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Shawn Levy

1968-07-23 • Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed a collective $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, most notably for The Famous Jett Jackson, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films such as Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), and The Pink Panther (2006). He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise (2006–14). In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), and The Internship (2013), developed several comedy television pilots, and executive produced the first five seasons of the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Levy was an executive producer through the entire run of the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's first four seasons, as well as the sixth and seventh episodes of the final season. He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See (2023). Levy has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), with the latter emerging as his highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5

2026 · Movie

as Self - Executive Producer / Director / Guest Director Chapter 6 And 7

Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow

2025 · Movie

as Self - Executive Producer of 'Stranger Things'

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine

2024 · Movie

as Self - Co-Writer / Director / Producer

Welcome to Wrexham

2022 · TV Show

as Self

All Too Well: The Short Film

2021 · Movie

as Her Dad

What Happened, Brittany Murphy?

2021 · TV Show

as Self

Directors on Directors

2021 · TV Show

as Self

Robin's Wish

2020 · Movie

as Self

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'

2017 · Movie

as Self

Beyond Stranger Things

2017 · TV Show

as Self

Stranger Things

2016 · TV Show

as Morgue Worker

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015 · TV Show

as Self

Lennon or McCartney

2014 · Movie

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014 · TV Show

as Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014 · TV Show

as Self - Guest

The Internship

2013 · Movie

as Google Employee Trying to Take a Nap (uncredited)

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

2009 · Movie

as Infomercial Father

30 Rock

2006 · TV Show

as Scottie Shofar

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

2005 · Movie

as Hospital Intern

Cheaper by the Dozen

2003 · Movie

as Press Room Reporter

Punk'd

2003 · TV Show

as Self

Big Fat Liar

2002 · Movie

as Wolf Party Guest

Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth

1993 · Movie

as Travis

Made in America

1993 · Movie

as Dwayne

Shawn Levy

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