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Dax Shepard
Shepard at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City
Born	Dax Randall Shepard January 2, 1975 (1975-01-02) (age 35) Milford, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present

Dax Randall Shepard (born January 2, 1975) is an American actor.

Background

Shepard was born in Milford, Michigan, and attended Milford Middle School and Walled Lake Central High School, before enrolling in The Groundlings school. He later received a degree in anthropology at UCLA.

Career

In 2006, Shepard appeared opposite Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson in the comedy Employee of the Month. During the same time, Shepard began appearing in more film roles, and starred his first main character role in Let's Go to Prison. He also had a major role in Baby Mama. Shepard wrote the script for the Paramount venture Get 'em Wet, in which he again appeared opposite Arnett.^[1]

Personal life

Shepard races motorcycles at Buttonwillow Raceway, including his Ducati Hypermotard 1100S and Suzuki GSX-R1000.^[2]

He has been dating Kristen Bell since 2007.^[3] As of February 2010, he and Bell are engaged. ^[4]

Shepard donates much of his time to the Hollenbeck Youth Center, an after-school program that provides opportunity to at-risk inner-city youth. He has served as their official Master of Ceremonies, along with his friend Tom Arnold, for the Inner-City Games and Hollenbeck Youth Center's Miracle on 1st Street Toy Giveaway Program in East Los Angeles.^{[5] [6]}

Filmography

• Hairshirt (1998) as bit part
• Punk'd (TV Series) (2003) as Ashton Kutcher's minion (field agent)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) as Camera Crew Member
• Without a Paddle (2004) as Tom Marshall
• Sledge: The Untold Story (2005) as SFX Coordinator
• Zathura (2005) as older Walter
• My Name is Earl (TV series) (2005)
• Employee of the Month (2006) as Vince Downey
• Idiocracy (2006) as Frito Pendejo
• Let's Go to Prison (2006) as John Lyshitski
• King of the Hill (TV series) (2006)
• The Comebacks (2007) as the hometown Sheriff
• Baby Mama (2008) as Carl
• Smother (2008) as Noah Cooper
• Confessions of an Action Star (2008) as Bucky
• Boobies in Space (2008) as Joey the Plumber in Space
• Old Dogs (2009) as Trent Rice
• Robot Chicken (2009) various voices
• Parenthood (TV series) (2010) as Crosby
• When in Rome (2010) as Gale

References

External links

• Dax Shepard at the Internet Movie Database
• Dax in the video game Bighouse Beatdown