Early life

Biggs was born in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. His mother, Angela (née Zocco), is a nurse, and his father, Gary Louis Biggs, is a shipping company manager. Biggs' father is of English and Italian descent and Biggs' mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his English ancestry. He was raised Roman Catholic.

He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he achieved success in tennis. Biggs attended Montclair State University for three weeks before dropping out.

Career

Biggs began acting at the age of five. In 1991, he made his television debut in the short lived FOX series Drexell's Class. In 1988, he received his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing in a TV commercial for Pathmark. He later recalled in a 2015 interview in TV Guide, "I remember I had to eat a doughnut in one of the shots. Over and over again. Awesome."

When Biggs was 12, he starred in a one-off HBO special, The Fotis Sevastakis Story, but due to licensing arguments, it was never aired. That same year, Biggs debuted on Broadway in Conversations with My Father with Judd Hirsch. He then starred in the daytime soap opera, As the World Turns, for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Best Younger Actor.

Biggs attended New York University briefly from 1996-1997, but soon afterwards, he returned to pursue acting. And so he would be seen again in another short lived television series, 1997's Camp Stories. He then starred in American Pie, which went on to become an international hit that has spawned three sequels (also starring Biggs) and four spinoffs (that did not star Biggs). After that, Biggs accepted starring roles in movies such as Loser in 2000, and others. In 2001, Biggs starred in the comedy Saving Silverman. He appeared in the 2002 Broadway production of The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock alongside Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone. In 2003, Biggs appeared as Jerry Falk in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Anything Else. In the 2004-2005 season Biggs portrayed an Orthodox Jew in Daniel Goldfarb's comedy, Modern Orthodox, staged at Dodger Stages theater in New York City. In 2006, Biggs was seen in the MTV reality show Blowin' Up with Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone which led to his participation in a hip-hop recording with Bay Area rapper E-40. Biggs returned to the stage in the fall of 2008 in Howard Korder's Boys' Life at New York City's Second Stage Theatre.

Biggs has appeared in several other films, including Texas Rangers, Scary Movie and Over Her Dead Body. In 2010, Biggs made his literary debut by contributing "Scratch-and-Sniff," a poem about growing up in New Jersey, to the anthology What's Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey (Word Riot Press, 2010), alongside writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Perrotta, Robert Pinsky, Gerald Stern and J. Robert Lennon. In 2012, he contributed to the anthology, Oy! Only Six? Why Not More: Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life. His contribution, "This is a Roman nose, OK?", was both ironic and prescient: Biggs is not Jewish and the editor of the anthology is Larry Smith, creator of Six-Word Memoirs, who a year later would be the basis for Bigg's Orange Is the New Black character Larry Bloom. He departed the series in February 2015 after two seasons.

Biggs reprised his role as Jim Levenstein in American Reunion, which was released on April 6, 2012. In the summer of 2012, Biggs took a job voicing Leonardo on Nickelodeon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He left the series during its second season and was temporarily replaced by Dominic Catrambone. Seth Green permanently took over the role from Biggs beginning in season 3. Biggs also plays the cowbell in the supergroup Yukon Kornelius.

In was announced in September 2014 that Biggs would star on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles. The play opened on March 19.

In December 2014, The Hollywood Reporter announced Biggs was cast to star in the comedy Drive, She Said. The story centers on an insecure expectant father (Biggs) who, unable to find work in his field, unwittingly accepts a job chauffeuring prostitutes (Janet Montgomery, Ashley Tisdale, Bria Murphy) around Los Angeles. Jenny Mollen, who is Biggs' wife in real life, appears as Biggs’ wife onscreen.

Personal life

Biggs has stated in interviews that he is sometimes cast as an explicitly or implicitly Jewish character, as he was in American Pie (other examples include his roles in Saving Silverman, Anything Else, and Orange is the New Black), though he is not Jewish himself.

In January 2008, he became engaged to his My Best Friend's Girl co-star, actress Jenny Mollen; they married on April 23, 2008. In July 2013, Biggs and Mollen announced they were expecting their first child. The couple welcomed their son, Sid Biggs, on February 15, 2014.

Biggs made headlines after writing vulgar jokes about Ann Romney and Janna Ryan on his Twitter account during the 2012 Republican National Convention. In March 2014, Biggs caused controversy when joking about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Four months later, Biggs again generated controversy when he joked about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. He also drew criticism in May 2014 when he mocked the death of The Bachelorette contestant Eric Hill. He has also been known for making sex abuse jokes about the Pope.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel	Boy
	The Boy Who Cried Bitch	Robert
1997	Camp Stories	Abby
1999	American Pie	Jim Levenstein	Young Hollywood Awards for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated - Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favourite Actor - Best Newcomer Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Actor Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Chemistry
2000	Boys and Girls	Hunter/Steve
	Loser	Paul Tannek	Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Wipeout Scene of the Summer
2001	Saving Silverman	Darren Silverman
	American Pie 2	Jim Levenstein	MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Best Line Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Comedy Film Actor
	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Himself	Cameo
	Prozac Nation	Rafe
2003	American Wedding	Jim Levenstein	Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Hissy Fit Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock
	Anything Else	Jerry Falk
2004	Jersey Girl	Arthur Brickman
2005	Guy X	Corporal Rudy Spruance	Taormina Film Fest Award for Best Actor
2006	Farce of the Penguins	Insecure Penguin
	Eight Below	Charlie Cooper
	Wedding Daze	Anderson
2007	I'm in Hell	Nick	TV movie, also producer
	The Glitch	Alan	Short film
2008	Over Her Dead Body	Dan Sianidis
	My Best Friend's Girl	Dustin
	Lower Learning	Tom Willoman
2009	Kidnapping Caitlynn	Max	Short film
2009	Turtles Forever	Leonardo (voice)	Crossover
2010	The Third Rule	Don	Short film
2011	Grassroots	Phil Campbell
2012	American Reunion	Jim Levenstein	Executive Producer; Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Comedy
2016	Amateur Night	Guy	Post-Production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991-1992	Drexell's Class	Willie Trancas	Series regular; 14 episodes
1994-1995	As the World Turns	Pete Wendall	Nominated - Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series Nominated - Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Male Newcomer
1997	Total Security	Robbie Rosenfeld	7 episodes
2002	Off Centre	Rick Steve	Episode: "The Good, the Bad and the Lazy"
2004	Frasier	Dr. Hauck	Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle: Part 2"
2005	Will & Grace	Baby Glenn	Episode: "The Hole Truth"
2006	Blowin' Up	Himself	Episode: "The Break-Up"
2009	Happiness Isn't Everything	Jason Hamburger	CBS pilot, also producer
2011	Mad Love	Ben Parr	Main cast & producer; 13 episodes
2012-2014	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Leonardo Rat Man Freak	Main cast, voice (Seasons 1-2) Episode: "Of Rats and Men"; Voice
2012-2013	The Good Wife	Dylan Stack	2 episodes
2012	8 Out of 10 Cats	Himself	Guest appearance, 1 episode
2013-2014	Orange Is the New Black	Larry Bloom	Main cast, 21 episodes Satellite Award for Best Cast - Television Series Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
2014	Hollywood Game Night	Himself	Episode: "Game Night: Behind Bars"
2014	Deadbeat	Reed Kelly	1 episode

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
2002	The Graduate	Benjamin Braddock	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
2015	The Heidi Chronicles	Scoop Rosenbaum	Music Box Theatre

Music video

Year	Title	Artist	Role
2000	Teenage Dirtbag	Wheatus	Title character

[ Source: Wikipedia ]