Nicholas Stoller

Filmmaker Nicholas Stoller’s work is smart, clever, and bittersweet; he is a filmmaker whose comedy is so real that the characters could be your friends and neighbors.

Stoller’s directorial debut, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, is an outrageous comedy starring Jason Segel, Mila Kunis, Jonah Hill, Kristen Bell, Bill Hader and Russell Brand. Segel plays a staid musician who gets his heart broken by Bell and decides to take a tropical holiday to forget her. He arrives in Hawaii only to find his ex is staying at the same resort with her new, super-cool rock star boyfriend. It's the ultimate romantic disaster comedy. The film was produced by Apatow Productions and will be released by Universal on April 18, 2008.

Next for Stoller is FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT, which he will direct and write with Jason Segel, who will also star. Apatow Productions will return to produce the picture, which is about the ups and downs of a man’s five year engagement with his fiancée.

Stoller will reteam with Jason Segel to write the newest Muppet movie for Disney.

Stoller cut his teeth in comedy writing for Judd Apatow's celebrated Fox television series “Undeclared.” Segel and Stoller met during the run of the show and hit it off upon discovering a shared love for painful, heart-wrenching comedy.

He made the transition to screenwriting doing rewrites on numerous projects and co-writing, with Apatow, the Jim Carrey vehicle FUN WITH DICK AND JANE. His current writing endeavor, YES MEN, is currently in post-production at Warner Bros. with Carrey set to star. The film is being produced by acclaimed producers Richard Zanuck and David Heyman.

Stoller, a Harvard alumnus who wrote for the Lampoon, was born in London, England and raised in Miami. Stoller currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Francesca and their daughter Penelope.