Jason Biggs Biography
Summary
"Jason Matthew Biggs" (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor who obtained wide fame in 1999 for his role as Jim Levenstein in the "American Pie" series of teen films.
Biography
Early life
Biggs was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey to Angela, a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company manager. He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey and attended high school there.
Career
Biggs began acting at the age of five. In 1991, he made his television debut in the short lived Fox network series "Drexell's Class". He also made a one-off HBO special, "The Fotis Sevastakis Story", but due to licencing arguments, it was never aired. That same year, Biggs debuted on Broadway in "Conversations with My Father", which helped pave the way for Biggs to participate in the daytime soap opera, "As the World Turns". He was nominated for the award of Best Younger Actor at the daytime Emmy awards for his role in that soap.
Biggs attended New York University briefly from 1996-1997, but soon afterwards, he returned to pursue his acting. And so he would be seen again in another short lived television series, 1997's "Camp Stories". He went on to make "American Pie", which went on to become an international hit that has spawned two sequels. After that, Biggs accepted starring roles in movies such as "Loser" in 2000, and others. In 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 and was for the most part viewed as the antagonist, creating a beef of sorts with Kennedy and Stone. However, when Kennedy and Stone had a minor feud, Stone befriended Biggs, leading Stone to record a hip-hop diss record against Kennedy entitled 'Fuck Jamie Kennedy'. The song featured Bay Area rap artist E-40 and Biggs himself.
Personal life
Biggs has joked in interviews about the fact that he is often cast as an explicitly or implicitly Jewish character, as he was in "American Pie" (other examples include Darren Silverman or Jerry Falk), although he is of Italian-Catholic background.
On a recent interview with UK youth programme T4 (Channel 4), Biggs stated that he was 'recently single'.
According to US Weekly, he is newly inlove with his recent costar, American Actress, Jenny Mollen.
While Acting in 1994 he worked at Subway Subs & Salads in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Filmography
"The Boy who Cried Bitch" (1991, "Robert")
"Drexell's Class" (1991, Television series, "Willie Trancas")
"As the World Turns" (1994-1995, soap opera, "Peter Wendall")
"Camp Stories" (1997, television series, "Abby")
"American Pie" (1999, movie, "Jim")
"Boys and Girls" (2000, movie, "Steve")
"Loser" (2000, movie, "Paul Tannek")
"Saving Silverman" (2001, movie, "Darren Silverman")
"American Pie 2" (2001, movie, "Jim")
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" (2001, movie Himself)
"Prozac Nation" (2001, movie, "Rafe")
"American Wedding" (2003, movie, "Jim")
"Anything Else" (2003, movie, "Jerry Falk")
"Jersey Girl" (2004, movie, "Arthur Brickman").
"Eight Below" (2006, movie, "Charlie Cooper")
"Guy X" (2006, movie, "Rudy Spruance")
"Blowin' Up" (2006, Television reality series, "himself")
"Wedding Daze" aka "The Pleasure of Your Company" (2006, movie, Anderson)
"Farce of the Penguins" (2007, straight-to-dvd movie, Insecure Penguin)
"How I Met My Boyfriend's Dead Fiancee (2007, movie, Dan)
(Jason Biggs 2007 short film) on "Funny Or Die"
Credit
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