Nat Faxon
Nat Faxon
Nathaniel "Nat" Faxonis 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 Descendantsand for his starring roles in the FOX comedy series Ben and Kateand the FX comedy series Married. He also co-wrote and co-directed the acclaimed The Way, Way Backwith writing partner Jim Rash...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth11 October 1975
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.