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- Birth nameNathaniel Wales Faxon
- Nathaniel Wales Faxon was born on October 11, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent his childhood living in the seaside community of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. He joined the Brookwood School while in Boston, and then attended the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire; he also graduated from same school. He was famous for his comedy within his friends.
In 1997, he attended Hamilton College, and in 2001, began performing with the renowned Improv comedy troupe The Groundlings. In 2002 he appeared in comedy film Orange County, and has showed his potential in other movies like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Bad Teacher. His biggest hit films include The Descendants and The Way Way Back, for which he was nominated for various awards. He has won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Descendants, and a Newport Beach Film Festival Audience Award for The Way Way Back.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ali22338
- SpouseMeaghan Gadd(February 3, 2007 - ?) (1 child)
- ChildrenOtis FaxonBeatrice FaxonRuthie Faxon
- At the 2012 Academy Awards, Faxon shared the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with Alexander Payne(I) and Jim Rash for "The Descendants". Their screenplay had been circulating in Hollywood for several years and in 2008 had been featured on "The Black List" of well-liked but as yet unproduced scripts as recognized by Hollywood executives.
- From Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.
- Married Meaghan Gadd on February 3, 2007. She is the daughter of well-known drummer Steve Gadd.
- Works as a "Groundling" at the improvisational comedy club of the same name in Los Angeles, California.
- Nat's father is from a family with deep roots in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and is of English descent. Nat's maternal grandparents were German Jewish emigrants, from Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt and Hamburg-Altona, respectively.
- 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.
- Ben and Kate (2012) - $65,000 per episode (2012-2013)
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