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Shawn Levy
Producer, Director, Actor, WriterBorn July 23, 1968 (56 years)
Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor, and founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. He has worked across genres and is perhaps best known as the director of the Night at the Museum film franchise and the primary producer of the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar and Just Married before directing Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther, and Night at the Museum film franchises. In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night and Real Steel, developed several comedy television pilots, and executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, which earned 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. He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See. Most recently, he has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
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Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar and Just Married before directing Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther, and Night at the Museum film franchises. In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night and Real Steel, developed several comedy television pilots, and executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy was a producer on the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, which earned 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. He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See. Most recently, he has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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| 2025 | |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | The Perfect Couple (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | All the Light We Cannot See (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | |
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| 2022 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Lost Ollie (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | The Future Of (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Cheaper by the Dozen · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Shadow and Bone (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Dash & Lily (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | |
| 2020 | Unsolved Mysteries (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | I Am Not Okay With This (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Imaginary Mary (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Stranger Things (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Cristela (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Rogue · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Last Man Standing (2011) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
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| 2009 | The Pink Panther 2 · as Executive Producer |
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| 2006 | Pepper Dennis (TV Series) |
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| 2002 | Birds of Prey (TV Series) |
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| 2001 | Jett Jackson: The Movie · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | The Famous Jett Jackson (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1985 | The Berenstain Bears (1985) (TV Series) |