
Shawn Levy
3 FOLLOWERS • 71 CREDITS • JUL 23, 1968 • 57
Biography
Shawn Adam Levy (/ˈliːvaɪ/; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian 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 $3.5 billion worldwide.
Following early work as a television director, 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), and developed several comedy television pilots. Executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy produced the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
Since 2016, Levy has been an executive producer on the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He has directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's four seasons and the Netflix limited series All the Light We CanNot See (2023). Levy has recently 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.
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Beverly Hills, 90210

Stranger Things

China Beach

Welcome to Wrexham

30 Rock

21 Jump Street

Beyond Stranger Things

Tour of Duty

Step by Step

Lifestories

The Internship

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Big Fat Liar

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Cheaper by the Dozen

The Kiss

Liberace: Behind the Music

What Happened, Brittany Murphy?

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Production Credits

Real Steel

The Spectacular Now

Last Man Standing

Fist Fight

Dash & Lily

Arrival

The Future Of

The Backrooms

Never Let Go

Date Night

Free Guy

Sesame Street

Birds of Prey

There's Someone Inside Your House

Night at the Museum

Shadow and Bone

Why Him?

Star Wars: Starfighter

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Cheaper by the Dozen

This Is Where I Leave You

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

What Happens in Vegas

The Rocker

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Stranger Things

The Boogeyman

Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms

The Adam Project

Crater

The Darkest Minds

Boy Band

Big Fat Liar

Deadpool & Wolverine

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Unsolved Mysteries

All the Light We Cannot See

The Internship

Cheaper by the Dozen

Stranger Things: Tales from '85

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

The Perfect Couple

Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip

Avengers: Doomsday

Love and Monsters

I Am Not Okay with This

Table 19

The Watch

Kin

Lost Ollie
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