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Shawn Levy
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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As director
Star Wars: Starfighter
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Adam Project
Free Guy
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
This Is Where I Leave You
The Internship
Real Steel
Date Night
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Monkey Mischief
Night at the Museum
The Pink Panther
Cheaper by the Dozen
Just Married
Big Fat Liar
Jett Jackson: The Movie
Stray Dog
Address Unknown
Just in Time
Broken Record
Backwards
Boy Band
Somewhere Out There
As actor
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
All Too Well: The Short Film
Robin's Wish
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
Lennon or McCartney
The Internship
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Cheaper by the Dozen
Big Fat Liar
Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
Made in America
Brotherhood of the Gun
Our Shining Moment
The Kiss
Liberace: Behind the Music
Wild Thing
Zombie Nightmare
The Vindicator
Miles to Go…