Dax Shepard

Dax Shepard
Shepard at PaleyFest 2013 in Los Angeles
Born	Dax Randall Shepard (1975-01-02) January 2, 1975 (age 42) Highland, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Walled Lake Central High School
Alma mater	UCLA
Occupation	Actor, comedian, writer, director
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Kristen Bell (m. 2013)
Children	2

Dax Randall Shepard (born January 2, 1975) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He is best known for his work in the feature films Employee of the Month (2006), Without a Paddle (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Let's Go to Prison (2006), and Hit and Run (2012), the last of which he also wrote and directed, and the MTV practical joke reality series Punk'd (2003). He portrayed Crosby Braverman in the NBC comedy-drama series Parenthood from 2010 to 2015.

Shepard was born in Highland, Michigan, in suburban Detroit. He is the son of Laura LaBo, who worked at General Motors, and Dave Robert Shepard, Sr. (deceased), who was a car salesman. His parents divorced when he was 3 years old.

Shepard's mother ended up growing a huge business by the time he was in high school. She worked car shows with traveling events at race tracks. She started as a janitor on the midnight shift at General Motors, then worked in fleet management at the proving grounds where all the cars in Milford are designed, then hosted hospitality days for all the GM family members, eventually moving into public relations at an ad agency. She went back to GM, ending up owning four shops that managed publicity events for magazine journalists. From the age of 14 to 28, Shepard worked for his mother on the road, going from racetrack to racetrack. For about 2 years, Shepard had a stepfather who was an engineer on the Corvette. Shepard's mother has been married four times—Shepard said he's had three stepfathers.

According to Shepard, his mother named him for the rich playboy Dax (Diogenes Alejandro Xenos), in Harold Robbins' novel The Adventurers. He has an older brother, David Shepard, who lives in Oregon, and a younger half-sister, Carly Hatter, whom he cast in his 2012 film Hit and Run.