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