Dax Shepard

Dax Shepard

Dax Randall Shepard is an American actor. He played Crosby Braverman in the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood from 2010 to 2015. He also played Luke Matthews in the Netflix show The Ranch. Since 2018, he has hosted Armchair Expert, a podcast that interviews celebrities, journalists, and academics about their lives.

About Dax Shepard in brief

Summary Dax ShepardDax Randall Shepard is an American actor. He played Crosby Braverman in the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood from 2010 to 2015. He also played Luke Matthews in the Netflix show The Ranch, co-starred in ABC’s Bless This Mess,and acted in the MTV practical joke reality series Punk’d. Since 2018, he has hosted Armchair Expert, a podcast that interviews celebrities, journalists, and academics about their lives. Shepard is best known for his work in the feature films Without a Paddle, Zathura: A Space Adventure, Employee of the Month, Idiocracy, Let’s Go to Prison, Hit and Run, and CHiPs, the last pair of which he also wrote and directed. He is the son of Laura LaBo, who worked at General Motors, and David Robert \”Dave\” Shepard, Sr. , who was a car salesman. His parents divorced when he was 3 years old.

He has an older brother, David Shepard, who lives in Oregon, and a younger half-sister, Carly Hatter, whom he cast in two films: 2012’s Hit and run and 2017’s CHips. He had a deal with his mother that if he went to college she would pay his rent. Shepard has said that he was raised in Milford, although he lived in a lot of places in suburban Detroit, growing up primarily in Walled Lake, Michigan. He found out about The Groundlings improv troupe from a friend from Santa Barbara, Kareem Elseify, ended up auditioning, and took classes while also attending UCLA. After attending Santa Monica College and West Los Angeles College, Shepard transferred to UCLA, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B. A. in Anthropology.