About
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...
Known for
NCISSeries • 2003
Family GuySeries • 1999
American Dad!Series • 2005
FuturamaSeries • 1999
Mad MenSeries • 2007
CommunitySeries • 2009
Robot ChickenSeries • 2005
EuphoriaSeries • 2019
GhostsSeries • 2021
My Name Is EarlSeries • 2005
black-ishSeries • 2014
Reno 911!Series • 2003
Summer Camp IslandSeries • 2018
Solar OppositesSeries • 2020
Love, Death & RobotsSeries • 2019
Blaze and the Monster MachinesSeries • 2014
The ConnersSeries • 2018
The Great NorthSeries • 2021
The Cleveland ShowSeries • 2009
Life in PiecesSeries • 2015
RebaSeries • 2001
Happy EndingsSeries • 2011
DisenchantmentSeries • 2018
President CurtisSeries • 2026