Shawn Levy
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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
Boy Band
Free Guy
Kin
Why Him?
Crater
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
Arrival
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Unsolved Mysteries
Birds of Prey
Love and Monsters
This Is Where I Leave You
The Perfect Couple
The Rocker
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Never Let Go
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Cheaper by the Dozen
Big Fat Liar
Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms
The Spectacular Now
I Am Not Okay with This
Dash & Lily
Last Man Standing
Real Steel
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Avengers: Doomsday
The Backrooms
The Future Of
The Darkest Minds
There's Someone Inside Your House
Cheaper by the Dozen
Date Night
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
Deadpool & Wolverine
Shadow and Bone
All the Light We Cannot See
Table 19
The Watch
The Internship
The Boogeyman
Sesame Street
Lost Ollie
Night at the Museum
Fist Fight
What Happens in Vegas
The Adam Project
Stranger Things
Star Wars: Starfighter
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