Life and career

Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec to Jewish parents. As a teenager, he attended St. George's High School and Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in New York. Levy graduated from Yale University in 1989 majoring in Performing Arts. Levy has a production deal with 20th Century Fox. He produced the 2012 Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill comedy The Watch, which was directed by Akiva Schaffer, and has over a dozen projects in development for production in the near future. These include Rosaline, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Berenstain Bears, Sesame Street, 10 Best Days of My Life, Fight Before Christmas, Alone for the Holidays, Mr. Men, Fancy Nancy, King Kong, The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto, The 39 Clues: The Movie, and The Deadliest Warrior. His newly formed television company, 21 Laps/Adelstein, produced the ABC hit Last Man Standing with Tim Allen. He has also been announced as the director of Fox's new Frankenstein adaptation, the James Cameron-produced 3D sci-fi remake Fantastic Voyage and the film version of Minecraft.

Levy's acting debut was in Zombie Nightmare (1986), a low-budget horror film in which he portrayed the character Jim Bratten, the leader of a group of teenagers and secondary antagonist. The film is best known for being featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also appeared in the 1988 Liberace: Behind the Music, as a post-Scott Thorson acquaintance of Liberace. His television resume consists of a guest spot on 21 Jump Street, a recurring role on Beverly Hills, 90210, and more recently, a role on 30 Rock as TV Producer Scottie Shofar.

He is known professionally as Shawn Levy, not to be confused with Shawn Anthony Levy, the American film critic and author who also signs his work as Shawn Levy.

Levy is married to Serena, with whom he has four children. Levy is Jewish.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Actor	Role	Notes
1986	Zombie Nightmare	No	No	Yes	Jim Bratten
1987	Wild Thing	No	No	Yes	Paul
	Liberace: Behind the Music	No	No	Yes	Glenn
1991	Our Shining Moment	No	No	Yes	J.J.
1993	Made in America	No	No	Yes	Dwayne
1997	Address Unknown	Yes	No	No		Cameo appearance
	Just in Time	Yes	No	Yes	Photographer	Cameo appearance
2001	Jett Jackson: The Movie	Yes	Yes	No		Television film
2002	Big Fat Liar	Yes	No	Yes	Wolf Party Guest	Cameo appearance
	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	No	Yes	No
2003	Just Married	Yes	No	No
	Cheaper by the Dozen	Yes	No	Yes	Press Room Reporter	Cameo appearance
2005	Cheaper by the Dozen 2	No	Yes	Yes	Hospital Intern
2006	The Pink Panther	Yes	No	No
	Night at the Museum	Yes	Yes	No
2008	What Happens in Vegas	No	Yes	No
	The Rocker	No	Yes	No
2009	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	Yes	Yes	Yes	Guy in Commercial	Cameo appearance
	The Pink Panther 2	No	Yes	No		Executive producer only
2010	Date Night	Yes	Yes	No
2011	Real Steel	Yes	Yes	No
2012	The Watch	No	Yes	No
	The Spectacular Now	No	Yes	No
2013	The Internship	Yes	Yes	Yes	Guy in Nap Pod
2014	This Is Where I Leave You	Yes	Yes	No
	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	No	Yes	No
	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	Yes	Yes	No
2016	Story of Your Life	No	Yes	No
	Why Him?	No	Yes	No
2017	Table 19	No	Yes	No
	Fist Fight	No	Yes	No

Television

Year	Title	Credited as				Episode(s)
		Director	Producer	Actor	Role
1989	China Beach	No	No	Yes	Lieutenant	"Dear China Beach"
1989-90	Tour of Duty	No	No	Yes	SP4 Budd Sills	2 episodes
1990	21 Jump Street	No	No	Yes	Lance	"Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom"
	Lifestories	No	No	Yes	Luke Conforti	"Art Conforti"
1993	Beverly Hills, 90210	No	No	Yes	Howard Banchek	2 episodes
	Step by Step	No	No	Yes	Daniel	"Way Off-Broadway"
1996-98	The Secret World of Alex Mack	Yes	No	No		6 episodes
1997-98	The Journey of Allen Strange	Yes	No	No		3 episodes
1998-99	Lassie	Yes	No	No		4 episodes
1998	First Wave	Yes	No	No		"Marker 262"
1998-99	Animorphs	Yes	No	No		5 episodes
1998-03	The Famous Jett Jackson	Yes	No	Yes	Producer	47 episodes
2000	In a Heartbeat	Yes	No	No		2 episodes
2002	Do Over	Yes	No	No		"The Block Party"
	Birds of Prey	Yes	No	No		"Nature of the Beast"
2006	Pepper Dennis	Yes	Yes	No		"Pilot"
2009	30 Rock	No	No	Yes	Scottie Shofar	"The Problem Solvers"
2011-16	Last Man Standing	No	Yes	No		79 episodes
2014	Cristela	No	Yes	No		"Pilot"
2016	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Yes	No	No		"Kimmy Drives a Car!"
	Stranger Things	Yes	Yes	No

Recurring collaborators

Actor	Big Fat Liar (2002)	Just Married (2003)	Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)	The Pink Panther (2006)	Night at the Museum (2006)	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	Date Night (2010)	Real Steel (2011)	The Internship (2013)	This Is Where I Leave You (2014)	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
Rose Byrne									N	N
Steve Coogan					N	N					N
Tina Fey							N			N
Timmy Fitzpatrick	N	N
Michael Bryan French	N									N
John Gatins	N							N
Ricky Gervais					N	N					N
Amy Hill	N		N
Taran Killam	N	N
Ashton Kutcher		N	N
Steve Martin			N	N
Mickey Rooney					N	N					N
Ted Rooney	N		N
Dax Shepard		N	N						N
Ben Stiller					N	N					N
Robin Williams					N	N					N
Owen Wilson					N	N	N		N		N

[ Source: Wikipedia ]