Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy is a Canadian fimmaker. Born July 23, 1968, in Montreal. Educated at Yale University and St. George's School of Montreal.
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What Wikidata says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 2568217060
- Described as
- Canadian fimmaker (born 1968)
- Other names
- Shawn Adam Levy
- Born
- July 23, 1968 · 2 references
- Born in
- Montreal · 1 reference
- Name at birth
- Shawn Adam Levy
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- screenwriter; film producer · 1 reference; television actor; film actor; film director · 1 reference; actor · 1 reference; television director; executive producer
- Education
- Yale University; St. George's School of Montreal; Timothy Dwight College; USC School of Cinematic Arts; University of Southern California
- Children
- Sophie Levy; Tess Levy
- Religion
- Judaism
- Wikipedias with a page
- 41
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1382840297
Shawn Adam Levy ( LEE-vee; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment.
Following early work as a television director, most notably for The Famous Jett Jackson, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like 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.
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) as well as additional films like, Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
- Born, in its opening lines
- July 23, 1968
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