Jeff Daniels Cast in Major Role for Shrinking Season Three

Apple TV+'s Shrinking adds Emmy winner Jeff Daniels to the cast for season three.Jeff Daniels will guest star in the comedy series' third season, playing Jimmy's (Jason Segel) father. The two-time Emmy winner joins a cast that also includes Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley; co-creator Brett Goldstein had a recurring role in season two.



Daniels (pictured) recently starred in the Netflix miniseries A Man in Full . While he has appeared in a number of comedic films, most notably the Dumb and Dumber films, Shrinking will mark Daniels’ first television role in a comedy series (he has done voice work for Frasier and Family Guy ).

Details of how Jimmy’s father will enter the series are being kept under wraps for now. Season two ended with Jimmy forgiving the drunk driver (Goldstein) who caused the accident that left him a widow — and himself for how he had previously handled his relationship with his daughter, Alice (Lukita Maxwell).

“You want Jimmy to get to the point where he would leave it all behind for Alice, including his therapy practice and all that,” Segel revealed at the end of season 2. “I think that’s what makes it the primary relationship. So much of it, to me, is about getting that dynamic the right size and wading through these different combinations of who is parenting who at what moment, until finally, it ends up where it’s supposed to be, where Jimmy is taking care of his daughter because he failed so spectacularly at that when the thing happened.

A relationship between a parent and a child should be built on this idea that when the thing happens, you will be protected and taken care of by your parents, and Jimmy ran away. And so, for me, a huge part of this character arc is Jimmy making right by that, because everything else is forgivable, except maybe that.”