Nat Faxon

Nat Faxon is my favorite kind of creative: someone who can make you laugh and out-write the room at the same time. A Boston-born comic actor familiar from countless films and TV shows, he also walked off with an Academy Award for co-writing The Descendants. That contrast fascinates me, because comedians rarely get taken seriously at the prestige end of the awards circuit. The fact that he can act on set and shape the story on the page tells me he understands narrative rhythm in his bones. Versatile talents like Faxon, who can clown and craft with equal skill, are the ones I find myself rooting for the hardest.

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Name (English)

Nat Faxon

Name (Japanese)

ナット・ファクソン

Reading

なっと・ふぁくそん

Born

October 11, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / film producer / comedian / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rabbit

University

Hamilton College

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

• Official sitehttp://faxonrash.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/natfaxon
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat%20Faxon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2514422

Tags

• Massachusetts
• actor
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.