Dax Shepard

Dax Shepard (Dax Randall Shepard, born January 2, 1975) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker and podcast host. Since 2018 he has hosted the podcast Armchair Expert, in which he talks with celebrities, journalists and academics about their lives.

He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, grew up mainly in the suburbs of Detroit and finished high school in 1993. He later attended UCLA while taking improvisation and sketch comedy classes with The Groundlings, and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in anthropology.

In 2003 he appeared in the MTV practical joke reality series Punk'd. His films include Without a Paddle (2004), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Employee of the Month (2006), Idiocracy (2006), Let's Go to Prison (2006), Hit and Run (2012) and CHiPs (2017), the last two of which he also wrote and directed. On television he played Crosby Braverman in the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood from 2010 to 2015, played Luke Matthews in the Netflix series The Ranch, and co-starred in the ABC comedy Bless This Mess.

He married actress Kristen Bell in 2013, and the two co-founded the diaper and baby product company Hello Bello.