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

Background

Shepard was born in Milford, Michigan, and attended Muir Junior High and Walled Lake Central High School, before enrolling in The Groundlings school. He later received a degree in anthropology at UCLA. According to Shepard, his mother named him for the protagonist in Harold Robbins’ novel The Adventurers.

Career

Shepard was an actor on Punk’d with Ashton Kutcher. In 2006, Shepard appeared opposite Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson in the comedy Employee of the Month as well as the Mike Judge film Idiocracy. During the same time, Shepard began appearing in more films and landed his first main character role in Let’s Go to Prison, alongside Will Arnett. 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 with Arnett. He was also in the 2010 movie When in Rome. He is now one of the main characters in the NBC show Parenthood, playing Crosby Braverman.

Personal life

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

He has been dating Kristen Bell since 2007. As of January 2010, he and Bell are engaged.

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.

1) Dax’s favorite TV shows are Curb Your Enthusiasm, House, News Radio, Northern Exposure and Sopranos.

2) Some of Dax’s favorite movies are Thief, Fletch, Raising Arizona, Bottle Rocket and Flirting With Disaster.

3) Dax has his own Myspace account.

4) He starred in the 2006 movie Idiocracy.

5) On October 9, 2006, He was the guest host on the radio talkshow Loveline.

6) He has starred in the 2004 movie Without A Paddle and the 2006 movie Let’s Go to Prison.

7) The first film Dax was in was Hairshirt.

8 ) Dax starred in Employee of the Month alongside Dane Cook.

9) He graduated college from UCLA.

10) Dax is 6 ft. 2 in. tall.

11) He went to Walled Lake Central High School in Walled Lake, Michigan.

12) He is the cousin of actor Jason Shepard.

13) He can be seen in the Jon Favreau sci-fi fantasy flick, Zathura, in which he plays The Astronaut.

1) Dax: I’ve had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I’ve ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It’s my life.

2) Dax Shepard: I do attribute my success to Punk’d. The opportunity to improv helped a lot to showcase my exact sense of humor. It usually takes other comedic actors a long time to show what they can do because they have to work with other people’s scripts. But on Punk’d my options were wide open and I was free to do my own thing.