2006	Beerfest	Rolf
2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	Awards Show Stage Manager
2008	Hamlet 2	Glenn from Copy Shop
2008	Lower Learning	Turner Abernathy
2009	The Slammin' Salmon	Carl the Manager
2011	Freeloaders	Fritz
	Bad Teacher	Mark
	Zookeeper	Dave
	The Descendants		co-screenwriter only; Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2012	The Babymakers	Zig-Zag
2013	The Way, Way Back	Roddy	also co-screenwriter and co-director
2014	Tammy	Greg
2014	Sex Tape	Max
2016	Operator

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Rude Awakening	Slackula	1 episode
2000–2001	Grosse Pointe	Kevin the P.A.	17 episodes
2003–2004	Reno 911!	Milk Shake et al.	6 episodes
2004	Significant Others	Breck	1 episode
2004–2005	Joey	Bodie	3 episodes
2005	Romy and Michele: In the Beginning	Chad	TV movie
	NCIS	Carter Finch	1 episode
	Reba	Elder Care Worker	1 episode
2005–2009	American Dad!	various (voice)	3 episodes
2006–2008	Happy Hour	Brad Cooper	14 episodes
2008	Mad Men	Flatty	1 episode
2009	DJ & the Fro	The Fro et al. (voice)	12 episodes
	Glen Martin DDS	Trailer Park Teen (voice)	1 episode
	The Big D	Brady	pilot
	The Burr Effect	Dale	pilot
2009–2012	The Cleveland Show	Raymond the Bear et al. (voice)	10 episodes
2010	Party Down	Garlan Greenbush	1 episode
2011	Allen Gregory	Jeremy (voice)	7 episodes
2011	Happy Endings	Chef Leslie	1 episode
2012	Are You There, Chelsea?	Tim Kornick	1 episode
2012	Up All Night	Lawrence	1 episode
2012–2013	Ben and Kate	Ben Fox	Series lead, 16 episodes
2013	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Earl of Crathmore	1 episode
	Trophy Wife	Sad Steve	3 episodes
	Spy	Alan	pilot
2014–2015	Married	Russ Bowman	Lead role
2014	Marry Me	Scooby	1 episode
2014–2016	Blaze and the Monster Machines	Pickle	Voice
2015	Community		Director, 2 episodes
2015	The Grinder	Lyle	Episode: "Little Mitchard No More"
TBA	Friends From College

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Title of work	Result
2011	Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2011	Toronto Film Critics Association Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	Satellite Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2011	San Diego Film Critics Society Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2011	Florida Film Critics Circle Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2011	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2011	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	National Board of Review	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2012	Writers Guild of America	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2012	Vancouver Film Critics Circle	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	USC Scripter Award	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2012	Online Film Critics Society Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	London Critics Circle Film Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	Independent Spirit Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2012	Golden Globe	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	Central Ohio Film Critics Association	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	BAFTA Awards	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	Australian Film Institute	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	Academy Award	Adapted Screenplay	The Descendants	Won
2013	Newport Beach Film Festival Audience Award	Feature Film	The Way Way Back	Won
2013	Filmfest Hamburg	Art Cinema Award	The Way Way Back	Nominated
2014	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association	Best Comedy	The Way Way Back	Nominated
2014	Critics' Choice Movie Awards^[7]	Best Comedy	The Way Way Back	Nominated

References

↑ Faxon at Groundlings.com
↑ Adams, Erik (25 September 2012). "Nat Faxon ascends to leading man on Ben And Kate". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
↑ Goldberg, Lesley (28 February 2012). "Descendents Oscar Winner to Star in Fox Comedy Pilot". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
↑ Itzkoff, Dave (24 August 2012). "The Writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash Direct The Way, Way Back". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
↑ "The Way, Way Back". Sundance Institute. Archived from the original on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
↑ "Biography of Nat Faxon". FaxonRash.com.
↑ "19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards Nominations". CriticsChoice.com. The Broadcast Films Critics Association. 16 December 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2013.

External links

Nat Faxon at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1928–1940	Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Joseph W. Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, and Lennox Robinson (1930) Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)

1941–1960	Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch (1943) Frank Butler, and Frank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956) Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks (1960)

1961–1980	Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben (1975) William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980)

1981–2000	Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000)

2001–present	Akiva Goldsman (2001) Ronald Harwood (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) William Monahan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Graham Moore (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)

Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay

1985–1999	Horton Foote (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Neal Jimenez (1987) Ramon Menendez and Tom Musca (1988) Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989) Charles Burnett (1990) Gus Van Sant (1991) Neal Jimenez (1992) Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt (1993) Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994) Christopher McQuarrie (1995) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996) Kevin Smith (1997) Don Roos (1998) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)

2000–2020	Kenneth Lonergan (2000) Christopher Nolan (2001) Mike White (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Dan Futterman (2005) Jason Reitman (2006) Tamara Jenkins (2007) Woody Allen (2008) Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2009) Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko (2010) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011) David O. Russell (2012) John Ridley (2013) Dan Gilroy (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)

Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Anthony Minghella (1996)
Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
Bill Condon (1998)
John Irving (1999)
Doug Wright (2000)
Robert Festinger and Todd Field (2001)
Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
Brian Helgeland (2003)
Paul Haggis (2004)
Robin Swicord (2005)
William Monahan (2006)
Christopher Hampton (2007)
Peter Morgan (2008)
Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011)
David Magee (2012)
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
Graham Moore (2014)
Aaron Sorkin (2015)

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